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Any details from verified creators or Brave directly regarding revenue? Even if it's tiny right now, it would be great to hear some data from anyone giving it a real go.

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As one datapoint over last ~3 weeks or so I've accumulated 20ish BAT (~$5) from a combination of 1) ads shown to me, 2) tips from people to my twitter, 3) automatic monthly contributions from other users, presumably based on them spending time on the pages I've registered for rewards. In turn my auto-contribute settings (left at defaults) are to distribute up to 20BAT/month on sites I visit the most (e.g. DDG, HN, Github, Twitter, ...), which will happen automatically on Dec 15.

Agree with some of the other users that the tooling around the rewards is still a bit hard to navigate. There's the separate Uphold account, from which I seem to have to manually move BATs around to my browser wallet (?), I'm getting BATs from sources I don't fully understand, I don't think there is a page that just shows the timestamped deltas (debit/credit) etc.

Excuse my ignorance, but why are you rewarding Github and Twitter, which have enterprise/private business models not entirely based on ads ?

I find the simple idea appealing that I don't have to spend too much energy on who to reward or not reward. I reward anything that I find valuable enough to spend my finite attention on. If companies started to receive sufficient profits from this stream they would feel less incentive to implement the other (often dirtier along multiple axes) monetization strategies. But I would be very curious to hear other people's "policies" on how they tune these allocations.

They did an AMA recently on Reddit where they go into the payment positives in detail, of course they skipped the negatives like they are playing ads on your desktop outside of the page.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/7l4033/transcri...

Yeah, last time I tried to switch to Brave the desktop ads really skeeved me out. It's a shame. They should know that their target segment of users would be particularly offended by those.

You can opt out of the notification ads.

You have to opt in to the notification ads in the first place.

I've started accepting BAT since January, and so far has received about ~35 BAT ($9.00) on my ~1 million pageview website. I have not done anything to promote Brave on the site (basically verify the website with Brave and that's it) so actually getting paid is quite surprising.

I'm using Firefox as my primary browser, though.

From my previous: "We've still got BAT enabled on PortableApps.com with the standard custom Brave browser header and donation ask you setup via their program. We got 31.35 BAT (about $8.08) for around 2.7 million page views in the last month. We also got a single 0.95 BAT (about 24 cent) donation."

For me so far one month = $2.24 based on current BAT value. There are people making more than me who spend more time on the web.

just a couple of bucks. you can earn from both visitors and from referral link downloads. system is kind of fun and it incentivizes you to promote browser downloads

I have it set up on Tildes (https://tildes.net) so that I can receive BAT from Brave users, but haven't really put any particular emphasis on it.

So far the site's account has a balance of 258 BAT, which should be worth about $50 USD right now. The "Brave Creators" interface is so bare-bones that I can't figure out what kind of rate that's come in at though. It says that 60.50 of it is from the "Current Period", but I don't know what that means.

Trying to set up the process to actually be able to withdraw the BAT has been annoying and has gotten hung up at multiple points with no indication of how long it'll take until it moves forward. At this point I don't even really think of it as money that I have, because I have no idea how many more steps I need to go through to be able to convert it to actual money, what that process will involve, or how many more fees will be taken on the way.

Did you set up an Uphold account and link your Brave wallet to it? That should pretty much be the end of it; should be straightforward from there to send/exchange the BAT elsewhere.

As your browser receives BAT on the 5th of every month, I think that's also when your Creator account receive tips, but I haven't confirmed that. The UI really is bare-bones and my site doesn't receive enough traffic to speculate further.

Yeah, setting up the Uphold wallet was the main annoying part. For example, I tried to set it up on my PC but couldn't, because it required me to "take a selfie" and my PC doesn't have a camera.

It should all be set up now, and the Brave Creators site says that my payout is in the "Reviewing" stage, so we'll see how it goes from this point.

"Making side money as a content creator with Brave & Basic Attention Token has made me more in a month than any ads or Youtube paid me out in several years. Thank you BAT !"--https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/e532bs/making_s...

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