Crypto Winter or Spring Revival? Take CoinDesk's State of Blockchain Survey

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After a historic 2017, the cryptocurrency markets took a decided downturn in Q1. Bitcoin, ethereum, litecoin - and most major cryptocurrencies - saw declines in a variety of metrics: exchange volumes, transaction counts, and, of course, price.

Saw the decline as confirmation that 2017 was a mirage and that bitcoin "Ought to be outlawed," while Warren Buffett.

Ignored lowered prices to suggest "The world ultimately will have a single currency...[and] that it will be bitcoin." Peter Thiel.

Issued a report that stressed bitcoin's usefulness as a crisis currency.

There was more bad news: Coincheck experienced a huge hack.

Several banks even went so far as to ban crypto purchases with credit cards, and the most heavily trafficked websites in the world all banned crypto-related ads.

Announcing plans to migrate its entire $9 billion loyalty program over to a cryptocurrency.

As an alternative to the embedded survey, just click the link below:TELL US HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE STATE OF BLOCKCHAIN - WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK. The results of the survey will be analyzed and published in CoinDesk Research's forthcoming State of Blockchain Q1 2018 report.

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