it's all a virtue signaling and manipulation

At least for a while, he claimed to have run most things through credit cards and paid those balances with btc.

So, he was still using fiat rails, but not holding any positive balances.

Supposedly. He’d always show his bank account having $0 on his shows and how he lives only on Bitcoin. But then he started pushing his Bitcoin backed loans service and uses that instead. Who really knows.