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>Do the Brave folks get a cut of that money or is it completely peer-to-peer using a cryptocurrency network?

No, they don't take a cut if you fund your wallet directly and use it to tip the content creators.

>If it's the latter what's Brave's business model

Here is how they make money, just pasting my comment from below:

By default, ads are blocked, but users of Brave can opt-in to have privacy-friendly ads from the Brave network displayed on websites they browse.

Brave get 30% of the revenue from those ads, and the users get 70% of the revenue as BAT tokens

Users can then use those BAT tokens to tip the websites they like that signed up as Brave publishers (see a list here: https://batgrowth.com/publishers)

So the Ads / Get paid to browse part of Brave is 100% optional and opt-in, many people think it is mandatory

>Making it easier and faster to transfer small amounts of money online is definitely something that needs improving but unfortunately so far cryptocurrency-based solution haven't really managed to solve the problem, mainly because speculation makes them a pretty terrible currency. That's a tough problem to solve.

Yeah, I'm kinda fascinated about Brave's model, I'm wondering if it will be the first cryptocurrency-based solution that make sense to me

Click on the settings button on the top right --> Brave rewards --> add funds

>. I want to support people who offer services that I use. I don't want to prostitute my private life to do it.

You don't have to, just don't opt-in for Brave rewards (aka ads), and fund your tipping wallet with your money (you can as of today) and voilà !

You'll have:

- No ads, no trackers

- You contribute toward content creators with your cash like you do with Spotify/Netflix using a built-in wallet in your browser

- A fast and privacy-first browser

By default, ads are blocked, but users of Brave can opt-in to have privacy-friendly ads from the Brave network displayed on websites they browse.

Brave get 30% of the revenue from those ads, and the users get 70% of the revenue as BAT tokens

Users can then use those BAT tokens to tip the websites they like that signed up as Brave publishers (see a list here: https://batgrowth.com/publishers)

>To put it bluntly, that is their problem, not mine.

This reminds me of my friends that used to download games of thepiratebay because the gaming industry was a "flawed business model", but were still expecting content to be produced

If you don't support content creators with money, how can you expect content to be produced ? Content creators need to eat too, especially indie ones

>Based on the egregious attacks on privacy we've seen

I like how Brave tackle the privacy issue by displaying only privacy-friendly ads from Brave publishers network while giving a way for users to contribute towards content creator with the built-in tip feature. And this is a opt-in feature, so if you hate ads, you just don't have to opt-in and can still enjoy a fast and privacy-focused browser

I've ditched chrome 2 weeks ago, not going back anytime soon

This article is plagiarized on my Hackernoon article :

https://hackernoon.com/brave-browser-is-taking-the-web-by-st...

It's my default browser, apart from a few quircks, I love the speed of it, especially on my older android phone

I still switch to chrome when I'm working, because the developer tools are better in chrome (debugger, integration of lighthouse ect..)

>Wait so BAT with its $250M market cap has < 600 sites in the Alexa top 1 million??? That's like 6 hundreths of a percent. That's a terrible rate of adoption considering the hype behind BAT.

The script is still running at the moment, right now it's 600 sites in the top 230k, around 0.25%

The cron job should be over by tomorrow

Brave Browser / Basic attention Token is very successful although in it's early days

But Brendan Eich, the founder of the project, is much more experienced then any random ICO project founder in this space

I'm not sure he will succeed where Flattr failed, but we'll see !

Check out how many websites are already Brave/BAT publishers: https://batgrowth.com/publishers

Vice - freeCodeCamp - BitTorrent - xhamster - The Guardian - Washington Post - TinyUrl - JS Bin - Sitepoint - Smashing Magazine and much more are already verified publishers...

Even dappradar.com that was quoted in this thread !

Right idea, poor execution

Keep the name, people will remember you product

>How can a "legacy" project be using noSQL?

A project doesn't need to be 10+ years old to be legacy.

This API is 3y old, and was the first iteration, the v1, of the company's digital asset management API, it's only maintained for a few teams around the world, whereas the v2 is well crafted and has a way more logical datamodel

Legacy != old

>have a separate name for programs using NoSQL too?

Yeah, horrible legacy projects that are a pain in the ass to maintain

Source: I am working on a legacy API based on a noSQL database with a very dumb design (because the data was relational of course) in a very large company

>powder keg waiting to blow up

I don't get it, what do you mean ? Is this related to his homophobia ?

I don't understand why so many people can't judge Eich without pointing his homophobia, how is this even related to his tech abilities ?. The guy is a visionary, I mean he was defending privacy when privacy wasn't an even a mainstream issue, he invented in-browser scripting

BAT will be mainstream, no doubt about this !

The tech world too... All my freelance dev. friends are learning Solidity and blockchain programming.

It's the latest tech trend, like noSQL/mongoDB a few years ago

>likely only people interested in blockchain stuff has

Not sure, Furious Pete has moved his audience to Dtube and he is a fitness vlogger

>On that note, are there any mainstream blockchain based sites or apps right now? Would be interesting to know

I think that Circle is the most mainstream blockchain based app right now, because no one using it know that it's blockchain-based !

https://www.circle.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_(company)

This was literally their description on /r/Dtube

You are probably right, their wording is pretty confusing, with that part : "[...]and the STEEM blockchain"

The blockchain-based alternative to Twitter, peepeth.com is worth mentioning too

I've been using it since 10 days, it's really well made

> paying with cryptocurrencies or is the content delivery based on blockchains

Both

"Because of the decentralized nature of IPFS and the STEEM blockchain, D.Tube is not able to censor videos, nor enforce guidelines. Only the users can censor it, through the power of their upvotes and downvotes."

How do you know that ? Are you familiar with Dtube or steemit ?

As a Dtube user, It's true that there are more and more content creators everyday on the platform.

The amount of content is still veeeeery far away for Youtube's, I'm pretty sure Youtube/Medium/Twitter don't really care about their blockchain-based counterparts right now, because of how small and hard to scale they are

Probably due to the very efficient scripts + ads blocker

>mild Chromium fork

Mild ? For some reasons, it's like 5X faster then chrome on my laptop, Can't live without it anymore

>I've always loved Firefox. Had to switch to Chrome for stability and resource consumption

Have you tried brave browser ? It was created by Brendan Eich, the co-founder of Mozilla and I'm so happy with Brave browser right now, especially in terms of resource consumption, it's just so slick and fast

Yeah same ! I use it everyday, such a nice tool

>however, I started wondering if I shouldn't push her towards front-end

Yeah I would do the same

>i.e. HTML/CSS and eventually JS and a respectable framework or two. I did some substantial AngularJS projects a while back, so I could support her if we chose this direction. She is quite inclined towards design and has a good sense of color palettes, fonts, arrangements, etc. (IMHO).

Go for Vue, it's way easier to learn and to build small things quickly, and the doc is really well made so it will not be as frustrating as it could with angular

>Look at the coinbase horror stories - it's now well established if your money is stuck there, you must get the help from having a high post here on HN if you want a reasonable response.

There is a dozen of those stories for the 13 million registered users on coinbase, most people can buy & cash out without any problem

I've withdrawn money easily, all my friends too

It's the internet negative reviews biais

Of course, you needed to write down the code instruction in order to play video games in the 80's

Kids were only motivated by the idea of playing, like kids today, the difference is that nowadays you can just launch League of legends

I'll have a free month in 3 months, and I plan to learn smart contracts programming

>My biggest issue with blockchain is scalablity

Plasma MVP (built upon Ethereum blockchain) was just released. Plasma is supposed to be able to handle more then 1 million transactions per second, which is way more then what Visa handle right now

https://github.com/omisego/plasma-mvp

https://blog.omisego.network/construction-of-a-plasma-chain-...

> find a way to use it to distribute porn.

Or a way to use it to distribute drugs

Oh wait