I’ve never understood what the fuck cryptocurrency is all about. Now there’s news that prices for cryptocurrencies "have cratered since reaching all-time highs in early November, wiping out an astonishing $1.35 trillion in value globally, nearly half of the total market," the Washington Post reports. Then I read this comment on the article explaining it...
Step 1: Let your vacuum cleaner run for 1 month at max power for 24/7
Step 2: Make sure nothing is cleaned with it (very important!)
Step 3: Convince your noise stricken neighbor to sign an affidavit that you indeed kept your vacuum cleaner running 24/7 for one month without any purpose
Step 4: Show this affidavit to an 'investor' and tell him that this 'certificate' is very valuable because it took so much resources to create it and your vacuum cleaner now is trash.
Step 5: Sell this 'certificate' to someone, who doesn't believe it is worth anything, but who is convinced to find someone stupid enough to pay him more than he spent on it.
Step 6: Repeat from step 1 as long as people want to get rich without work.
Now, everything makes sense.