A guy with 18,000,000 attached to his address, and a guy with 0.00000001 attached, can both show only keys and math symbols.
That's the point: this
'only keys and math symbols' do hold value. You seem very confused, because you keep going back and forth between 'you guys just show the number e.g.
5BTC but not what it points to' and 'keys are just math symbols'. Those are two different things. Both are wrong, but both are different. Are you even aware of this? It would be beneficial to know what we're discussing about, because (1) is completely wrong and easy to understand, while (2) gets a little bit more interesting.
Nothing else. There's no difference between them. So, what is your point? On what did the first guy spend 1.2 trillion dollars?
Just because two cryptographic keys are both 'math symbols' doesn't mean both need to have the same value. It's like saying 'your shed and this skyscraper are both building, lol why would this stupid guy buy the skyscraper for $100 million when he can buy a shed that is also a
'math symbol'building and only costs a couple grand?'