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I don't think this is how we reach people. The antivax people I know aren't won over by seeing a public health official on TV or in the news. The person most likely to reach them is their physician -- but only if they are a strong personality.

On the plus side, it may mean less vitriol in the comments section.

It's not the same thing. You can have one without the other.

There have discussions of requiring staking BAT for advertising on Brave search. Probably won't happen because BAT is meant to be a utility token and this could piss off the regulators.

> I think the general idea of earning tokens for searching and browsing is neat, but the way they're trying to use it directly as a microtransaction currency isn't super innovative.

Micropayments have never worked before. There's hope in the future if the network effect is strong we'll be able to pay a little bit of BAT for one NY Times article, etc.

> Crypto is pretty much a minor leftover relic of Brave's startup strategy

How do you think Brave makes money?

A lot of users post comments about Brave that are inaccurate. They haven't done their research because "crypto is a ponzi" and learning about crypto would make them complicit or something. Unfortunately, this sort of attitude makes you lazy and stupid.

Obviously we can talk about the merits of Brave here and ignore the standard one liners.

Fuzzy memory, huh? Machine learning is local. The data is never shared with Brave or advertisers.

Block ads and display opt-in ads as notifications. It's not a substitution or replacement.

I prefer to be paid with a revenue share. It's a better deal for me.

The money comes from advertisers. The advertisers pay Brave and then Brave buys BAT off the open market to distribute to users.

Which has to terrify Google: You don't need to have the best product to grow, get users, and improve.

You think Brave paying users to view ads and doing machine learning locally is worse than Google tracking you and showing you ads?

I think many are going to love this:

> We’re excited to announce the long-awaited beta release of an innovative new Brave Search feature: Goggles. Goggles will enable anyone, or any community of people, to create sets of rules and filters to constrain the searchable space and / or alter the ordering of search results. Anyone could then choose to apply a Goggle—or extend it—to their view of Brave Search results. Essentially, Goggles will act as a re-ranking option on top of the Brave Search index.

> Okay, they disabled some stuff. That isn’t a fundamental divergence from the upstream project.

They created a new ad model where users are paid for their attention.

I use this for Uber in the third world. Really helpful.

Have you seen the comments when one of Paul Graham’s essays is posted?

Isn’t it kind of strange to be hanging on a VC funded forum that supports crypto?

Most products aren’t important or useful. The public uses them because, well, it’s complicated.

Y Combinator was an investor in Coinbase and other crypto startups.

Sam Altman personally invested in Worldcoin.

You are posting on a forum of an incubator that supports crypto. The irony.

Facebook welcomes our return.

I made 18k betting Trump would lose the presidency with Polymarket. I literally took money from the world’s biggest morons. Feel pretty good about that.

Like spending many hours commenting on such topics on Twitter and HN?

People are naturally greedy. Plenty of developers sacrifice their relationships, health, and appearance for high comp packages.

Sam Altman invested in Worldcoin. And VC’s are investing in crypto startups as well.

Is there a YC partner that has never invested in a crypto company? I would love to know.

I assume when people say savings they mean investments. Because it would be stupid not to invest a large cash position.

Just short $MSTR. Easy.

There’s a lot of grumbling on HN and on Twitter but most won’t hear it.

People that are anti crypto are of strong conviction. I am sure they wish they could have their Michael Burry moment — if only it wasn’t for the damn volatility.

> Keith Baldwin, a 44-year-old surgeon who lives outside New Bedford, Mass., saved $177,000 during the past decade. Last year he took his savings and bought USD Coin, putting it in a crypto account that paid a 9% annual yield.

A surgeon saved 177k over 10 years? Something else might be going on here.

Perhaps they knew what they were doing just as startup investors take a calculated risk that their doggy social networking site might not be the next big thing?

Do you also welcome retail investors that haven’t heard of HN?