Talking Bitcoin over turkey this Thanksgiving

Many of you probably spent Thanksgiving last year explaining the rise of Bitcoin to a wide-eyed family around the table trying to make sense of this magic money from the interwebs. “It’s like digital money,” your 2017-self explains, “that can be used for goods and services, get in now before the price hits $100k.”
You go on to use concrete examples, like explaining how you can transact person to person with no bank in between from anywhere in the world. The funds ar