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> I wish brave would focus less on attracting advertisers and more on the use case where people just buy BAT and let their browsers fund content creators from t

> I wish brave would focus less on attracting advertisers and more on the use case where people just buy BAT and let their browsers fund content creators from the wallet without having advertisers in the loop at all. This sounds like a desirable group of features, but might this tread a bit too closely to making Brave a money-transmission service and put them under the scrutiny of far more complex regulations?

eganist 4y ago
> This sounds like a desirable group of features, but might this tread a bit too closely to making Brave a money-transmission service and put them under the scrutiny of far more complex regulations? If it can be made clear that you're paying for content you're consuming, that might waive it to an extent? Who knows.
__MatrixMan__ 4y ago
If I go to a restaurant and leave separate tips for the bartender vs waitstaff, is the restaurant now a money transmission service?
- rolenthedeep 4y ago
  That's a payment to the restaurant, and is counted with the employee's normal pay. Or if you personally hand cash to people it becomes a personal gift. The situation is more analogous to patreon: a centralized service which you make bulk payments to, and they divvy the payment to your selected set of people who are not employees of patreon. Brave is starting a centralized service where you make bulk payments to them, and they divvy up the payment to your selected set of sites who are not employed by brave
  - __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
    > Brave is starting ... I think the situation you describe is how brave has worked for many years now. Just fund your wallet and enable auto-contribute and it'll happen. Whether that's legal or not, I dunno. My point is that however legal it is is unchanged if you give users more control over how much goes where and let them curate such settings for each other.

eganist 4y ago

> This sounds like a desirable group of features, but might this tread a bit too closely to making Brave a money-transmission service and put them under the scrutiny of far more complex regulations? If it can be made clear that you're paying for content you're consuming, that might waive it to an extent? Who knows.

__MatrixMan__ 4y ago

If I go to a restaurant and leave separate tips for the bartender vs waitstaff, is the restaurant now a money transmission service?

rolenthedeep 4y ago
That's a payment to the restaurant, and is counted with the employee's normal pay. Or if you personally hand cash to people it becomes a personal gift. The situation is more analogous to patreon: a centralized service which you make bulk payments to, and they divvy the payment to your selected set of people who are not employees of patreon. Brave is starting a centralized service where you make bulk payments to them, and they divvy up the payment to your selected set of sites who are not employed by brave
- __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
  > Brave is starting ... I think the situation you describe is how brave has worked for many years now. Just fund your wallet and enable auto-contribute and it'll happen. Whether that's legal or not, I dunno. My point is that however legal it is is unchanged if you give users more control over how much goes where and let them curate such settings for each other.