I was active on LessWrong in '09-10 (and not-as-active until '14). Bitcoin was mentioned rarely. Hal Finney and Wei Dai themselves barely talked about it there,

I was active on LessWrong in '09-10 (and not-as-active until '14). Bitcoin was mentioned rarely. Hal Finney and Wei Dai themselves barely talked about it there, if at all. IIRC they didn't mention it until a few years later. My awareness of Bitcoin came from various other tech/programmer forums. I mined 0.7 BTC in early 2011 and held it until a few months ago. Not life-changing, but certainly the biggest ROI on anything I've ever had by a few orders of magnitude. But my point is I don't remember becoming interested in Bitcoin because anyone on LW was talking about it. They weren't. Even though I regularly interacted with Finney and Dai, I didn't even know they had anything to do with cryptocurrency until last year. Edit: To be clear, I'm adding context, not arguing with the article. Yvain/Scott was certainly there.