A couple ideas.

When ready, give your friend a @blocktrades btc to sp address to power them up and send them to the nearest btm.
This is how I've made my buys.

Steem-engine, when it is ready, can fork off of steem, run their own witnesses, and viola!, the ninjamine and hard forks 17 through some of 21 are as if they never happened.
Stinc's abominable business reputation is no longer a dead albatross around our necks.

Smteee's come with the security of steem's 21 witness consensus.
Steem-engine currently lacks that.
SE tokens are partially contingent on the good faith of those building it, atm.
They go to zero without more development, but so does steem.

Crashing steem for a SE style take over may have been the plan all along.
That would help explain stinc's penchant for warmly embracing questionably known influencers that turned out to be bad actors, ie jerry, charlie, tdv(cleaned up his act, here anyways), among other lesser knowns, in order to increase the pump and fomo of the suckers.

I dont know how to ease onboarding beyond acquiring account tokens and setting up accounts yourself.

What smteee's and se tokens come with is the chance of getting in on a viral game.
Imagine if dungeons and dragons had in game gold, and every item, bags, staves, swords, spells, potions, etc, were uniquely identifiable and traded on an open market.
Totally already happening on next colony and splinterlands.

I just don't see actual investors, as opposed to fomo'd suckers, buying in until stinc's reputation is mitigated against.
The kneecappening was very effective.

I do think any price below .25usd is a buy, for me, but hope dies last.
I think we can get past the malignancy that currently has us down.