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I agree 100%. There are still things about brave that confuse me... like the browser feature that allows giving crypto to content providers... but as someone

• d0gbread 4y ago
  Do you have specific questions about how the crypto features work? They're optional by the way, but I've found them an amazing way to regularly donate to a couple key blogs I follow.
  • cphoover 4y ago
    Yea I guess... How would I set this up? Do I need some sort of wallet? How would a random website author know what to do with this specific cryptocurrency?
• soundnote 4y ago
  As far as I understand it: Brave sells ads. They get $X normal money from it. The ads are delivered from a local catalog downloaded in bulk (the same way safe browsing blocklists are, for example) and matched on device. If you opt in to see Brave's ad popups, you get a cut from the revenue those popups generate. Brave gives this cut as BAT - they buy the coins from the open market. Brave has a built-in tipping service where you can tip people with BAT. If you do, Brave transfers BAT from your wallet to the tippee (and Brave takes a cut from the transaction). Tippee has BAT that they can sell because there's at least one buyer of BAT on the market: Brave. It seems like a sensible system overall, but my specifics may be wrong.
  • cphoover 4y ago
    This is interesting though I doubt I would ever enable this because I loathe popup advertisements probably more than AMP