He mentions in a Twitter exchange that he would take whatever equivalent amount in BTC too. Guess it is just telling that at this point in the real world dollar-amounts still make most sense for most people when bills need to be paid.

Describing Ben Arc as candy-ass bitcoiner does not really fit the image I have of him as having made A LOT of real-world impact to the Bitcoin field with his FOSS POS systems, Nostr development, etc, but I guess that's just a figure of speech.