I started using the Brave Browser before The Plague. I liked its privacy features and simplicity at the time as a Firefox alternative with a built in wallet (MetaMask extensions were so unreliable then), with the bonus of ad-blocking turnt all the way up. I barely cared when the ERC-20 Basic Attention Token (BAT) was launched as an earnable token for watching browser-exclusive ads that were mostly tech startups. But the onboarding was easy enough and BAT became an easy sell to normies who would otherwise avoid crypto.
The amount of tokens earned from 3-4 hours of web surfing a day was good until it wasn’t. The payout mechanism was never transparent and we all had to trust that there was actual liquidity behind the token. This is pure conjecture on my part with no hard evidence but the fact that BAT was a featured token pushed hard on the Winklevoss Twins much-maligned CEX Gemini makes me feel like the token’s liquidity mainly came from the retail investors who traded this token’s price up. To this day, I only occasionally use Brave as there are other far superior browsers. So the most I’ve ever earned lifetime in BAT is about $25 USD.
$2500 if retail buys it up to 100x current mcap lmao.
BAT as a token and project gets ⭐️⭐️ for me. But for taking a risk in tokenizing user value in then-uncharted space and for lasting this long, I grant it an extra ⭐️ for a total of ⭐️⭐️⭐️. Show Less
