In the middle of a crisis, everybody pitches in and does what they can.

Non-medical companies like Tesla, General Motors, and Ford all have jumped in to leverage their manufacturing skills to produce medical supplies needed for fighting COVID-19. On the surface, that seems like a good thing.

It seems as if you can’t open up a news site without seeing something about Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency has taken the past year by storm.

Imagine having purchased even just one bitcoin a few years ago. In 2009, a man invested $27 for 5,000 of the coins while writing a thesis on the encryption process.