This is not the same for all crypto currency, but a bitcoin represents a “proof of work”. When people “mine” bitcoins, they are consuming computational resources, and when they find a bitcoin, it is a certification of the work that was done to find it that becomes the value of the coin. And then, as others as mentioned, people just agree that that work has a certain amount of monetary value. But the proof of work is what limits the supply and allows that value to exist. 3Blue1Brown has a really good video that goes into the technical details if you’re interested.

43% of people:

“Germ Theory” is woke, radical leftist propaganda! Make America Great Again, by way of bloodletting!

Yet another sad indicator of the state we’re in, that the blunder is giving the senate enough time to find out how shitty the nominee is, rather than picking a shitty nominee.