Sometimes it’s possible for an advertisement to be too successful—and Coinbase stock is paying the price.
Coinbase Global (ticker: COIN) ran an ad during the Super Bowl that included a QR code that would send viewers to its website. While some have criticized the ad as being confusing, apparently enough viewers understood it—and its offer for $15 in free Bitcoin just for signing up—that the company was forced to slow down traffic to its website.
