Bankless Nation, the markets feel very chaotic lately. So we brought on Jim Bianco, who is a repeat

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to Jim Bianco to figure out what the hell is going on in the markets. All right, Jim, I saw your

Twitter, so I know you watched the Super Bowl. I think you call it the worst Super Bowl ever.

I tend to agree. But what did you think of the Coinbase commercial? That was also very controversial.

Did you see it? Yes, I did. I, uh, I, uh, I kind of liked it and kind of somewhat adjacent to

crypto is I kind of like the Claude commercials too. I thought that those were pretty funny as well.

But, uh, you know, I wouldn't quite go as far as to say it was the crypto or AI

able, you know, like we had a couple of years ago in 2022, 2023, but it was, it was, I liked it.

What about you? Okay, so I was watching it with my family and the reaction was basically like

everyone was singing along Backstreet Boys.

They had no idea what it was.

In the back of my mind, I was like, this looks really similar to the previous commercial Coinbase played.

So that was kind of out there.

And then as soon as the song kind of ended in Coinbase logo shows up and it says,

you know, crypto or whatever, my whole family looks at me and everyone groans.

So that was my experience with it.

Yeah, I will say this about the commercials in general.

I think that they're overproduced, you know, and basically what it is is every commercial to me seems to be the same.

Let's get a bunch of A-list celebrities, overpay them, overproduced 30 seconds of a big

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