Surely this economy can’t last for much longer.

The idea that cryptocurrency will ever be a usable tool is long gone, except if you’re one of those devious few buying drugs off the dark web. In real life, most crypto is too slow and energy-intensive to work practically, as evidenced by the fact that El Salvador, a country that heavily promoted Bitcoin use, has seen little adoption by everyday people.

Instead, people are seeing cryptocurrency as a way to make money by, well, literally making money. Take this actual child, for example, who live-streamed himself creating a cryptocurrency, pumping it and then dumping it, netting himself $30,000 in a matter of seconds.