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> Bitcoin is popular enough with Superbowl fans to incur an app crash I'm not so sure it shows how popular Bitcoin is. Since it just crashed the website, I im
by banana_giraffe 5y ago
> Bitcoin is popular enough with Superbowl fans to incur an app crash
I'm not so sure it shows how popular Bitcoin is. Since it just crashed the website, I imagine the only takeaway is: If you spend 60 seconds showing nothing more than a QR code, then a lot of people will scan it and try to load the website.
- shadowgovt 5y ago... which makes this as much a story of opsec as advertising. Imagine if someone were to go through that whole process of prepping the ad, going through the meetings, getting the sign-offs, and then had rug-pulled what resource is linked by that QR code at the last possible second...
- lttlrck 5y agoif the camera apps do any preloading on QR URLs there is even less awareness...