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This survey is intended to gather data on the current state of blockchain.

Questions cover numerous topics including sentiment around bitcoin, ethereum, other cryptocurrencies, ICOs, regulation, and distributed ledger technology.

Results will be analyzed and published in CoinDesk Research's Q2 2017 'State of Blockchain' report on coindesk.com and may appear in CoinDesk marketing material.

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1. When was the first time you owned a digital asset?

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2. How many different digital assets do you currently own?

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3. Approximately how frequently do you make digital asset transactions?

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4. Do you own bitcoin?

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5. How do you feel about the current overall state of bitcoin?

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6. What do you compare bitcoin most to?

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7. Do you believe bitcoin's maximum block size limit should be raised above 1 MB in 2017?

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8. Do you believe bitcoin will experience a contentious hard fork or blockchain split in 2017?

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9. When do you think bitcoin's Lightning Network will be live?

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10. Do you own ether?

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11. How do you feel about the current overall state of ethereum?

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12. How do you feel about the current state of ethereum dapps?

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13. Which of the following do you consider to be the most positive aspect of ethereum today?

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14. Which of the following do you consider to be the most negative aspect of ethereum today?

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15. When do you think ethereum's Raiden Network will be live?

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16. Do you believe mining is currently too centralized?

  Strongly agree Moderately agree Slightly agree Neutral Slightly disagree Moderately disagree Strongly disagree
In bitcoin
In ethereum

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17. How do you believe mining will evolve in the future?

  Much more centralized Moderately more centralized Slightly more centralized About the same level of decentralization Slightly more decentralized Moderately more decentralized Much more decentralized
In bitcoin
In ethereum

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18. What sector of blockchain applications are you most bullish on?

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19. Do you believe ether will surpass bitcoin in terms of market cap in 2017?

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20. Have you ever participated in an ICO?

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21. If you have taken part in an ICO, what was the primary reason for your participation?

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22. If you have taken part in an ICO, what have you done with your tokens since (select all that apply)?

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23. If you have not taken part in an ICO, what has been the primary reason for your lack of participation?

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24. What is the most important factor when analyzing a potential blockchain ICO?

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25. I believe token issuers should cap ICO rounds (like not raising more than $10m or 100k ETH in a sale), as opposed to raising as much money as possible in one round.

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26. I believe token issuers should plan for several blockchain token sales (similar to startups raising traditional funding in rounds like “Seed”, “Series A”, “Series B”, etc.).

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27. I believe new blockchain projects should consider mixing traditional investment funding (like venture capital and angels) and ICOs.

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28. I am surprised that blockchain ICOs have outpaced VC funding thus far in 2017.

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29. Without the price rally in cryptocurrencies early this year, blockchain ICOs would not have raised more than VC.

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30. How do you think ICO issuers should hold the funds raised in a token sale?

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31. Which ICO do you believe had the best structure?

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32. I believe "institutional" money will control blockchain ICOs over "retail" investors in the future.

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33. Do you believe blockchain ICOs should be regulated like securities?

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34. Do you believe regulators will attempt to bring ICOs into a regulatory regime?

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35. Do you believe the SEC will ever take action against any past ICO?

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36. How much do you think ICOs will raise in total in 2017 (in billions of $)?

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37. Do you believe digital asset valuations are in a 'bubble'?

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38. When do you think the first digital asset based ETF will be live?

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39. How do you feel about the current overall state of Distributed Ledger Technology (sometimes called 'permissioned' or 'enterprise' blockchains)?

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40. Do you believe banks will ever issue their own form of digital asset?

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41. Do you believe governments will ever issue their own form of digital asset?

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42. How do you believe regulation will effect the proliferation of digital assets?

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43. How much do you know about the following?

  Almost nothing A bit A lot
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
Ripple
Hyperledger

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44. How do you think the price of the following will do in the rest of 2017?

  Go down a lot Go down a bit Stay about the same Go up a bit Go up a lot
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Ripple
Litecoin
Ethereum Classic
All cryptocurrencies combined

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