Elon Musk's Influence on Cryptocurrencies Quiz
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What was the reason given by Elon Musk for Tesla not accepting payments in Bitcoin?

  • Lack of interest in Bitcoin
  • Regulatory issues
  • Concerns about security
  • Environmental concerns (correct)
  • How did the value of Bitcoin react after Elon Musk's statement about Tesla not accepting payments in Bitcoin?

  • Hit an all-time high
  • Hit a two-month low (correct)
  • Remained stable
  • Increased by 20 percent
  • What did Elon Musk state he was working on with developers of Dogecoin?

  • Creating a new digital currency
  • Promoting the use of fossil fuels
  • Developing a new electric vehicle
  • Improving system transaction efficiency (correct)
  • How did Dogecoin perform in the digital currency market after Elon Musk's statement about working with its developers?

    <p>Rallied by about 20 percent</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What was the concern raised by Elon Musk about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions?

    <p>Massive increase in fossil fuel use, especially coal</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How did the value of Bitcoin react after Elon Musk's statement about the rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions?

    <p>Triggered a downward spiral</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does an API stand for in the context of the text?

    <p>Application Programming Interface</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the purpose of a 'key' that developers receive when interacting with an API?

    <p>To act as a password for accessing the API</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a warning provided about using APIs?

    <p>Websites may limit access to data through their APIs</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is Yahoo's YQL language used for?

    <p>Standardizing data formats from different websites</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main concern when using an API to scrape data?

    <p>The potential for weird data formats from different websites</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What should developers do before using a website's API?

    <p>Check the terms and services of the website’s API</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What tool can you use to grab fields inside the HTML of a web page when there's no API available?

    <p>Firebug extension for Firefox</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which tool is robust but kind of slow for web scraping?

    <p>Beautiful Soup</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which tool provides access to the full HTML document for interaction and editing?

    <p>Firebug extension for Firefox</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which tool is super cool but doesn't parse JavaScript?

    <p>Mechanize</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which tool is good if you pine for the 1970s or 1992?

    <p>lynx</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which tool is recommended for grabbing what you want in a quick-and-dirty shell script, especially for a one-off grab?

    <p><code>curl</code> and <code>wget</code></p> Signup and view all the answers

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