Nic's Very Hard Bitcoin Holiday Quiz

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David Chaum's DigiCash was infamously slated to be integrated into Windows, before Chaum nixed the deal. Which edition of Windows was it?

Barry Silbert is known for founding DCG and Grayscale. What kind of business did he run pre-crypto?

Which of these projects is Zooko NOT affiliated with?

Which of these exchanges has Changpeng Zhao (CZ) NOT worked at?

Before launching Ethereum, what Bitcoin project did Vitalik Buterin cofound?

Before Bitcoin, Roger Ver ran an internet business from 1999 to 2012. What did he primarily sell?

What felony was Ross Ulbricht NOT convicted of?

What is the oldest continuously operating exchange in the industry?

Bitcoinica was an infamous Bitcoin derivatives exchange which operated from 2011 to 2012, run by the enigmatic Zhou Tong. How many times was Bitcoinica hacked?

BitMEX's parent company is named HDR Global Trading Limited. What does HDR stand for?

Bitfinex was originally built partially with the codebase of a defunct exchange. Which exchange was it?

What was the first dedicated Bitcoin exchange?

In 2009, NewLibertyStandard devised a first price of Bitcoin based on the electricity cost to mine BTC. What was the price NLS came up with in Oct. 2009?

How many duplicate transactions can be found in the Bitcoin blockchain?

How many times have miners failed to claim their full coinbase reward?

What is the size of the largest ever BTC transaction (in BTC terms)?

How many inputs (i.e., distinct UTXOs) are included in the most input-heavy transaction?

What text content is LukeJr famous for inserting into the blockchain?

How many BTC were created in the Aug. 2010 Value Overflow Incident?

At its peak, what share of daily BTC transactions were attributable to SatoshiDice?

When did Mt Gox open for business?

In June 2011, Mark Karpeles did an informal proof of reserve to demonstrate that Mt Gox was sufficiently reserved, what was the size of the transaction?

The Mt Gox parent company was named Tibanne Ltd. Who was Tibanne?

In 2013, the Department of Homeland Security seized Mt Gox funds in Delaware held by a large payment processor. Which one was it?

When Mt Gox was hacked, Mark Karpeles initially blamed the losses on what kind of exploit?

Launched in Aug. 2013, and raising 4,740 BTC, which was the very first Initial Coin Offering?

Announced in April 2011, and discussed by Satoshi on BitcoinTalk, what was the very first altcoin forked from Bitcoin?

What coin did LukeJr allegedly 51% attack into oblivion with his mining pool, Eligius?

Which of these coins has NOT suffered an inflation bug?

What was the first proof of stake coin?

Litecoin is forked primarily from which codebase?

Which of these coins did NOT conduct an airdrop to Bitcoin holders?

Which mining pool first hit 51% of hashrate, causing alarm among Bitcoiners?

How many BTC are held in physical Bitcoins (Casascius or BTCC mint)?

When Casascius coins inventor Mike Caldwell delivered his coins, he added bumper stickers with the following slogan:

Launched in August 2011, the Bitcoin Savings and Trust scam was a ponzi set up by Trendon Shavers ("Pirateat40"). What rate of interest did Trendon promise investors?

In 2011, Dan Kaminsky spent 1 BTC to leave a tribute to his friend Len Sassaman in the Bitcoin blockchain, as well as ASCII art of a Federal Reserve Chair. Which one?

What were the specifics of Laszlo Hanyecz's first pizza transaction in 2010?

Aside from pizzas, what is Laszlo Hanyecz known for?

What was the one-time fee for lifetime membership for the Bitcoin Foundation?

Which firm was the target of the first successful, externally reported double spend on Bitcoin netting 227 BTC in March 2013, during the resolution of the unintentional chainsplit?

In 2015, Marguerite deCourcelle, or @Coin_Artist, created a visual puzzle painting with embedded clues which contained a seed to a Bitcoin wallet containing 5 BTC. This puzzle was solved in Feb. 2018. What vanity phrase did the BTC address start with?

One week before his final post, Satoshi said "the swarm is headed towards us" regarding Bitcoiners' embrace of Wikileaks. How much BTC (in USD terms at today's prices) did Wikileaks collect in donations?

The Bitcoin Alert System was a since-deprecated means of broadcasting messages to all network clients. Satoshi held one key. Who were two other known key holders?