I explained crypto to my mother a few weeks ago, including what mining means, how bitcoin is generated/issued, how transactions work, what is the blockchain, why bitcoin has value and where it comes from, how do you convert from fiat to crypto and back, etc. it was interesting because I would sometimes try to make my analogies too ELI5 and she’d ask me to go back a few steps because she really wanted to understand the fundamentals of crypto transactions, not the math, but also not just an analogy. This forced me to really find a middle ground which was amazing.

So for context, she is a lawmaker and government in my country is proposing a law to make all things crypto illegal, so she asked for my professional opinion and after I wrote it up, the really wanted to dominate it, as, like myself, she can’t bring herself to speak publicly about something she does not understand at some level.

I was very proud of both her and myself.