What are /r/BATProject's favorite Products & Services?

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Hey all,

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We've opened up our Developer Channel Preview to include the Beta Channel with this release, which is why you're all observing this.

Phase one of our Developer Channel Preview does not include token confirmations / rewards for ads, but provides a preview of the ad unit and flow, along with an early look at some of the user controls.

The upcoming phase two of our preview will include token confirmations, and rewards for viewing ads.

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For more info about our Developer Channel Preview: https://brave.com/brave-previews-opt-in-ads-in-desktop-browser-developer-channel/

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Much love for early enthusiasm, feedback and testing.

Welcome to the family! Brave v1.0, coming this fall, will likely quell any lingering desktop woes you might have. :)

See this post about what you can expect from v1.0: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

This is already an issue as we release regular grants to users and creators (see https://brave.com/brave-users-get-rewarded-to-browse/ and https://brave.com/refer). What helps right now: buffering on device until reconciliation via ANONIZE => settlement means we can do settlement analysis of flows, looking for fake sites/accounts getting grants from sybil-bots. As we give grants from the UGP, we can claw those back if fraud is detected. User self-funded grants are ok. For ads we will use the same settlement analysis, beefed up to cope with threats. As with all the other players dealing with unknown users (we do not KYC users for them to get grants or give payments to creators), anti-fraud work is a burden we must rise to bear.

Greetings from the Hydro team Brendan! Would your team be able to provide more details on the Civic partnership? Also have a look into our identity protocol called Snowflake

The blog post says "at least 12 hours" for sufficient liquidity. They waited ~~a couple days~~ one day when zrx was listed. I believe it started on a ~~Monday~~ EDIT: it was on a Friday morning, post-only orders began at 7am and full trading was available by 7:32am. The announcement occurred 19 hrs before trading began. USDC can be converted to USD in the wallets section. There will be another pump when BAT hits coinbase.com/ios app so keep an look out for that also. The wording for everything is exactly the same as zrx. Cheers.

Tell all your friends about it! And you can benefit from doing this too with the referral program (https://brave.com/refer). Many people around me use Brave full time on their mobile devices (including iPhones), since they usually don't realize that you can block ads on mobile too. It usually just takes a second to show them Brave or to install it on their phone, then replace the Safari icon with it. From there, it's mostly a done deal!

That said, on the Android store, Brave should appear quite high up on the list.

Good point! The ad catalog will actually be comprised of edge-cached URLs + some other metadata. So, you don't have to download the actual ad content (images, .mp4 video, etc.) to your device, just a link to the media.

Of course, you may be concerned that the edge caching servers might be logging IPs and tracking that way. I've brought this up to Brendan before and, IIRC, he says it's less of a problem with edge cache servers, and also something he will contract against legally.

Another solution, however, is to simply open ad-related connections through a VPN (e.g., Brave Payments already operates through Private Internet Access's VPN), or open it as a Tor private tab, since that functionality will already be in Brave!

Yeah, if Jennifer Granick say to be worried ...... be worried. There's two creepy things here.

First, the government over-reach that was supposed to stay sealed is real bad. For decades, through all administrations, various orgs will push the boundaries of pulling data on citizens, but this is a new tack. Previously, the warrants would look like 'For this Google account, give us all the info (including what they searched)' and it's quietly morphed into 'Give us all the accounts and IP addresses who searched on this name.'

It's a fishing expedition. They are doing the same thing with GPS, demanding info on all users within a certain area at a time a crime as committed. Super creepy.

Second, and to your point, the fact Google, Microsoft and Yahoo HAS all this to give is starting to get more mainstream attention. Good.

Brave Search's privacy policy is here :

Brave Search is designed to be private by default. We don't collect personal information about you, your device or your searches. We also don't transmit information to the web that could be used to profile you or track you or learn anything about you. Your searches are private to YOU.

>How do I enable a dark theme?

We currently don't have a dark theme, but the dark theme will be shipping with Brave v1.0, our rewrite of the browser coming this US fall season.

>There seems to be a very limited amount of plugins. Which is okay, for the most part, but I need react and redux dev tools. Are they available for brave?

We will have full Chrome extension coverage with v1.0 coming this fall season.

To read more about v1.0, see here: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

In short, you should 100% definitely revisit Brave when 1.0 comes out this US fall season. I can personally tell you that you will have no reason to switch back to Chrome with 1.0. Everything basic will be on par with Chrome (in terms of extension compatibility, themes, UI snappiness, general UI layout but refreshed, dev tools, etc.), plus you'll get all the Brave specific features like the Brave Rewards system, faster page loads, ads/trackers blocked by default, etc., Tor integration, ETH Wallet, etc.

As someone who sees the work the team is doing on 1.0, I'm extremely, extremely excited to see it land.

In reality they don’t have to tell the public and sort of timeframe. Privately they probably have timelines for stuff. By them exposing unnecessary information; it will either increase/decrease the value of BAT and people will complain whichever way it goes. Pretty sure you fit in that category.

Again your expectation is by far insane.

If you want to know what happens behind close doors; why don’t you apply?

https://www.glassdoor.com/Jobs/Brave-Jobs-E2159279.htm

https://brave.com/careers/

If you want to know what happens behind close doors, why don’t you visit the Github project and give a hand.

No company has to give out any sort of deadline to the public. The fact that they communicate with the public it’s at their own discretion.

99% sure you are trolling because you are invested and need the money. Next time don’t invest what you can’t lose. If this was a stock or an option on a regulated market , pretty sure you wouldn’t be asking or demanding all this nonsenses.

Hi there! What you choose to do is entirely up to you!

It's worth noting that when we roll out Phase II of the Brave Ads Roadmap later this year, we'll introduce Publisher-Integrated Ads. Content providers (like you!) will be able to feature private ads within their website or channels.

In other words, users who opt-in to seeing ads in Brave will see Publisher-Integrated Ads on publisher content (such as an interstitial banner advertisement on a publisher's webpage). Publishers will earn 70% of ad revenue, and users 15%, for publisher-integrated ads.

Please see: https://brave.com/brave-previews-opt-in-ads-in-desktop-browser-developer-channel/

Hi there! The dev preview release is just that—a preview. You cannot earn BAT for seeing ads in Brave just yet—that will come with a future update.

Please see: https://brave.com/brave-previews-opt-in-ads-in-desktop-browser-developer-channel/

And: https://youtu.be/VJ8MQDfLN70

To donate it anonymously to their favorite creators via Brave. Many of our users go above and beyond taking a free grant from us (releasing regularly, see https://brave.com/brave-users-get-rewarded-to-browse/) and bring their own BAT funds, to more than replace their "lost value" due to ad and tracker blocking.

Brave wins the hearts and minds of tech-savvy users you can not buy that with capital. Growth skyrocketing year over a year maybe one of the fastest-growing browsers on the market right now.

Coil Puma browser dead in the water with 500 downloads.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pumabrowser.pumabrowser

Brave the company does not collect your browsing history. Indeed, there is no code in the browser that takes your browsing history and ships it off to Brave, and you can verify this yourself as Brave is totally open source.

You might ask "But what about Brave Payments? How can I (1) contribute to the websites in my Brave Payments browsing history, and (2) speak to the Brave Payments ledger server without telling the server my history?"

Well, the answer is this: By using novel cryptographic techniques that mathematically guarantee your anonymity. In this case, we're talking Zero Knowledge Proof (ZKP) protocols. The ZKP protocol used by Brave Payments is called ANONIZE2. You can see the mathematics and proofs here:

Moreover, all interactions you have with the Brave Payments ledger server are done through the Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN. Before enabling BP, you'll see the PIA logo on the right hand side.

In the future, interactions with the BP ledger server might be done completely through Tor, since Brave is integrating Tor. And secondly, if you're still concerned about centralization, the Brave Payments ledger server will be dismantled and fully decentralized in future phases of the project.

I won't limit the possibilities to what I can come up with myself.

So generally, whatever our team and community make it to be, we're hiring by the way:

<strong>https://brave.com/jobs/</strong>

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In 5 years I can personally imagine having a visible stake of browser market share.

I see us causing other browser companies to step up their game.

I see us influencing privacy on the Internet at large.

I see BAT used in many products and services.

I see us working at standardizing BAT.

I see user private ads understood and widely adopted.

I see us branching out into various different products and services.

This is totally untrue. Brave does not track your searches or anything like that. You also don't have to take my word for it; Brave is 100&#37; open-source, so the code doesn't lie.

Secondly, any contributions via Brave Payments occur through the Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN service. This is even written in the Brave Payments panel (before enabling):

>All transaction IP addresses are anonymized with technology from Private Internet Access.

Please see our guide below.

HOW TO GET BAT AS A REGULAR USER:

1. Buy some from a secondary exchange that lists BAT: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/basic-attention-token/#markets

2. Wait for a free token grant from Brave. There is no fixed schedule for when we give out token grants. You will see a notification in your browser if and when a token grant becomes available for you to claim.

3. Get rewarded with BAT for seeing privately-matched ads in Brave for desktop if you are located in the US, Canada, the UK, France or Germany. Brave Ads will become available in more countries in the future.

Download Brave: https://brave.com/download

No one said these are going to be professionals. People enjoy getting involved and being part of the BAT Community. We have dozens of regional leaders all around the world already, and we support them with merch, promotional BAT, etc.

This isn’t hiring (that is over at https://brave.com/jobs); we're ramping up our community and grassroots initiatives and are simply asking if there are people who are interested in getting more involved and who want to be recognized for their contributions. :)

Invest in what you know right? Well I work in marketing so when I saw "AdEx" on https://coinmarketcap.com I was naturally intrigued. Unfortunately, after doing some research I came to the conclusion that they were just your typical ICO high school project with no real future.

The silver lining is that they mentioned BAT as a competitor in their white paper.

GrapheneOS is a really fantastic Android project that puts security and privacy first. Anyone truly serious about opting out of the big tech ecosystem should use it, and it's best experienced on Google's own Pixel devices.

https://grapheneos.org

/u/JonahAragon's comment is accurate. Your account needs to be verified with Uphold in order to receive deposits. In the future, we will be introducing other withdrawal options as well. For instance, you will be able to hook up an Ethereum address directly without having to sign up for an Uphold account. https://brave.com/brave-civic-partnership/

Thanks for the question, Two things:

1. At first, when you earn BAT, the BAT will be stored in your in-browser wallet. The anonymous, in-browser wallet is provided by Uphold (similar to an anonymous Coinbase account). We will provide you the ability to transfer the BAT from this wallet out into any arbitrary Ethereum address (after registering/KYC'ing with Uphold).

2. In the future (as announced here https://brave.com/brave-civic-partnership/), we will be providing an option for users to skip the in-browser Uphold wallet completely, and just have the earned BAT land in their Ethereum address directly. This will still require a KYC step, but it will be performed by Civic. This feature will come to publishers first, and then users afterward.

This is cool but $9.99/month is waaaaaay too ’s not even competitive pricing. Mullvad is $5.50/month and other logless VPNs like PIA and Nord are closer to ~~$2~~ $3.50/month with long-term subscription. Any of those can be used in conjunction with DNSCloak (free) for system-wide blocking. I understand that Brave aims to simplify the process but paying more than $6/month for a VPN is crazy. If anything Brave should be trying to undercut competitors on price to attract new users.

Edit: Fixed price.

The only accurate, close-to-real-time statistics are probably Android downloads from the Google Play Store (scroll down to the bottom). Otherwise, we've so far only relied on official Brave updates from either blog posts or Brendan's Twitter account.

Anyone else with other methods, feel free to add!

I love the TOR-tabs, but often when using it websites require 'are you human' verifications, and it is a bit slower etc.

I currently also have a VPN (ExpressVPN) but would love to replace it with BraveVPN and pay for it using BATs (eventually earned watching ads)

Some Free FB exposure! But seriously I just went to the real FB page and I mean I have more likes on my pages , for a tech savy company you should work on that. The way to increase likes and overall interest from downloads to twitter to Bat token holders is by taking an article like this on your page

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/05/24/brave-twitter-tip-cryptocurrency-token/

and creating an ad and "boosting" it to an audience you create. You would see the results in less then a week with as little as 2,000-2500 dollars.I have generated interest for publicly traded companies by doing this building shareholder base, liquidity, increase share value and helped one company raise 15 million just from FB exposure. It works!!

Just press on the BAT Icon in Brave and select "Add funds". It will show you a few crypto option to choose from.

You will see there an BAT adress copy that and send now the funds from Coinbase to your wallet.

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PS: If anyone hasn't done the quiz yet use my link and get your 10$ in BAT now. https://coinbase.com/earn/xlm/invite/0jghctf5

We do not store any personal data unless you switch on Sync or Rewards. But even if you do, Brave does not have access to data that are sensitive.

Here is how this works.

If a Brave user switches on Sync, then your bookmarks and passwords will be saved in an encrypted file on a cloud storage service, to which you will have the only decryption key. The data are entirely inaccessible to Brave and to the cloud storage provider. You can learn how to switch on Sync here.

If a Brave user switches on Brave Rewards you are assigned a “wallet” identifier by Uphold, our payments partner. But this is not tied to what you browse or do because your browsing is kept anonymous by Brave. We cannot trace contributions to individual users, or link any of your contributions together. So if there is a breach at Uphold or at Brave, your browsing details would not be at risk.

You can read about this in more detail here, and please give us feedback on whether that page is clear enough, too long, too short, etc.

That is only for content creators/publishers. Users will be able to just use the Brave Rewards wallet right inside of Brave (brave://rewards) which is provided by Uphold's infrastructure, but requires no registration and is generated the moment you enable Brave Rewards.

If you would like to take the BAT outside of the ecosystem (i.e., send it to a personal Ethereum address, for example), then you may need to complete some KYC with Uphold. However, for in-platform purchases, Brave Contribute/tipping, etc.

Note that earning BAT via Brave Ads has not been released yet, but is very close: https://brave.com/brave-previews-opt-in-ads-in-desktop-browser-developer-channel/

Any specific type of marketing you are wondering about?

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We have a marketing team, that is consistently fine tuning our message and finding new / better avenues to reach audiences. Just yesterday we announced a significant partnership deal with Cheddar. As always, there are more pigs in the basket, or whatever that metaphor is. Keep an eye out for more good things to come on this front. There are always exciting things on the horizon here 😋🌅

Actually, we are working a web accelerator, but without a proxy, it will all be done client-side to provide higher security and privacy to our users. It is a technology we are currently working on call SpeedReader (https://brave.com/speed-reader/). Basically after fetching just the initial HTML doc, the classifier determines what is actually needed and only fetches required sources (ignoring even things like CSS). This will drastically improve things for people on slower networks, or who just want a cleaner experience. Here are some stats from the above research post:

• average speedups ranging from 20× to 27×
• average bandwidth savings on the order of 84×
• number of requests is reduced 51× to 77×
• average memory reduction of 2.4×

Publishers and content creators will need to verify their channel before accessing Brave Rewards. All publishers will receive 95% of donations, with 5% going towards Brave for ongoing upkeep costs. It is our intention to minimize those fees as we grow.

Publishers that are not verified may already have tokens waiting to be redeemed. These token contributions will be held in a custodial wallet until the publisher verifies their account. Once the publisher receives BAT contributions totaling $10 USD, Brave will automatically send the domain contact an email notifying them of the funds waiting to be withdrawn.

You'll be able to withdraw it soon, just consider this a temporary compulsory HODL. You seem prone to making quick decisions without fully considering them when transferring your crypto so this might be really good for you!

This feature is not available in the current version of Brave. However, is planned for Brave 1.0 (Chromium release). Users will be able to add and edit the default search provider.

https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/3053

Thanks

Sounds lovely, but they are still waaaaaay slower at updating than Chrome. I'm pretty sure the next big update will make updates much faster, so the question is, when's that next big update?

Edit: https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

8 million users was reached on October 26th, 25 days ago. +1 million MAU (12.5% growth) in 25 days. Holy...

>Stupid Question

Not at all.
It is far better to ask than to be left wondering!

If you are a Brave user earning BAT for opting-in to see Brave Ads:

>At present, users who enable Brave Rewards in their Brave browsers will generate a unidirectional, in-browser BAT wallet with multiple funding options (e.g., BAT, BTC, LTC, ETH, etc.). Future updates will include a multi-directional wallet upgrade that will allow users to transfer BAT tokens—such as those earned via Brave Ads—out of the built-in custodial wallet in Brave (via Uphold), or bring their own Ethereum addresses.

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If you are a publisher or creator verified with Brave Rewards:
Any BAT you receive from BAT contributions, tips, or referrals will be deposited into your linked Uphold account on or around the 8th or each month in your currency of choice.

As per the official announcement:

>Starting today, users of Brave’s latest release of the <strong>desktop browser</strong> for macOS, Windows, and Linux can choose to view privacy-preserving Brave Ads by opting into Brave Rewards.

As a general rule of thumb, we roll out releases for desktop first, then mobile.

There is currently no way to tell how much a website has been tipped, or how many tips are pending to them.

In the past, we (on the backend) could actually see how many tips were outstanding for an unverified publisher, since tips to unverified publishers were held in a holding account. We now have a purely client-side flow where the browser simply keeps retrying the tip until the publisher verifies, so there is no longer a way to know how much BAT is waiting for them. Read more here: https://brave.com/faq-rewards/#unclaimed-funds

That said, there have been discussions about a privacy-respecting feature that would allow Brave browsers to attest to how many tips have been designated to unverified publishers. Aggregating these attestations would give us the total amount of pending BAT, even with the purely client-side flow (with no escrow).

Drink more coffee ☕️☕️☕️☕️

This is always an ongoing battle. For Brave, we have a dedicated research team, that spends significant time investigating web technologies, fine tuning performance, blazing new trails, and identifying changes in trends. They have been very helpful in helping improve ad-blocking on iOS, by web crawlers to identify ad-blocking rules we can exclude, and are currently building out technology to drastically improve web performance via SpeedReader (https://brave.com/speed-reader/).

On a more personal level, I find keeping up with just the cryptocurrency space (or even subcategories like cryptocurrency-economics) is pretty much unfeasible. I find one the best ways for me, is talking with knowledgeable people, preferably while drinking coffee. These people can often sift through the noise for me (even without knowing it), and often focus on the bigger items. I will occasionally attempt to drill into something specific (e.g. lightning network) and spend substantial time understanding the intricacies and sides. Like anything this combination gives a good breadth, while proving depth in specific areas.

Developers will be able to in their mobile apps with an SDK. Web developers/publishers/websites will be able to when we release Publisher Ads in the Brave Ads system. Read Phase Two of this blog post: https://brave.com/brave-previews-opt-in-ads-in-desktop-browser-developer-channel/

I would strongly recommend upgrading to the new architecture, which can be downloaded via the general download button on the official website. We will be auto-upgrading everyone to the new architecture within the next month. It's 22% faster as a baseline, and is not as resource-heavy since it's running natively rather than as an Electron-based app/browser.

https://brave.com/download

You should upgrade to the new Brave browser, as it looks like you're on the old legacy version (given the interface on the left side of your screenshot). I believe we shave off vertical height in the new redesign. At the moment, it should be approximately the same as Chrome's.

You can get the new browser here: https://brave.com/download.

And we'll be updating everyone from the old browser to the new browser automatically in the coming month or so.

Here's an excellent use case:

1. On your desktop computer, go to https://brave.com
2. Download Brave for mac or windows.
3. Install / open brave.
4. Activate Brave Rewards.
5. Claim your BAT grant.
6. Browse the internet.

There you go. Utilizing the token, providing real world revenue to real world publishers and creators, today.

Wrong,

See penultimate point on Brave FAQs

Can I refund money that I've placed into my Brave BAT wallet?

Not yet. The Brave BAT wallet is currently unidirectional, and its sole purpose is to anonymously and securely contribute to publishers of websites of your choosing. In the future, the Brave wallet will give users the option of going through a “Know Your Customer” (KYC) process in order to gain full control over their BAT wallet, including the ability to transfer BAT out of the wallet.

I work at Brave and am on the BAT team, and wanted to provide my own two cents on this.

1. It's amazing to be working for a company that is willing to take a position that is pro net-neutrality. https://brave.com/

2. If net neutrality is rolled back, strategic adjustments will be larger than BAT or Brave for that matter. Entities that aren't "team cable" will be impacted. Users that opt for Brave and BAT will be at an advantage to a degree by having less network requests and data transmitted (if "fast lanes" or higher cost per data tier models are enacted as a result).

So, long story short, the same strategic issues that we would face would also be faced by a majority of other entities out there that are "outside the tent" of "team cable".

All of that said, I would bet on our team coming up with creative methods for performance and data savings gains, as that is what we strive to do regardless of whatever the ventriloquist dinosaurs in congress have whispered in their ears from lobbyists.

Note: these are my views alone, and not representative of the official position of Brave or BAT.

Including an article: https://lifehacker.com/the-best-android-and-ios-apps-to-keep-your-data-private-1833838923

Mozilla I don't know. Afaik Chrome only blocks some ads: https://adblockplus.org/blog/what-will-google-chrome-s-new-ad-filter-actually-block-we-investigate

Besides this, Brave + BAT is much more than blocking ads. It's a new way of advertising and appreciation of good content.

The ads you are seeing on Gmail are likely 1st party ads, which Brave Shields do not block by default, as the assumption is that you have a consensual relationship with the sites you're visiting (just not with 3rd party ads/trackers, which are blocked by default). At this point in time, ads you see on publisher content are not Brave Ads, but simply 1st party ads of whatever site you are visiting.

At this time, all Brave Ads are presented in the form of native push notifications that, when clicked, lead to a full landing page in their own tab (note: they are not displayed on publisher content. This ad format will be introduced later. Learn more about Publisher-Integrated Ads here.)

What you should expect to see (example):

1. You enable Brave Ads in your browser in brave://rewards.
2. You begin seeing ads (in the form of system notifications) every so often during your browsing experience.
3. Each ad you see increases the Ad notifications received this month counter in your Brave Ads component in brave://rewards.
4. Each ad notification received increases your Estimated pending rewards count, in BAT.
5. On the Payment Date (the 5th of the month), you will see a button that says "Claim Ad Earnings". When you click this button, your earned BAT (in "Estimated pending rewards") will land in your Brave Rewards wallet and be reflected in the main balance in the top right. The BAT you earn by viewing ads will only show up in your main wallet balance once it is claimed on or after the 5th.
   

Hope this helps!

Some facts:

• There are two phases for ads on the roadmap. Read this: https://brave.com/brave-previews-opt-in-ads-in-desktop-browser-developer-channel/
• We are in Phase 1, User Ads.
• Ads you see elsewhere are Publisher-integrated Ads.
• Publisher-Integrated Ads are Phase 2.
• Ads you see in your email were placed there by the publisher, not by Brave.
• Only User Ads are rewarded during this phase.

Brave Ads officially went live in the release version of Brave on April 24th, 2019. (You can read our blog post about it here!)
So, no, you no longer have to use BETA to see ads and earn BAT (unless you want to). You can use the general release. :-)

Holli: Yes we are looking for a G/L accountant who will take on payroll for now, and ultimately need another staff person in HR due to the demands of employees, contractors and companies in multiple countries.
Please see: https://brave.com/jobs

You could verify your Reddit account with Brave Creators and then tip the BAT there. You would then link your Uphold.com account to Brave Creators, and your BAT would be deposited automatically into your linked Uphold account on the 8th of the month (the payout date for Creators).

Doing this would also set you up to receive tips from other Brave users to your Reddit account going forward. :)

Hello. I will pass this information on to the publisher team.

I also want to note that https is very easy to setup and free. https://letsencrypt.org/

You can also use services like cloudflare to get free TLS/https without even needing to configure much.

We've been ramping up in staff and infrastructure as we move forward toward 1.0.

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Having our UGP giveaways and referral program (https://brave.com/refer) have been good primers for dealing with big spikes in activity.

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We're also only initially rolling Brave Ads out to 5 regions: US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, which makes the volume less significant than if we were to deploy globally.

> How would they find out? are they emailed?

Token contributions will be held in a custodial wallet until the publisher verifies their account. Once the publisher receives BAT contributions totaling $10 USD, Brave will automatically send the domain contact an email notifying them of the funds waiting to be withdrawn.

We also see a lot of new registrations through the Brave Referral program and word of mouth (Brave users informing content creators of contributions made).

>How would they collect it? do they need to register?

Publishers require a website, YouTube channel or Twitch account. This process takes 5 minutes to complete.

https://publishers.basicattentiontoken.org/

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Hi Brendan,

My biggest concern is the high fee of 5% taken from the publisher contribution by Brave which is addressed here.

The last sentence reads:

>It is our intention to minimize those fees as we grow and realize economies of scale.

I find this to be honest somewhat vague. Have you come up with a plan, timescale, schedule, etc to address this issue? I think it would be preferable to a have clear condition based plan, for example:

If Brave has X amount of users, fees will be lowered by Y percent (if this, then that)

Please let me know what you think u/BrendanEichBrave

Cheers!

https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

Says "several months". The engineering team on it is big and going throttle on development for it. I've already seen it in action :).

I'm quite sure it'll be in 2018.

Hi /u/Sabatoooorr

Welcome to Brave :)

If you haven't already, find out how to become a verified Brave publisher and receive BAT donations through YouTube!

https://brave.com/blog/brave-expands-basic-attention-token-platform-to-youtube/

Me too. I bought a membership to ExpressVPN, which I learned about through Brave. Unfortunately, I didn’t do so by clicking on the ad. I tried finding it in my history to click through but wasn’t served in the past 7 days.

I love NordVPN for browsing the net, though I do not recommend it for gaming. Easy to use UI, CyberSec, built-in double VPN, and Onion Over VPN. You can even purchase the subscription with Crypto, if you so please!

I'm pretty much all in on BAT and have been for a while. I wrote a Steemit post about it last month when the price was 10 cents. https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@mike-mma/why-i-m-all-in-on-bat

I was on a stag do around that time and I offered to pay someone in BAT for a train ticket, when it was 7 cents. They all thought that was hilarious but I told them it would probably be worth 4x the £75 I owed him by the end of the year. I'm looking forward to seeing them at the wedding :)

Here is a list of exchanges that currently trade BAT: https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/basic-attention-token/#markets

Two popular ones are Bittrex and Liqui. You can also get some through Shapeshift.

https://brave.com/refer

You can still use the referral program even if you are in a region that is not supported by Brave Ads at this time. It is available for virtually everyone (Terms of Service apply).

After you verify your channel and opt-in to the referral promotion, you will see three metrics being tracked on the dashboard.

1. Downloads - Increments if a user you referred downloads the Brave Browser using your referral code.
2. Installs - Increments when a user opens the Brave Browser for the first time.
3. Confirmations - Increments after minimal usage of the Brave Browser over a 30 day period. Please note that the $5 BAT rewards are only given out for confirmations.

Referral Payouts

In order to claim referral payouts as fiat currency, you will need to link a verified Uphold account. These payouts will occur on the marked payout date listed underneath your BAT balance on the Rewards dashboard.

You can earn BAT by downloading the Brave Beta or Dev build. However, this release will only work for users in certain countries (US, UK, Canada, Germany and France.)

https://brave.com/download-beta/

https://brave.com/download-dev/

Minimum is 5 BAT per channel, so you're easily above that.

Maybe your Creator Account somehow got disconnected from your Uphold account.

You could try this: In your creator account, disconnect from Uphold. In Uphold, find the setting for Authorised Applications and remove the authorisation for 'Brave Rewards'. This is most easily done in Uphold's 'classic view' on this page: https://uphold.com/dashboard/profile/applications/authorized

Now go back to your Creator account and reconnect Uphold. This will re-establish the link and you should get your payment next month.

The second step (removal of the authorisation) shouldn't be necessary but if things somehow got out of sync it is just to ensure you start again from scratch.

Good luck.

First you will need to sign up with Uphold, and then link your Brave wallet to your Uphold account (available on desktop Brave or Brave for Android only so far - if you are on iOS this isn't possible yet).

Then it depends on where you live. If you are in any of the regions Uphold supports for direct withdrawal, you are in luck, and can send your funds directly to your bank account.

If you aren't in one of those regions there will be more work involved - you would have to find a cryptocurrency exchange that does support where you live, sign up with them, send your BAT from Uphold to that exchange, then withdraw from that exchange to your account.

Uphold also offers a debit card if you are in the US. It is not yet available to the rest of the world though.

Why do you think several exchanges are cutting off users from the US? Because they're getting called out on their lack of compliance.

Uphold on the other hand...

https://uphold.com/en/compliance

Regulatory compliance can be a very powerful factor and ones that normies are perfectly fine with.

Still a work in progress! The ads that pay you are currently being tested and previewed in our developer channel, with the paid versions coming in the near future. Here is the most recent announcement: https://brave.com/brave-previews-opt-in-ads-in-desktop-browser-developer-channel/

Hi Danny, I am not sure what you mean by a verified badge code. If you mean seeing "Brave Verified Publisher" and a blue checkmark in the tipping panel in the Brave browser, then that will appear automatically 24-48h after you verify your website for Brave users.

We also have some free images and media assets that you can put on your site to show that you support BAT and Brave: https://brave.com/media-assets/

Ah, yes, it looks like you're on the legacy version of Brave. We'll be updating legacy users automatically very soon, but if you want to be ahead of the curve, just download the new brave from https://brave.com/download. It'll install a separate one. Then, when you're setting up, just import your browser data from your old Brave (there's a simple one-click process), and it should bring all your history, faves, etc. over!

Stop spreading incorrect FUD.

See penultimate point on Brave FAQs

Can I refund money that I've placed into my Brave BAT wallet?

Not yet. The Brave BAT wallet is currently unidirectional, and its sole purpose is to anonymously and securely contribute to publishers of websites of your choosing. In the future, the Brave wallet will give users the option of going through a “Know Your Customer” (KYC) process in order to gain full control over their BAT wallet, including the ability to transfer BAT out of the wallet.

Thanks being part of Brave Payments! If you've verified your webpage, anyone who visits with Brave and has Brave Payments enabled in their browsers will automatically apportion some of their monthly donation budget to your site, based on how long they spend on your site. You can find more details here: https://brave.com/publishers

From the user's perspective: https://whatisbat.com/2017/12/06/how-to-spend-your-bat-brave-payments/

Primarily located at Brave HQ in San Francisco. However, Brave does offer employment opportunities to people around the globe, depending on the job criteria.

More from the Brave website

https://brave.com/jobs/

JeffMarrion, I recommend you check out the following information on Brave Publishers. Technically all websites by default will accept BAT payments in the form of donations.

https://brave.com/publishers.html

When contributions for a publisher exceed $100.00 USD, an email is sent to both the webmaster of the site and the registered domain owner from your WHOIS information.

This is one of the most exciting features about Brave Payments, since many website will be unaware on donations received. Publishers simply collect their aggregated donations after authenticating themselves.

It’s called Crypto Tracker Bot. Enjoy =]

iOS https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crypto-tracker-bot/id1320756750?mt=8

Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lwbrands.android.cryptotrackerbot

I would recommend anyone interested in this topic should definitely read Brave's two blog posts on the topic last year:

• Requirement Analysis of Decentralized Virtual Private Networks (dVPNs)
• VPN⁰: A Privacy-Preserving Distributed Virtual Private Network

But thanks for posting this video link anyway since I'd somehow missed the fact that Brave is research this (see my recent post here about Brave providing content recommendation). It is exciting to think one of these could be built into Brave at a future date and even more exciting to see Brave being a vector for decentralized technologies reaching you average consumer who knows nothing about it.

Right now, you can purchase BAT through cryptocurrency exchanges. The biggest one that trades BAT right now is Bittrex. There is also Liqui.

Here is a full list of exchanges that currently have BAT: https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/basic-attention-token/#markets

Right now, you have to have ETH or BTC first in order to trade for BAT. In the future (see the new announcements about BAT Mercury), you will be able to buy BAT inside your BAT Wallet which is built into the Brave browser with USD$, GBP and other fiat currencies.

Let us know if you need more help!

In general I'm happy enough with a word of mouth approach for getting people on Brave, at this stage. Organic growth has been strong and remains so.

However, I would like to see more marketing push at websites. When you look at BAT Growth, there's no way Youtube broadcasters should be that far ahead of websites. (They shouldn't be ahead at all). There are 1.8 billion websites and 23 million Youtube broadcasters.

I don't think the potential for earning money has been sold to website owners anywhere near enough. I have earned about 2500 BAT from doing very little over a couple of years.

Specifically - there should be a link at the bottom of Brave.com called "Affiliate". As a website owner, you're used to going to a site, CTRL+F and type "Affiliate", to see what's on offer. Pretty standard stuff. That should take you to a page which shows you how to get a banner and a clear explanation that you get $5 per referral. That's only if you don't want it on the homepage. IMO it should be a prominent part of the homepage too.

Also, at the moment, I can't tip unverified websites. It says tip has been sent but then it doesn't appear in my tips list on the reward settings page and my BAT wallet is unchanged. I really think it was a bad decision to introduce that 3 month limit on donations to unverified sites too. That needed to be 6 months absolute minimum so people have a good lump sum to motivate them to verify if they ever hear about the concept.

It would be nice, but it's currently not on the roadmap. The reason is that PayPal would have to accept crypto, or would have to operate an exchange service (like Uphold). That said, we definitely intend to integrate more vendors over time (Uphold will be one among several options). One of these options will eschew an exchange account altogether https://brave.com/brave-civic-partnership/.

Go to brave://rewards in your browser and it should be there :).

See: https://brave.com/brave-rewards for a visual introduction as to what you should expect. We even created a video so you could get started!

KYC will always be required insofar as the contributions you receive are not purely P2P (e.g., the user is themselves using a custodial wallet). The important words here are "yet" and "so far". We are introducing other options for withdrawal that do not involve Uphold. KYC will still be required, but the overall process may be simpler: https://brave.com/brave-civic-partnership/

From the official announcement post:

>Brave Ads are launching today in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K. More geographies will be available soon.

https://brave.com/brave-ads-launch/

The work to bring BAT-related functionality to Android is under way and we have targets for it :). First will come Brave Payments (the donation platform), and then BAT Ads (the part that allows you to earn BAT tokens for any ads you see).

You can watch progress on the Android codebase here: https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs

Also, we are currently hiring Senior Android Engineers. Please apply! It is a very, very nice job at Brave. https://brave.com/jobs/?gh_jid=1053060

u/Gizquier2 is correct. And in addition to receiving monthly $BAT contributions from users who choose to support your channel, you can partake in our current referral promo for creators: Brave will reward you with $5 USD in BAT for each user you get to switch to the Brave browser using a special link generated just for you!

You can get your referral link here: https://brave.com/refer

Soon, you will also be able to earn BAT by viewing ads in Brave, given you choose to opt-in to BAT Ads. :)

Any person that uses Brave and has payments activated and your channel included in their list of "payees", based on the time they spent in your channels you will receive a % of his BAT.

Is a summary, of course is more deep. ( you can choose what % to pay per included participant, etc)

https://brave.com/publishers/

Which, as I'm sure you know, will be resolved with Brave v1.0 slated for around this Fall, where we switch to a full Chromium front-end. https://brave.com/development-plans-for-upcoming-release/

Quickly, anyone who watches your YouTube videos regardless of where they are on the web (embedded on some other site or on your channel) will have the time spent watching your videos logged in their Brave Payments. Brave Payments is the contribution system built into the Brave browser.) Then, their monthly contribution budget will be donated to you based on time logged.

Users can also go into their Brave Payments and manually set amounts for you. So, someone can allocate 50% of their next monthly budget out to you if they want!

Your donations will be accumulating automatically in a wallet that is waiting for you. To claim your wallet, you just have to prove ownership of your YouTube channel. You can safely do this by going to https://brave.com/creators.

If you haven't done it and you have $100 worth of BAT built up in your wallet, you will receive multiple notifications telling you to come verify and claim it :). But since you already know about it, you should do it now! It will put a green check mark next to your YouTube channel so the community may direct their efforts to you!

Tangible. That was my word when a friend and I were discussing his xrp bet vs my bat bet. That was 4 weeks ago

Last night he went bananas and threw $1k of btc at bat.

There are politics in play here as well. Republican voters loathe google for /reasons. That's 50m+ adults. The story of my handle here is being suspended from twitter for quoting Aristotle... The world has gone mad, truly.

Personally I just got my son on Brave after a screen grab of earned bat.

Google's flank is extremely exposed and I hope the world wakes to take their privacy back.
And I just subbed to ProtonVPN, paid the subscription in mined bitcoin.

Yep, I encourage you to find out more about the project. Seems like you could be looking for more technical answers. If you have any, like how advertisements will work, etc., feel free to join the RocketChat and ask a team member!

As for the participation numbers, Brendan Eich himself stated that they recently have over 1 million active monthly users in the Boxmining YouTube interview. The only public numbers available are the Android downloads. Scroll down and you can see they hit the 1-5 million download mark. Just use that ballpark figure to guestimate totals between iOS, Windows, and Mac, and download totals would be probably 10-20 million.

Just last week, they gave away free BAT from their User Growth Pool (UGP), 300k tokens at 30BAT per user, which comes out to 10k users that could claim. I think they were all claimed in a single day. So the numbers all fit.

Feel free to ask more questions (around the sub) if you have them!

If you haven't already /u/upleasefeedmemore download Brave for your mobile :)

Android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brave.browser&amp;hl=en

iOS

https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/brave-browser-fast-adblocker/id1052879175?mt=8&amp;ign-itsct=1052879175-1052879175&amp;ign-itscg=0176&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Brave app installations are available from the Apple iOS and Google Play Stores. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brave.browser&amp;hl=en

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brave-browser-fast-adblocker/

We do not make public the number of users on Windows, OSX and Linux.

I would also go for the Bittrex exchange, however if you feel uncomfortable with it after recent account closures I would suggest to take a look at https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/basic-attention-token/#markets This shows all possible exchanges for BAT (I have had 0 problems with Bittrex, so that would be my go-to exchange, since I really do not like EtherDelta, Liqui has absurd fees and I do not have an account on the other ones).

I think that might be commercially unwise to reveal that.

However, incase you have not seen the below page:

https://brave.com/transparency/

Gives you an idea of the number of campaigns underway.

Ambiguous statement on your part. Not a lot of people are using the browser or the token? There are many many people using the browser and the token will follow soon.

https://brave.com/brave-reaches-8-million-monthly-active-users-and-delivers-nearly-400-privacy-preserving-ad-campaigns/

There are over 200k YouTube creators on the BAT platform. This will moon so hard it will be unbelievable. There is utility in this project unlike many others. I actually only use brave as my browser on all platforms.

I realize how much it has risen in the last few weeks. It has been an awesome ride. This post was meant to be solely for the CB launch. This launch was completely different than the ZRX launch. The day it was announced on CB Pro, the moment it was live on CB Pro with only a USDC pairing, how much it pumped before the Coinbase.com and App launch, the immediate aftermath. It has all been completely different then the ZRX launch. I'm interested to see if it pumps at all after the CB site / app launch similar to ZRX or if it will continue to drop in price. Just wondering what everyone's thoughts / opinions were.

I provided a response to the thread to help clarify. - We have not promised exclusivity. - We're inventory testing with a potential demand partner that is unfamiliar with our ad confirmation protocol that we use for anonymous accounting and campaign reporting. - This was one of the ads sourced through the demand partner as a part of the test. - If you'd like to run a campaign, feel free to sign up ( https://brave.com/brave-ads-waitlist/ ) to be onboarded with the next cycle. We're onboarding new advertisers that sign up every month while we work to make the ad platform available on all platforms and geos.

Hope this helps clarify. You can see my other post on this thread for additional clarification.

Adding to all of the above, Brave also has a referral promo going on designed specifically for content creators like yourself. You can earn $5 for every new user you get to download and try Brave for 30 days via a unique referral link. (Head over to brave.com/refer to sign up!)

So, imagine introducing Brave to your 3K subscribers and earning $5 per referral, then having those subscribers support you with BAT tips and contributions on an ongoing basis! Pretty neat. :-)

Finally, I recommend checking out our BAT Community YouTube channel for tutorials on how to verify your YouTube channel or website, how to customize your tipping banner (so that you can set custom tip amounts for your fans), etc.

No worries at all!

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I've been daily driving on Dev since January.

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I'll list out the release channels in order of least to most stable for everyone for reference:

1. Nightly Channel: Least stable, not for faint of heart. Use this if you decided to purchase a home on a fault line for occasional instability thrills...

2. Dev Channel: More stable than Nightly, but still not stable.

3. Beta Channel: Pretty stable, but still a little rough around the edges. Features have some polish, and early-stage bugs have hopefully been spotted and crushed.

4. Release Channel: Stable. This is what you receive when you go to brave.com and download from the download button.

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When a feature is introduced in Nightly, it takes roughly 6-9 weeks to make it to the Release channel. This may vary, but hope this helps.