Well, the Coinbase ad was... different.
well my cat enjoyed it. he jumped up and ran to the tv and tried to catch it, prolly thought it was a new kind of cat game.
It pisses me off that this fucking shitty company has ended up with this much power over the narrative. You have to excuse me, but I am just a little drunk. Brian Armstrong has optimized for one thing, and that is to make himself money. Good for him. There is nothing wrong with that on it's face.
BUT.
He did this in a way that has significantly delays Bitcoin's path to inevitability by supporting an endless amount of imposter projects, and he has chosen to act like these all have some "possible significance", when they, in fact, do not.
Thing is... someone at his organization, most likely him, understands that these projects are flawed at their core,but that immense amounts of money can be made shilling these blockchains without regard to their actual value.
So he has chosen his path. And by doing so, because of his position, he has delayed the path of the primary project that matters.
It is hard for me to imagine a world in which someone can achieve the level he has without understanding that they had sold their soul.
I guess that is just how it is. One part of the price of a perfectly free market is the reality that it can be abused before people have become aware of it's dynamics.
While bitcoin is emerging at the absolute metric by which finance is measured, there are opportunities to take money from id idiots while the pickings are good. And he has done exactly that by delaying the good future that is Bitcoin. I think there is still time for him to finally come around to the light side... But the clock is running out.
Brian, you will be rich, but in hell. You will never need money. Come over to the side that makes sense.
, I don't know how much money Coinbase had to spend to design and make the ad run, but indeed the implementation of ads using barcodes can provide quick and easy access to the Coinbase platform, but isn't it coinbase need something more creative to grab the attention of the audience than a floating barcode?
