I never was much of a trader, and have not exchanged USD/BTC since around $2.35, but...
This subforum was one of the ones I read most often. I'm almost certain that some of the material I absorbed from this source factored into some of my decisions about when to make purchases.
In some cases it was a negative association. For instance, when I saw
Proudhon getting vocal about how BTC was going to zero, that probably induced me to go ahead and pick up another hundred or so
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I'm sure that he was practicing reverse psychology and pocketed a lot of my USD however. All I can say is thanks to him...I collected many more BTC in the $2.?? range than I ever thought I would be holding even as a total.