The bouncing ad, reminiscent of DVD player logos, allowed viewers to scan the code, taking them to a cryptocurrency website offer. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture ...

Coinbase Global, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, made its Super Bowl debut with a QR code ad so popular that it crashed the app and forced the company to throttle traffic to its site. The ...

Coinbase's ad for its cryptocurrency exchange site featured one long shot of a QR code (a type of barcode that can be scanned by smartphones) floating around the screen like a classic screensaver. But ...

While Coinbase got more than 20 million of you to scan a QR code during the Super Bowl, we don't need advertisers normalizing scammer behaviors. Since my start in 2008, I've covered a wide variety of ...

Advertising for cryptocurrency services got a lot of attention during Sunday’s Super Bowl, but an ad for Coinbase Inc. managed to crash their website and raise security concerns. Companies advertising ...