I have noticed that whenever people in real life find out that I use bitcoin, they ask me to explain it to them. For example, some family friends that are my age came over to my house around 2 weeks ago, when they arrived, I was looking at crypto graphs because I had a little bit of money saved up to invest. Bitcoin was on one of the charts, so when they walked into my room, they asked about it, "You do bitcoin? How does it even work?." So I started explaining it to them, but what they didnt get was that it is decentralized. When I was explaining it they asked "Why doesnt bitcoin's creator give himself a billion bitcoin?" I told them that it is impossible for the creator to do so since he doesnt have control over the network, but after I said that, they told me that I was wrong and that since He made it, he can control it, which is incorrect. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to explain coins to non-crypto people?
I don’t think there is much that you have to explain here when it comes to Bitcoin. You can just tell them that Bitcoin is decentralized, and when they ask you what the word decentralization is all about Then you can tell them that it is something that has no central authority or control. To make them understand what it is all about you can breakdown the difference between centralization and decentralization.
I think that we have to make it clear to them. then the next thing you can tell them about is how it is being used, for example Bitcoin is a peer to peer method of transaction and doesn't require any middleman for the transaction to be carried out. So I don’t see anything much in this.