Bitcoin wallet company’s Super Bowl stunt netted a ton of new users. CEO Brian Armstrong tried to claim credit for the idea for the ad, but an ad agency said the idea was the work of an outside firm. The company was also apparently woefully unprepared for the massive surge in traffic this stunt ended up bringing in. Almost immediately after the QR code graced screens across America, Twitter users began pointing out that the site appeared to have crashed. As one put it, “the future of money can’t even handle a [Super Bowl] commercial’s] commercial, one said: “You’d think with billions of dollars of capital… that Coinbase would invest in infrastructure to handle the traffic.” . . .
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