The year 2020 was a proper stress test with Bitcoin hitting a low of around $5,000 in March and a high of $28,000. The year 2021 is following the same trend with the price already reaching the $40,000 level.

According to a programmer, based on what the source code contained, TikTok is effectively "legitimate spyware." Over and above the data that TikTok collects, the main contention has been that the app sends all this data to the company's head office in China.