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danuker 5y ago
So much innovation! Makes me want to throw my money into anything linked to it. TL;DW: a floating color-changing QR code on a black background, with obnoxious music.
- paulpauper 5y ago
  the ad has just announced a series b round of funding, valuing it at $1 billion, although how this works for an ad I have no idea
- trompetenaccoun 5y ago
  I don't normally watch this stuff but checked out the other commercials out of curiosity. If you find this obnoxious, oh boy, they are surprisingly even worse. As for this one it's obviously designed to get people to look it up. Seems to have worked if we want to trust CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/14/investing/coinbase-qr-code-app/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/14/investing/coinbase-qr-cod... And now HN is talking about it too. More publicity for them.
bombcar 5y ago
It's brilliantly stupid because it buys into the whole idea that QR codes are things normal people actually ever use.
- dorkwood 5y ago
  It depends where you live. In Japan, QR codes are used by the majority. In Los Angeles, half the restaurants you go to serve their menus via QR code. In the Netherlands, online payments are frequently completed using iDeal, which lets you scan a QR code with your phone instead of manually inputting payment details.
  - slenk 5y ago
    In the next superbowl, "How we got all idiot American's to install spyware on their phones"
  - bombcar 5y ago
    The restaurants is one I hadn't thought of - even though I'm the only one I know who knows you can point a phone at a QR code to get a web link, many in LA probably know it now, too. Still not sure it was a very useful use of Super Bowl dollars, should have at least had coinbased.com under it or something.
    - tradertef 5y ago
      The fact that you have not heard of it does not make it rare. Leaving aside all the discussions in thread and people's view about crypto and Bitcoin, I think the ad is genius.
    - to11mtm 5y ago
      At least around me (Michigan) many of the local restaurants got rid of normal menus and went straight to QR Codes on the napkin holders/etc. In addition to the lack of contact vector for COVID, there is the side benefit to owners of not having to reprint/laminate menus when you do a price change. > Still not sure it was a very useful use of Super Bowl dollars, should have at least had coinbased.com under it or something. Agreed on that; perhaps just a little too avant-garde in that matter.
- rp3 5y ago
- ricochet11 5y ago
  i mean, the past couple of years as seen massive uptake of qr codes (at least in the uk) - restaurants, train/cinema tickets, nfts, payments, postage its probably the most public and normal qr codes have ever been

So much innovation! Makes me want to throw my money into anything linked to it. TL;DW: a floating color-changing QR code on a black background, with obnoxious music.

paulpauper 5y ago
the ad has just announced a series b round of funding, valuing it at $1 billion, although how this works for an ad I have no idea
trompetenaccoun 5y ago
I don't normally watch this stuff but checked out the other commercials out of curiosity. If you find this obnoxious, oh boy, they are surprisingly even worse. As for this one it's obviously designed to get people to look it up. Seems to have worked if we want to trust CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/14/investing/coinbase-qr-code-app/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/14/investing/coinbase-qr-cod... And now HN is talking about it too. More publicity for them.

bombcar 5y ago

It's brilliantly stupid because it buys into the whole idea that QR codes are things normal people actually ever use.

dorkwood 5y ago
It depends where you live. In Japan, QR codes are used by the majority. In Los Angeles, half the restaurants you go to serve their menus via QR code. In the Netherlands, online payments are frequently completed using iDeal, which lets you scan a QR code with your phone instead of manually inputting payment details.
- slenk 5y ago
  In the next superbowl, "How we got all idiot American's to install spyware on their phones"
- bombcar 5y ago
  The restaurants is one I hadn't thought of - even though I'm the only one I know who knows you can point a phone at a QR code to get a web link, many in LA probably know it now, too. Still not sure it was a very useful use of Super Bowl dollars, should have at least had coinbased.com under it or something.
  - tradertef 5y ago
    The fact that you have not heard of it does not make it rare. Leaving aside all the discussions in thread and people's view about crypto and Bitcoin, I think the ad is genius.
  - to11mtm 5y ago
    At least around me (Michigan) many of the local restaurants got rid of normal menus and went straight to QR Codes on the napkin holders/etc. In addition to the lack of contact vector for COVID, there is the side benefit to owners of not having to reprint/laminate menus when you do a price change. > Still not sure it was a very useful use of Super Bowl dollars, should have at least had coinbased.com under it or something. Agreed on that; perhaps just a little too avant-garde in that matter.
rp3 5y ago
ricochet11 5y ago
i mean, the past couple of years as seen massive uptake of qr codes (at least in the uk) - restaurants, train/cinema tickets, nfts, payments, postage its probably the most public and normal qr codes have ever been