Every orange pill attempt should be tailor-made towards that person. It's best to not pick what you think is most important about Bitcoin. Pick what would make it most useful to them.

If they are older and concerned about inflation's effect on their fixed income, talk about it's scarcity resulting in an inflation hedge.

If they come from a country with poor human rights, mention how hard it is to confiscate, and how you can flee a country with your life savings as 12 words in your head.

If they are politically active, talk about it being unstoppable. You will never have to worry being deplatformed from financial services.

If they own a business, show how they can save money on transaction fees.

If they are a content creator, talk about innovative new monetization techniques are made possible only by Bitcoin.

No matter who they are, there is a way Bitcoin will improve their life. You just have to figure out which use case they most need.

Sorry bro, if you don't get it I don't have time to explain it yo you.

You're thinking past the sale and this is why people fall into the shitcoin honeypot. You are speaking from the position "bitcoin is money" and that is the hurdle people need to vault.

Why is bitcoin money? You first need to distinguish between currency and money, as Saylor has aided us to understand. Money is anything that is a store of value, whether it's a good or bad store of value doesen't change that its money. Currency could be money, but the currency we have today is not.

Our fiat currency is a system of debt dependent on agreements and trust that a person will work for this fiduciary medium and only because they trust other people will keep their indebtedness agreements and will need this paper to keep repay their promise. All this is dependent on a functional judiciary and a "way to keep people honest" with force.

Then you can explain why bitcoin is the only true limited quantity that comes into existence through application of energy and why any replica can only be a counterfeit.

Because exchanging/converting your local currency is your legit vote that ends every current and future senseless war; not doing so just means you’re a supporter of death and destruction. I can get that out in 30 seconds. That should warrant an increased allocation of time to pragmatically explain exactly how and why which cannot be effectively refuted.

Because the bank manager on the last floor froze my balance and used my money to pay a debt I didn't know I had. So I'm going there now to close my account and tell him to fuck off because I won't need a bank anymore.

Any currency has 3 functions - store of value, unit of account and a medium of exchange. Whether it be the dollar, euro, bitcoin, any piece of paper or even tulips can perform the last two functions. The issue with regular currency is with the first function. The value of currency is subject to centralized control essentially reducing the worth of your earnings and assets over time. Right to Property is an established human right. Ensuring that your property and earnings holds value and the value isn't subject to the whims and fancies of an external agent is key to maintaining personal liberties. This is where Bitcoin comes in. It's deflationary and decentralized by design. It promotes financial inclusion and is disruptive and cuts across borders. It has a revolutionary potential and it solves the fundamental problems of today's floating currencies

Because fuck the central banks, fuck the banks.

Money is already digital, and bitcoin is the only one that is provably difficult to create.

If I had to condense the entire Bitcoin argument down to a single elevator pitch, it would be this:

But really you should spend those 30 seconds trying to convince them to read The Bitcoin Standard, because nobody can shift their entire worldview on anything in 30 seconds.

Bitcoin is the base layer of a new decentralized internet.

Well its a hard money, meaning we are not increasing the amount of bitcoin like we are and continue to do with our dollars. Since we went off the gold standard in 1970 our dollars have lost purchasing power we don't see it though because we just see everything going up in price while our dollars still look the same in our bank account. Making it hard to save money when it should be easy its like your holding a bunch of ice in your hand and its slowly melting away although you can see it and feel it still it's slowly melting away.

Most secure way to store value (if you learn of course).

Bitcoin is money independent of state.

It works everywhere in the world, with minimum fees, and no one can stop it.

Similar to how VoIP changed international calls forever, Bitcoin is changing money forever.

Bitcoin shifts the power back to the user.

It's permissionless, you don't have to account to anyone to use a value transfer that's from and for everyone.

"Those who justify do not convince." - Lao Tsu.

The t-shirt is fine. Forget sales pitches.

Bitcoin = Freedom, thats it

Bitcoin is like cash, but digital. You can send money to anyone in the world, shop online, work remotely or store savings.

Like cash, you don't need corporate permission to use it (compared to Paypal). Bitcoin doesn't require a name or government ID, so it protects your privacy (compared to banking).

All you need to do is: Download any Bitcoin wallet to your phone/computer and buy Bitcoin e.g. with a Bitcoin ATM or Azteco voucher. Then you can send it to friends or family, spend it online (AcceptedHere.io, TheBitcoinCompany.com, t.me/BitcoinP2PMarketplace) or hold it as savings (deflationary).

(I have a longer "Introduction to Bitcoin" webpage here: https://anarkio.codeberg.page/bitcoin/ and some infographics here: https://ibb.co/album/ZL768g)

What convinced you? Was it a 30 second elevator pitch? I think first there has to be some genuine curiosity and willingness to at least temporarily suspend skepticism. Then I would say the bare minimum about what bitcoin is technically, basically like the abstract from the WP, and then point them to good resources if they want to learn more.

It is vital to understand that we have two monetary systems:

You'd be damned to ignore this reality and put all your eggs in one single basket. Know that each system has its strengths and weaknesses, study them, understand them and deploy your capital accordingly on both systems

It will at least 5x in next 5-10 years and potentially revolutionize how money works in the future.

First part gets them erect.

2nd part intrigued.

Anything else the eyes glaze over and you’ll lose them.

Here you go. Ask them to try to obtain bitcoin by force, court order, government decree. Ask them to obtain bitcoin in any way without the knowledge and consent of the educated individual.

In my experience saying anything like that or what I've seen in the other comments just makes you sound like a crazy conspiracy spreader anti-statist contrarian.

Not saying any of what was said here isn't the truth, it is. It's just not going to convince normies.

One thing I've used that works quite well is the 21 million argument. It's something most people don't know about bitcoin already and it always lights up a little bulb inside their head.

I outline how a payment processor could verify payments well enough, actually really well (much lower fraud rate than credit cards), in something like 10 seconds or less. If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.

Because Bitcoin raises your awareness to a new level. That is what it will probably do to you when you are ready.