The value of cryptocurrency is 0.
The problem comes when people mistake one for another.
IOW, buying a bunch of screwdrivers isn't a great retirement strategy.
Most people would have stopped caring about quality, and instead started caring about cheap utility. "It's good enough."
However self custody ensures they can never get it even if they kill you, and since it is programmable money there is a way to ensure it gets to a friendly address, maybe years later, perhaps to a loved one.
Seems the market places a worth on a possession that can not be taken from you by force, or even by your death, slightly more than 0.