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> Brave's business-model experiments to support a tracker-free internet – like the crypto-tokens & user-agent-controlled ad-replacement – are opt-in. Shitcoins
by craftyguy 7y ago
> Brave's business-model experiments to support a tracker-free internet – like the crypto-tokens & user-agent-controlled ad-replacement – are opt-in.
Shitcoins require public, and trackable, ledgers, so you literally cannot say 'uses shitcoin' and 'tracker-free internet' in the same sentence.
- rezic 7y agoWas it really necessary to use the word "shitcoins"? I'm not the one to say whether your argument is otherwise correct, but resorting to such childish naming only ends up hurting your point. Chances are people just roll their eyes and scroll on to the next comment before they even finish the sentence.
- craftyguy 7y ago> Was it really necessary to use the word "shitcoins"? Yes. > but resorting to such childish naming only ends up hurting your point. Well, I'm not wrong.
- rezic 7y agoNot saying you're wrong, but if your reason for commenting was to convince someone you're right, you probably ended up failing that. If you just wanted an excuse to shit on crypto then... ok.
- gojomo 7y agoEach individual assertion in your comment, & your intended implication, is false. Bitcoin, & close relatives, require a public ledger, but some altcoins use other technologies to prevent a publicly-readable ledger. But, Brave uses an off-blockchain technology ('ANONIZE': https://tech.cornell.edu/built/anonize/ https://tech.cornell.edu/built/anonize/) to tally attention without per-browser/per-user tracking. So, the use of their BAT tokens to net-out rewards, even though on the public Ethereum ledger, has no contradiction with the "tracker-free internet" goal.