-The blockchain is the brilliant technological innovation, and the source of Bitcoin's intrinsic value.
-Bitcoin is merely the first app developed on this new protocol layer (blockchain). Think of it like HTTP.
-The blockchain is the birth of Internet 2.0 and Money 3.0
-Will make you insanely wealthy, if you want.
-Will change the way human beings think about money forever
-Is a pandora's box that has been opened and can never be closed.
-Even if bitcoin were to die (spoiler: it won't), crypto would live on in some form. Fiat's days are numbered.
-Could very well be the beginning of the end of perpetual fiat-fueled nation-state war.
-Will make your corrupt, useless piece of shit government and their artificially propped-up funny-money obsolete and worthless, in time.
-Represents the dawn of the true information age, the age of reason. As long as we don't have a nuclear apocalypse in the near future...

Read this: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths
and this: https://bitcoin.org/en/faq
and this: http://historiesofthingstocome.blogspot.com/2014/07/bitcoin-economy-of-eternal-now.html

Read Satoshi's original whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhe61JaNFLU (Bitcoin 101)
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHUPPYzzZrI (Why Bitcoin's growth is normal)
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq8yOMl8IUs (Andreas Antonopoulus at Maker Fair in Detroit)
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaPgfErzeu0 (Bitcoin the Organism with Jeff Garzik)
and this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joITmEr4SjY (Bitcoin vs Political power with Stefan Molyneux)

Thank  you guys .

That faq is really helpful...

I will ask it at reddit as well later.

My thesis is from the views of Bitcoin users, potential Bitcoin users and the public.

So, your personal opinion will be really helpful to me.

My survey link:
https://uclinnovation.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_cusD4tZiYPh2kOF

I wanna know your expectation of Bitcoin....

What do think about its future?

what can it become in the future?

Survey completed.  One of the better surveys I have seen.  Asks a lot of relevant questions and really makes you think about where you stand on this technology.

I did the survey as well. I think the questions you are asking should be able to get you a good understanding.

You'll find that there's a lot of hype, err hope, but not a lot of fact.

If you want to investigate the future growth of Bitcoin I see the question being structured like this:

1) Measure future growth in terms of Adoption

2) Measure future growth in terms of value of BTC to USD/GBP/EUR

For item 1) you can find a lot of information on retailer adoption and infrastructure improvements (i.e., easier ways for people to get started using/transacting in Bitcoin).

For item 2) you should a) use standard principles of economics to understand how the greater supply of coins (up to the 21 million max) will influence the price (inflation), b) think about how the action of fiat inflation may impact the exchange rate, and c) use standard investment technical analysis (i.e., price trends, volume trends, and moving averages) to project how the price per BTC may grow or decline.

Asking for people's thoughts will get you a ton of great, optimistic opinions, but little fact that may be useful or required for a sound graduate paper.

One ask I have of you is to please post your paper on this forum so we can all benefit from your analysis.

Good luck with it, sounds like an interesting project!

Survey completed!

filled out your 30 question survery
hope that helps you

I filled out your survey in the old thread. Why did you make a new thread?
I hope my contribution helps you.

Hey bitcoinucl, I just completed your questionnaire.

I remember filling in a questionnaire for a grad student of UC Irvine some time (half a year) ago. Are you in contact with her. Do you have her results?

Are you interested in collaborations? I wrote a simple study of address reuse in the blockchain:
http://www.dtic.upf.edu/~jbarcelo/papers/20140704_User_Privacy_in_the_Public_Bitcoin_Blockchain/paper.pdf