Is the Bitcoin Standard heavy enough to knock some sense into them? If not, try a hardware wallet.

Yeah I recon ill gift him a hardware wallet. I was thinking to use mining as an introduction to bitcoin since he doesn't like his energy to be wasted. More of a real life approach instead of handing people books that make no sense to them, its a big leap for the common folk (like it was for me).

It’s very hard to convince people to start mining bitcoin if they don’t value bitcoin. Mining with just solar without having need for heat doesn’t make much sense if there is no battery already in place. Because the operation would just run a few hours a day, not interesting financially in the Netherlands.

There is a battery system in place, so it could run consistently and I did use heating as an argument also, here we don't have to pay to have excess energy put on the net yet, unlike in the Netherlands.i believe it to be worth even if it doesn't make complete sense financially.. just looking for info pointing out the benefits but I'm drawing a blank on what webpages explain this properly these days.. Thanks for the jnfo!