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A major idea behind the software is that you can automatically tip websites or creators that you frequently consume.

These amounts are pretty small.

If PayPal or credit card were used (without prefunding things) you'd have most of that money eaten up by transaction costs.

As others have mentioned, this does seem to be a "real" use for crypto currency to achieve microtransactions.

Which can both suspend payments and tie up your money for {{ whatever_reason }} leaving the whole project dead.

I think BAT was a good call. One of the few real use cases so far for a cryptocurrency.

You can buy BAT tokens with credit cards or PayPal