Using the term "cryptocurrency" is misleading, as bitcoin has been deemed property in the US and Canada. The energy use thing has been debunked a thousand times over when compared to other forms of property exchange.

If someone sent you the IP address of a Peekabooty node (or any other proxy) to you, you could proxy through it to download Peekabooty for yourself. One of the main jobs of Peekabooty is to constantly find you new proxies to route through so that you dont have to constantly be getting IP addresses of proxies via email. So the bootstrap process requires a little manual labor, but after that it should require no intervention on your part.