He's talking to normies and to statists and to the state agents. He's playing a Machiavellian game with them. He wants to remain in their good graces and prevent the state growing suspicious and jealous of his company. He's sneaking Bitcoin in and trying to preserve his status as relatively untouched by the state. It may actually be a defense. It is also possible (and probable) that he is ideologically captured and believes that governments are indeed inevitable and that you can keep the state on your side indefinitely without it usurping your industry.