I agree--there are some crypto geniuses here, in addition to the fact that Satoshi was one of the founding members.  I don't read news about crypto on any other site, as I have a pathological distrust of media even if it's not mainstream.  Pretty much everything I know about bitcoin (which isn't extensive) I've learned here.

The drama around bitcointalk is what keeps me coming, though.  This forum is like a bunch of people from all around the world arguing with each other, trying to scam each other, and it's like the wild west trying to keep a modicum of order.  That's what makes it fun for me and it's what I first noticed about the forum when I was just a lurker.

Why do people abbreviate bitcointalk as BTT anyway?  Not that there's a standard way of doing it, but BCT makes more sense to me.