In March of 2020, Chinese search engine Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) reported searches for bitcoin increased 183% over the prior year. The New York Times suggests that years of low interest rates, massive student loans, and housing price inflation are causing some investors to take what it calls the "trampoline" approach to investing. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, including Etherium, currently run and secure their networks by asking ultra-powerful computer chips to crunch difficult mathematical calculations, using massive amounts of energy in the process.