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Trivia Answers History:
Question #1 ~ What was the highest peaked price for 1 BTC at any given time in history?
ANSWER IN DISPUTE ~ Mixed Answer... Is it $266 or $230?
Source by Maco ~ $230 @ https://www.tradingview.com/e/u4jxKre3/  and $266 @ http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg120zczsg2013-04-10zeg2013-04-13ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv
Previous answer #1: mscharleneb said, "Highest price for 1 BTC = $230 on  April 9 2013".
Previous answer #2: melon said, "$266".

Question #2 ~ What is the exact month and day of very first Bitcoin transaction?
Correct Answer #2 inbox said, "month: 2009-01-12"
Source Verified by Maco ~ http://blockexplorer.com/block/00000000d1145790a8694403d4063f323d499e655c83426834d4ce2f8dd4a2ee

Question #3 ~ Which month, day, and year valued 1.0 BTC at $1.00 USD at MTGOX?
Correct Answer #3 no winner. Next question-
Source Verified by Maco ~ February 9, 2011 ~ Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at MtGox. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History

Question #4 ~ Which is the top performing stock on BTCT.CO currently today? Name it...
Correct Answer #4 gweedo said, "Asicminer-pt"

Question #5 ~ [Open Question - more than one answer] Name a company that provides Merchant Tools & Services for Bitcoin Businesses that are looking to accept Bitcoins as a payment?
Correct Answer #5 melon said, "bitpay and MT.GOX" and canuckgal said, "Coinbase"

Question #6 ~ [Open To Multiple Answers] Name one or more Bitcoin Business
that allows its users to withdraw BTC to USD and deposit USD to BTC...
Correct Answer #6 gweedo said, "bitstamp" and mscharleneb said, "VirWoX ; Bitfloor"

Question #7 ~ How much money, on record, did Peter Thiel's Founders Fund company invest into the Bitcoin sector?=
Correct Answer #7 gweedo said, "$2 million http://southernalpha.com/general/atlantas-bitpay-raises-2m-from-thiels-founders-fund/ "
However, the wikipedia page says $3 million, and not sure if OpenCoin as mentioned, is apart of the Bitcoin Sector in question.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin "Interest in the bitcoin sector has arisen from investment funds, with recent Peter Thiel's Founders Fund investing US$3 million in the sector"

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266 usd even no cents (acc to to cmoody's ticker)
edit not sure if was for full btc though

Highest price for 1 BTC = $230 on  April 9 2013

  whers easiest place to find bit by bit info about the trade

Not sure exactly, I just googled to see what might show up.

Bitcointalk has plenty of information about bitcoin trade.  
I dont know if my answer was correct or not

$230 is correct - I updated with source via https://www.tradingview.com/e/u4jxKre3/

ah thank you maco.  Is there a prize for answering correctly?

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date of first bitcoin transaction: 2009-01-12

http://blockexplorer.com/block/00000000d1145790a8694403d4063f323d499e655c83426834d4ce2f8dd4a2ee

Highest price per bitcoin was around 266 usd/btc

You got Question #2 right... Added to correct answer Trivia History.

Show us source of $266 please

April 15, 2011

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg60zczsg2011-03-31zeg2011-05-18ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zl

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Question #3 ~ Which month, day, and year valued 1.0 BTC at $1.00 USD at MTGOX?

peak quoted price was 266 ...230 may have been the opening using ohlcv( o)pen (h)igh ( l)ow (c)lose (v)olume... just sayin' -source www.clarkmoody.com

edit tradingview shows a different opening but high (peak) is 266 on both bcz the stochastic candle closes differently on each I think

makes sense. The close was $230 tho which enabled people for trading. I am sticking with $230 as the high trade/exchange point. Your source is fine tho, it did hit $266.

Common people.. Someone needs to know the answer to this:
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Question #3 ~ Which month, day, and year valued 1.0 BTC at $1.00 USD at MTGOX?

Dude, I answered. 

It is incorrect according to an official source. Try again. It was in 2011.

bitcoincharts.com charts are incorrect?  Whatever, count me out.

February 9, 2011 ~   Bitcoin reached parity with the US dollar, touching $1 per BTC at MtGox.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History

Your question wasn't "when did it reach $1 for the first time"

Good point.. I will specify next time.

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Question #4 ~ Which is the top performing stock on BTCT.CO currently today? Name it...

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Question #4 ~ Which is the top performing stock on BTCT.CO currently today? Name it...

top performing as far as(*dollar price ,volume, percentage gain?) could be more specific?

i'll guess ASICMINER-PT by dollar value

edit ASICMINER-PT could drop 4 dollars and still be 9 cents better than the next so the site should show percntge gain to acknowledge true top performance...just my 2 cents

The winner... to this question is gweedo. (First) to answer correctly.

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Question #4 ~ Which is the top performing stock on BTCT.CO currently today? Name it...

You are Correct. Yes, I will be more specific next time. Thanks for the feedback.

thanks 4 posting that site although seems jumbled together yet professional

You are welcome. Yeah, they seem to have the Trading/Stocks side down.

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Question #5 ~ [Open Question - Could be more than one answer] Name a company that provides
Merchant Tools & Services for Bitcoin Businesses that are looking to accept Bitcoins as a payment?

bitpay

Bam! We got a winner. Yes, BitPay is one of the most specialized in Merchant service provider.

Anyone other companies you can think of?  There is one more that I know of..

Coinbase

Bam! Another one strikes with a correct answer. Adding canuckgal and melon to the winner list.

Is there one more company offering such service? Who would it be ???

gox actually has merchant tools also but theres so much hayte for gox on this forum  that I,m not sure how many merchants use it

and that is correct also. I don't know if people hate GOX here.. but they are another source. Melon X2 as the correct answer. Good job!

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Question #6 ~ [Open To Multiple Answers] Name one or more Bitcoin Business that lets you withdraw BTC to USD and deposit USD To BTC

Where are you guys getting $230 as the highest all time price?

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg120zczsg2013-04-10zeg2013-04-13ztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

It was actually my fault for not specifying. I use: https://www.tradingview.com/e/u4jxKre3/
I wonder why they are both different. TradingView is the leader for all major stocks like Google, etc.. and now Bitcoin.

bcz he didn't specify highest close or open as opposed to highest intraday high

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Hi there,
I actually found the answer of the highest price of bitcoin in april from here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Yes, so my sources were right.. I figured someone would find it too... however, I wonder if its on the bitcoin wiki?  https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/History
[edit: no, that site hasn't been updated since April 1, 2013]

- Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Answer  to Question #6:

VirWoX ; Bitfloor

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I know somebody who bought .67 BTC for 258.99980 from MtGox.

Ok, full disclosure.  It was me.   :'(

2013/04/10 07:26:49   In      0.67295229 BTC   0.80693771 BTC
BTC bought: [tid:1365600409587876] 0.67295229 BTC at $258.99980

Maybe not the peak, but not $230 either.

haha. You may have another chance... more questions coming up.

Correct by gweedo


and correct by mscharleneb

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Question #7 ~ How much money, on record, did Peter Thiel's Founders Fund company invest into the Bitcoin sector?

Please attach source if you can.

Love the idea in this thread!

Not sure if OpenCoin should count, but FF Angel is part of Founders Fund and put money into it.   http://www.crunchbase.com/company/opencoin

Yes, they invested more than $2 million in the 'bitcoin sector' source says, "Interest in the bitcoin sector has arisen from investment funds, with recent Peter Thiel's Founders Fund investing US$3 million in the sector" via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

I'll give it to gweedo as we don't know which is the other one.. or if they counting OpenCoin as an investment, unless there is proof OpenCoin is identified as the 'bitcoin sector'.

http://southernalpha.com/general/atlantas-bitpay-raises-2m-from-thiels-founders-fund/


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