> Having a middleman hold the publisher's monetization hostage is ethically dubious for the middleman. I think that's why they went with a cryptocurrency for p

> Having a middleman hold the publisher's monetization hostage is ethically dubious for the middleman. I think that's why they went with a cryptocurrency for payment. Brave isn't a middleman, or at least there's no technical reason why they have to be. Users pay publishers directly, using tokens that they earn from Brave in exchange for viewing ads.