Current bitcoin fees are 17 cents. Not anywhere near weekly salary.
Regardless, they don't need to use bitcoin for their day to day transactions. Just somewhere to put their savings that won't be inflated away. USDC would make much more sense of course.
You know you can hold USDC on crypto networks? The value is stable at $1, so its not an investment, just a way to park your funds. I'm certain FTX had lots of users holding UDSC. Someone could have had their savings in USDC on FTX.
Crypto is one of the only markets where someone with virtually zero investment can become very rich. It's not easy, but smart traders can make a lot of money. You are not doing that at the casino.
He has a deep understanding of the technology so wouldn't be interested in crypto why?
There are lots of builders constantly creating things in the web3 space. Maybe you should re-examine your opinion of crypto if you see smart people involved and can't understand why they would be interested
maybe you are just stupid?