As for why it's "Bearer", here's ChatGPT's answer: > The term "Bearer" is commonly used in the context of securities and financial instruments to refer to the

As for why it's "Bearer", here's ChatGPT's answer: > The term "Bearer" is commonly used in the context of securities and financial instruments to refer to the person who holds or possesses a particular security or asset. In the case of OAuth 2.0, the bearer token represents the authorization that a user has granted to a client application to access their protected resources. > By using the term "Bearer" in the Authorization header, the OAuth 2.0 specification is drawing an analogy to the financial context where a bearer bond is a type of security that is payable to whoever holds it, similar to how a bearer token can be used by anyone who possesses it to access the protected resource.