1. This is a thread on "don't ask for permission but rather for forgiveness."
On Jun 8th, I bought my parents round-trip business class tickets to Mexico and I paid in $ETH, which is down significantly now.
I had my ETH stored in a crypto bank, so I had to withdraw to pay.
2. I chose to pay in $ETH b/c of the escalation in censorship in the Ethereum community w/ #ENS canceling long-time valued employees and Metamask & Uniswap blacklisting Ethereum addresses w/ Russian IP addresses.
3. When I initially spoke w/ my parents after buying them the tickets w/o their permission, it was unclear whether they would actually come despite being business class tickets.
However, today the test requirement to re-enter the USA was lifted & they...