the main reason i'm partial to Platzer is that he is international. maybe that's too much of a simplification but i also think he's lived, breathed, and taken personal and financial risks in promoting Bitcoin.
Exactly. He has a personal stake in the system: he risked his business standing up for his (allegedly extremist) views, and it paid off for him, he had the diplomatic abilities to negotiate Bitcoin payment for all of his overheads. He can't have been so confrontational and uncompromising to achieve that.