How well do you really know crypto?

How the tool counts

Twelve questions, four topic fields with three questions each: basics, chain, security, and law and tax. Every right answer is worth exactly one point, a wrong one takes nothing away, and there is no time limit. The total gives you the level: zero to five points is Beginner, six to nine points Intermediate, ten to twelve points Expert. The four bars in the result show how many of the three questions per field you got right. From the two weakest fields the tool picks the reading tips. The only thing saved is your last score, and it is saved in the memory of your own browser. Nothing goes to a server, there is no sign-up, no analysis across several people and no leaderboard.

The figures behind the answers

Every explanation in the quiz has a source: the wording of the law, the wording of the regulation, the whitepaper, the technical standard or the documentation of the project in question. The table below matches each topic field to its source so that you can read every statement for yourself.

Two answers deserve a footnote. First the 21 million: the arithmetic limit is 20,999,999.9769 Bitcoin, because the reward is paid out in whole satoshi and rounded down along the way. That is why the quiz says "just under 21 million". Second the 1,000 euro under section 23 (3) sentence 5 of the German Income Tax Act: that is a threshold, not an allowance. If your total gain from private disposals in the calendar year reaches 1,000 euro or more, the full amount is taxable, not only the part above the line. Up to and including 2023 the line sat at 600 euro. These tax rules apply in Germany, and readers elsewhere are covered by their own national rules.

Where the quiz stops

Twelve questions with four answers each are a sample. Someone who guesses gets three answers right on average, so a low score says little about real gaps and a high one says little about practice. The quiz tests facts, not skill: whether you keep a seed phrase safe, judge a transaction fee properly or spot an attempted fraud cannot be measured with four answer cards. The legal questions are deliberately broad as well. They repeat the wording of the law and replace no advice on an individual case, for example once staking, lending, swaps between crypto-assets or a change of residence come into play. And figures age: tax thresholds move with every annual German tax act, and the European regulation is being filled in by technical standards. The sources above therefore matter more than the result.

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