What reality did I alter? Bitcoin's current value is *completely* irrational and absolutely unjustified. When it had some prospective future, sure some tenuous argument could be made, but now it's basically NFTs -- people collecting worthless things, with so little real (not wash) trading that for a while the illusion holds on. That's the sham. In the same way that GameStop or BedBathandBeyond didn't become retail powerhouses because a bunch of WallStreetBets sorts aped it.

You seem to be under delusions that a given niche market is demonstrative of much at all. Crypto was the future. Now it's, for all intents and purposes, dead outside of crime, but as long as there are HODL sorts it can keep up the pretend value.