The weirdest thing about crypto is that it actually works. It does something that hasn't been solved before. Coordinate a financial economy at scale around the whole globe without any actor being able to destroy it.

Oh and of course, the weirdest thing about crypto is that this new currency with potential influence on world economic order was set free by someone we will most likely never get to know. In theory, it could have been an 18 year old kid from its basement with the IQ of Vitalik Buterin.