do you have any useful tricks for explaining the relationships between seeds and addresses to newcomers?

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Yeah I need help too with that

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I normally skip that part when orange pilling. I don't get into it until they are deep in. Then I use the following for addresses, signing, seeds (essentiallybanking with checks)....

Addresses are like your bank sub accounts of your bank master account on the global ledger. The bank being their wallet. Their anonymity is safe as long as they don't tell the public their account numbers which they can create as many as they like. Whenever they receive bitcoin their wallet will just create a new address/account from their master account/seed. So even the person sending them bitcoin only knows what they sent you. When you send bitcoin to an address it's like writing a check. Your wallet pulls enough bitcoin from your current holdings (sub accounts) for the amount you want to send. It then writes a check (creates a transaction) which is then signed not by your physical signature like a check, but your master account private key that corresponds to those 12 or 24 magic words they saw when they created the wallet. This signed transaction is then broadcast to nodes and processed until it is on that global ledger. It can be viewed on the ledger to verify the transaction has been confirmed.

I do not get into public/private key encryption unless they ask how is it signed and why it works. Rob Braxman has a vid on Odysee with a normie explanation of that which I can play for them if they want to understand why the math works.