We get that you're playing cookie clicker with real life money / thousands of dollars of computer hardware but you don't need to act like you're doing the world

We get that you're playing cookie clicker with real life money / thousands of dollars of computer hardware but you don't need to act like you're doing the world a service with it. It's inherently wasteful because proof of work is inherently wasteful. All it is, is a massive energy sink for the sole (uncharismatic) purpose of gaming a digital currency's value back and forth to USD for profit. At the very least factories actually produce goods. All crypto produces is speculation, its original existence as a "currency" almost completely vestigial to it's current purpose as cynical gambling chip held in reference to actual hard currency. Also the fact that this is even in the same stratosphere as the world's global manufacturing hub is fucking mortifying, how the hell is that justifyable? How is that not inefficient to the point of lunacy? What does that add to society?