I've been hard at orange-pilling some good friends these last months before the end of the Plebs-led Bitcoin era. Just now, thinking about my latest attempt, I realized there may be one single small discourse adjustment when I explain how it works to them, that may help onboarding.

One thing that really puts them off generally speaking (and everybody I think) is the extreme fear of losing their keys. We (people holding already) make a huge emphasis on the fact that if you lose your keys, your coins are "lost forever"... But you can lose your keys to your coins and still simply send them to a newly created wallet. The keys are only used to create or migrate a wallet, in the end, which should be rare events.

I know that for the OG's here this will be "DUH, OBVY". It's not that I didn't know it myself. I just hadn't seen it from the point of view of making it much more relevant to assuage fears when explaining Bitcoin to potential newcomers, and to tone down the importance of the keys (just to tone it down, still making it central).