Is not about the amount. The amount will always be viewed from a fiat maxi perspective. A nocoiner start the journey as a fiat maxi.

Do not waste valuable sats if is not ready to understand what really is receveing.

• https://darth-coin.github.io/general/21-bitcoin-orange-pills-en.html
• https://darth-coin.github.io/beginner/5-stages-became-bitcoiner-en.html

The best simple way to start with a boomer is with a NWC account. Yes are custodial accounts, but if you are a knowledgeable bitcoiner, you run your own "onboarding LN bank" offering "startup accounts" through NWC.

As I explained in this guide: https://darth-coin.github.io/beginner/getting-started-stack-sats-en.html

Steps to do with a noob:Steps to do with a noob:

• Create an account (yes is custodial...) on any of the mentioned above apps/services, that support NWC (see https://nwc.dev/), for example the https://lnwallet.app/ is the simplest one, no KYC. Yes ideal will be to give them a NWC account from your LN bank.
• Use Alby Go or Zeus or BitBanana to connect through NWC to that account
• Start accumulating sats into that account. With a NWC account (linked to a 24/7 LN node) is easier to buy sats from Robosats for example, or any other LN exchange. As a noob, you can accumulate small amounts until you reach a meaningful amount to open a proper LN channel.
• Once you reached let's say 10-20-50k sats, go and buy an inbound LSP LN channel. Here is a list of the most used LSPs.
• For example, we suppose you use Zeus (one of the most complete mobile wallet apps with various connection types), stacking sats in a NWC account and now you want to start opening a LN channel.
• Add a new embedded LND node in Zeus and please read first this "Getting started with Zeus" guide.
• Let Zeus to fully sync and put Zeus in "Persistent mode" so the LND service will run in the background. Then hit the button in the "Channels" screen, to "buy inbound channel". Select 500k or better 1M sats channel and hit create order. You will be prompted to pay a LN invoice (the lease of the channel). Copy the invoice code.
• Go to "Nodes" (top right icon) and select your NWC account. Then pay (paste) that LN invoice to the LSP.
• Go back to Zeus embedded node and you will see the invoice paid and the channel opening in few moments.
• Done! Now you are ready to receive directly into self-custody LN channel, with your own LN node on your mobile.
• Once you fill up that channel, use a swap service (if Zeus is not already integrated the swap service in app) to move like 90% of your channel balance into a "cache level wallet" (see next chapter), where you will build a nice UTXO for cold storage.
• Once the LN channel is (almost) emptied (never move all the funds, leave like 1-5%) you are ready to repeat the process.

I wrote more guides to follow up:

• Managing LN wallets liquidity
• How to use Rizful node with Zeus
• Quick LN node for traveling
• Run quickly a LNbits instance

When the student is ready, the master will show up!

The amount does not matter, you could give it 100k $ in sats and could still still not understand what just happened ... To understand Bitcoin you have to start by understanding the money. And that is the most difficult part. No one absolutely nobody knows how money works, and they don't want to learn either, but if they want to win it and treasure it.

But all that built only on soft money and Fiat illusion. And when we try to show them the truth. They do not capture it. And if they are moderately well at Fiat level it is even more difficult to make them understand that this money is a garbage.

I'd give him a present.

This is a gift that will rise some questions about money and store of value. And I think it's can help him to understand better why Bitcoin is a great solution.

In the picture you can see QR of a public address with $100 worth of Bitcoin. A one hundred dollars bill. And a piece of gold also valued at $100.

IMO, this frame is a good economic class.

By the way, the picture is from a @lunaticoin s video.

Price.

There's no better marketing or interest-generation than when BTC/USD hits, say, 500k

have him click thru CoinOS onboarding process, and have him receive 1000 sats.
then go find some QR code in Joe Nakamoto's bitcoin videos about a remote poor village living on bitcoin, and send some sats to that address. then have him send the rest of the sats to ur LN wallet. don't let the normie keep those 1000 sats, he did not earn them.

There's no harm in trying. If it's a good friend you can try with more but don't be disappointed if they lose it. I used to give away sats to friends and I think out of the 20-30 people only one managed to start stacking.

I usually show them how fast Lightning is with Wallet of Satoshi. Lately I'm thinking more about zapping over nostr as a first taste but I'm not sure which app and setup is best.

You should first give them knowledge related with money and then gives them opportunity, because knowledge will stay but 1000 sats will be finished

In that case, a thousand sats wouldn't do the magic if shifting his mindset is what you really want to achieve. Cos that's barely a dollar, and like you said, he needs more money and not @Atreus 's history lessons.

If their eyes glaze over you can just finish up whatever you were saying and then finish with, "And that's why I think it's smart for everyone to keep at least some bitcoin in their portfolio"

Lol fastest way to shift their mindset is for their current store of value to go to zero.

We can't think how others think, everyone will have a different trigger if their life doesn't depend on it, if people are comfortable with the status quo its hard for them to think about why they need a solution. Yes people complain about inflation but thats just to vent don't mistake that for someone who wants to take action.

I think we all have our orange pill evanglising phase but then we realise the juice is not worth the squeese.