My Theory on Cryptocurrency

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I just hear things about it 'from here and there'---mostly (right now, anyway) comedian Bill Maher, who tells us cryptocurrency is a huge waste of energy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaJpYjO136o "essentially one computer thinks of a number between one and infinity and other computers take trillions of guesses at what it is ... it's the old game of i'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10 except times a gazillion and the guy guessing the number lives in china and the guy who knows the number lives in THE MATRIX! Take that, Work!... "do i need to spell this out there is something inherently not credible about creating hundreds of billions in virtual wealth with nothing ever actually being accomplished and no actual product made or service rendered.... "Unfortunately what is real is the unfathomable amount of electricity those massive supercomputers suck up for their 'mining' - the power--listen to this--the power being used right now to guess numbers and win imaginary prizes is the same as all the electricity needed to light all of new york" But I've been watching tutorial videos about a blogging-for-cryptocurrency site and--since the lessons are more about email-marketing--I've kinda had to 'piece together' "where the money comes from"---so far, I can only guess that it comes from 'when you buy "Power Credits" (or whatever they call `em) to GIVE to other bloggers (by "curating"--fancy word for "liking"--their posts---'Decentralizing' the 'Finances' (DeFi)).