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title: 'Project Horizon: Bitcoin Core user research'

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# Project Horizon: Bitcoin Core user research

## Abstract
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## Methods
... qualitative ... ethnographic interviews, surveys... twitter ...

- Survey 400 respondants
    - Survey templates
        - [ ] Jamaal to send
- Field Guide / Interviews
    - Common questions
        - [ ] Jamaal to send

## Result
- The most interesting and helpful things for design comes when there is a comfortable relation between the researcher and participants.
- Challenges conduct remote user research in the time of COVID.
- Remote research faces some challenges with building trust and rapport with someone, so they are willing to share information with the interviewer.
- It's difficult to pick up how people react non-verbally for instance which made this project difficult.
- If there is nothing challenging or interesting coming from the research then it would almost be better to do secondary research.

### Insights, data and context

1. BTC Core Wallet is often quickly abandoned by new GUI users
1. The primary function of a wallet for most ardent bitcoiners, is saving and safeguarding value
1. For those transacting in Bitcoin, Core doesn’t fulfill accounting, mobility, convertibility or privacy needs
1. Simplified transactions/UTXO management can ease accounting challenges and enable quiet privacy preservation
1. Developers are the primary active users of BTC Core Wallet, and not for the GUI 
1. People largely run nodes for non-tx based reasons: for goodwill and to learn/experiment (and on separate hardware)
1. Open source products elevate trust, and can exasperate the fear of experiencing technical challenges with no support system
1. Lack of standards infrastructure may be holding back developers and great UX

### Rationale

#### Churn
- responses
- quotes

##### Possible solutions

#### Savings
- responses
- quotes

##### Possible solutions

#### Accounting, mobility, convertibility and privacy needs
- responses
- quotes

##### Possible solutions

#### Managing funds; Privacy, UTXOs, Labels
- responses
- quotes

Eimitate assocationss of their utxo.

Wanted it to be easier to manage someone elses funds.
> Example quote

##### Solutions
- Putting transactions on hold.
- Freezing funds, putting them aside.

#### Developer needs
- responses
- quotes

##### Possible solutions

#### Learning and experimentation
- responses
- quotes

##### Possible solutions

#### Open source: Trust and fears
- responses
- quotes

##### Possible solutions

#### Standards
- responses
- quotes

##### Possible solutions
