You are missing my point, I think. It doesn't matter if it is bitcoin or sailing or parachuting or cooking or web design or whatever. If you give someone a gift of something that they have expressed absolutely zero interest in previously, then chances are they are going to smile, thank you for it, then ignore it and wonder about if you really know them well and why you gave them such a strange gift.

There was a post I read a while back on Reddit from a guy who left advertisements for free bitcoin along with instructions and private keys/QR codes around his town, on noticeboards, on flyers, etc., and after several weeks not a single one of the wallets had been swept. I have tried gifting bitcoin to friends with zero interest in it and even telling them I want to give them free money if they spend 10 minutes with me to set up a wallet isn't enough to entice them. If people aren't interested then they aren't interested, and they aren't going to spend the time learning about it regardless of how easy we think that learning process is.