I've been a programmer for a long, long time and when I first looked into crypto I honestly didn't really get it - to me it was a ponzi scheme.
I understand it a bit more (just a bit) and I still don't get why so many people thought this was revolutionary.
Very famous people, the ex president of the United States, lots of rich people, all thought this was the way to go and in the end they (will) ended up with nothing.
It's so weird.