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Quiz

Tool: Kahoot

Questions

  1. Around which date will the next halving/halvening happen?
    • a) April 30, 2020
    • b) May 13, 2020
    • c) June 15, 2020
    • d) May 15, 2022
  2. What notation is this? or_d(c:pk(A),and_v(vc:pk_h(B),older(144)))
    • a) Bitcoin script
    • b) Policy script
    • c) Miniscript
    • d) Stack Script
  3. Which are NOT use-cases for Partially Signed Bitcoin Transactions (PSBT)?
    • a) Hardware-wallets
    • b) Multipath routing
    • c) Multisig setups
    • d) Mining
  4. Which method of peer discovery was removed in bitcoind 0.8 in 2013?
    • a) DNS seeds
    • b) Hardcoded IPs
    • c) IRC
    • d) Asking other nodes with “getaddr”
  5. Which soft fork would make the eltoo udate scheme possible in the Lightning network?
    • a) OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY
    • b) NODE_NETWORK_LIMITED
    • c) Schnorr/Taproot
    • d) SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  6. Why does the Lightning network use port 9735 by default?
    • a) it represents the “High voltage” emoji in Unicode
    • b) it was the BTC price in Dollar when the port was selected
    • c) it was the lowest available port
    • d) it represents “Fulmo” when translated to binary and back
  7. When was the first Bitcoin Stammtisch at Room77 on the first Thursday of the month?
    • a) August 4, 2010
    • b) August 4, 2011
    • c) August 4, 2012
    • d) August 4, 2013
  8. Which letter can be inserted into a bech32 address to exploit its recently discovered weakness?
    • a) p
    • b) o
    • c) q
    • d) n
  9. Which ones of the following are proposed BIPs included in the Taproot proposal?
    • a) BIP Schnorr
    • b) BIP Taptweak
    • c) BIP Tapscript
    • d) BIP Tapleaf
  10. Where do you find the notes for this meetup?
    • a) bitdevs.berlin
    • b) bitdevsberlin.org
    • c) bitdevs.org/berlin
    • d) bitdevsberlin.com

Answers

  1. b
  2. c
  3. b, d
  4. c
  5. d
  6. a
  7. b
  8. c
  9. a, c
  10. a