I have a friend I've tried orange-pilling before, bit he wasn't ready, so I didn't insist.
However, he seems more interested now.
His Bitcoin experience is limited to buying a small amount of corn on Binance and forgetting about it for a few years. About 2 years ago he told me the phone he had Binance on was broken, he had moved to a new phone and asked me if I could help him regain access to his account (for which he couldn't remember his password) so he could sell it.
That was a facepalm / blood curdling moment for me, even though I didn't show it. I was at the stage of self-custodying my corn in cold storage, with the seed phrase engraved on steel plates and a passphrase, and here he is, losing access to his Binance IOUs he believes to be bitcoin just because he can't remember his password...
Now, he mostly sees Bitcoin as a way to get rich. That's understandable, but I'd like to show him that Bitcoin is much more than that.
He is 'awake' to the fact the current system is broken and is a bit of a conspiracy theorist, perhaps too indiscriminately and without enough critical thinking.
I have a technical background and am fascinated by how Bitcoin works, the blockchain, mining, signatures, the UTXO model etc. But I don't want to overwhelm him with all that just yet.
He doesn't even use a desktop or laptop, only a smartphone. And I'm afraid self-custody is something he's not ready for yet.
I was thinking I could start with LN. He could install WoS and I'd show him some cool, practical stuff, like send him some sats using QR codes, using amounts small enough that even if he loses it all it won't matter. To show him the use cases and simplicity before getting into the theory.
(FYI I'm running a full Bitcoin node and Electrs, but not a lightning node, so can't be an LN Uncle Jim)
What do you guys think? Can you suggest other concepts that are good for the first few lessons, or content, like articles or video, preferably ones that don't require a long attention span? I have a lot I'd happily share with him, buy it's too much for his (for now) moderate level of interest and willingness to engage.