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 guess what’s being difficult for them to understand is the part that Bitcoin is a decentralized currency. Just try to explain the decentralization for them in a way that it would be understood. Explain to them that being a decentralized currency means that bitcoin doesn’t have any central control unit, rather it is being spread out across computers all around the world that involves in the mining of the currency.
So, that way no one person can control it and not even the government can do anything about it. Even if Satoshi Nakamoto shows up today he can’t do anything about it, he doesn’t have the control over it. I believe that the whitepaper written by Satoshi explains this very well and you can refer them to it.