The Economics of Bitcoin (Cryptocurrency)

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I said that I was going to 'wait for a crowd to gather' before I attempt to go 'crowdsurfing' on the cryptocurrency crowd; but I figured I would do better as a part of that crowd. So I go out to where I think the crowd is gathering, and ... I'm still waiting ... I mean; why would any one else want to join me in the cryptocurrency crowd? Well, I haven't heard 'why they invented cryptocurrency' (unless you believe the "to make a currency-system that's harder to hack"-story). I guess that's one reason I got into it. I don't invest in it, but I always (well, ever since that movie HACKERS---where they stole millions by hacking into the banks and stealing a fraction of a cent from billions of accounts) suspected that the common currency-system was weak. (I'm sure that the bank-systems are too secure to hack that way; but doesn't 'the decentralized system' sound even more secure?) But I've heard that ONE CRYPTOCURRENCY-TRANSACTION uses as much electricity as 'ALL THE LIGHTS IN A MAJOR CITY!' That may be, but--the way I run my 'mining-tool' (that's what they call the program I use to help secure people's cryptocurrency-transactions)--it only uses the same amount of energy as 'a little lightbulb on my computer' (energy I'd be wasting anyway). This video may explain it even better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEgOmklwjfQ&list=PL3tF060u39sHZSmJZqSDCZu49A2z0OcNF&index=12&ab_channel=EconomicsExplained