Coinbase (NASDAQ 🙂 Ad, which was broadcast during The Superbowl was last weekDue to new details about its origins,, seems to have caused quite a stir online. The 60 second spot on television was scannable. This feature is available a color-changing, bouncing QR code that brought users to a promotional BTC giveaway page — seemingly based on the oft-meme’d DVD screensavers of yore.

Yesterday’s Twitter thread (NYSE:) was long and Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, gave praise to his internal team for working on the ad. It is possible to sayThat: “one the original ideas” [for the ad]A QR code was added at the end of our email. They finally agreed, and it turned out great — our team did an amazing job pulling this off last minute.”