Teaching Bitcoin often skips the most important parts: receiving, responsibility, and friction.
Most onboarding starts with “install this wallet” and ends with people clicking buttons they don’t really understand.

I’m experimenting with a different approach for people close to me.

The experiment:

I hand them an NFC tag with a very simple message:

“Here are your first sats.
Learn Bitcoin, create an on-chain wallet and a Lightning wallet, and when you know how, withdraw them.
Once you succeed, send me back 5 sats to prove you can use it.
From then on, I’ll start sending you sats periodically.”

How it works (technically)
• The NFC points to an LNURL-Withdraw (temporary, conscious custody).
• No step-by-step instructions.
• No recommended wallet.
• No manual to follow — there are already plenty of good ones online.

The NFC doesn’t teach.
It just creates the problem.

What this forces them to learn
• That receiving comes before spending.
• How invoices work.
• The difference between on-chain and Lightning.
• That Bitcoin is not an app, and wallets are interchangeable clients.
• That responsibility is not optional.

The second step (sending back 5 sats) is not about the amount — it’s about demonstrating control.

Along the way, the same doubts and questions we all had inevitably appear. That’s where the real learning happens.

What this is not
• Not gamification.
• Not “Bitcoin for kids”.
• Not a growth hack.

What I’m aiming for:
• minimal but real friction
• sovereignty from the start
• understanding before usage

Limitations (acknowledged)
• LNURL-Withdraw is custodial.
• The setup is not meant to scale.
• It’s an educational tool, not a perfect model.

Those limitations are explicit and part of the discussion.

Open question

How would you improve or redesign this experiment to make it:
• more sovereign,
• still simple,
• without removing the necessary learning friction?

I’m especially interested in concrete alternatives or similar experiments you’ve already tried.