$ (BAT) Basic Attention Token

[Helicopter Pad]

Tip for anyone who is getting a "Sorry! Ads are not yet available in your region." message despite being in one of the available regions (US, UK, Canada, France, Germany); try switching to the Dev version, this seems to fix that problem for most people.

 

[loli]

Sorry if this has been asked already, but does anyone know how you earn BAT if you're using Brave on Android?

I've clicked a couple ads and still have 0.00. Do the ads only give you batshekels if they're on normalfaggot websites?

 

[Beluga]

Donated 15 BATs that Brave mobile gave me at random although there are still no ads available in my area. It's not much but hopefully it'll help @Null!

 

[niggers]

you have to opt in and get approved for this tip thing right? like they have to manually OK you?

with that in mind, have the brave people started getting harassed by a certain on-the-dole englishman yet?

or has anyone accused them of literally murdering a billion trannies a day?

 

[Haunter]

you have to opt in and get approved for this tip thing right? like they have to manually OK you?

with that in mind, have the brave people started getting harassed by a certain on-the-dole englishman yet?

or has anyone accused them of literally murdering a billion trannies a day?

You just go to the settings and turn it on. There's no approval process, or anything.

As for the murdering trannies thing, I doubt it. This is run by the guy that created Javascript, Firefox, and a bunch of other stuff. He's got alotta money behind him.

 

[Medicated]

Is there is anyone or any place where I can get a concise summary of what BAT is and how it works as well as the Brave browser? I would like to support this site.

 

[Particle Bored]

you have to opt in and get approved for this tip thing right? like they have to manually OK you?

with that in mind, have the brave people started getting harassed by a certain on-the-dole englishman yet?

or has anyone accused them of literally murdering a billion trannies a day?

You only have to get approved to receive tips. I dont think it's manually reviewed though. You have to sign up with Brave Creator Rewards and Uphold and then you can just link your channels/sites from their dashboard. I linked up my twitch and YT channels (that get almost no use) just so I can tip myself, and a brand new blank YT channel so I have an "anonymous" referral link. You dont need any kind of sign up or approval to farm BAT from clicking ads or to tip.

 

[Least Concern]

Is there is anyone or any place where I can get a concise summary of what BAT is and how it works as well as the Brave browser? I would like to support this site.

BAT, Basic Attention Token, is a cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin. A cryptocurrency is a token/point system which usually runs on top of a distributed database called a blockchain which, under ideal conditions, tracks the tokens that everyone using the currency has access to and makes it impossible (or, at least, impractically difficult) to access someone else's tokens, send someone else the same tokens twice (double-spend), or do other things you generally don't want people to do with money. People can use services called exchanges to trade their tokens for "real" currency like US dollars or vice versa.

BAT is integrated with the Brave browser. Web site operators, or webmasters, can mark their sites as accepting of BAT tokens. If they do so, Brave will track how long a user spends on that site and send a corresponding amount of BAT to the webmaster as "payment" for their usage of the site; you can also manually tip a desired amount to a webmaster directly. The BAT you send will either be purchased by you manually or allotted to you after you see ads sent to you by the Brave company.

 

[Medicated]

BAT, Basic Attention Token, is a cryptocurrency, like Bitcoin. A cryptocurrency is a token/point system which usually runs on top of a distributed database called a blockchain which, under ideal conditions, tracks the tokens that everyone using the currency has access to and makes it impossible (or, at least, impractically difficult) to access someone else's tokens, send someone else the same tokens twice (double-spend), or do other things you generally don't want people to do with money. People can use services called exchanges to trade their tokens for "real" currency like US dollars or vice versa.

BAT is integrated with the Brave browser. Web site operators, or webmasters, can mark their sites as accepting of BAT tokens. If they do so, Brave will track how long a user spends on that site and send a corresponding amount of BAT to the webmaster as "payment" for their usage of the site; you can also manually tip a desired amount to a webmaster directly. The BAT you send will either be purchased by you manually or allotted to you after you see ads sent to you by the Brave company.

So where do the tokens come from if Brave is tracking and rewarding them to webmasters?

 

[Particle Bored]

So where do the tokens come from if Brave is tracking and rewarding them to webmasters?

Tokens come from:

1. buying on exchanges
2. clicking ads
3. grants from Brave team

Tokens go to the user. User tips to creators.

 

[Least Concern]

So where do the tokens come from if Brave is tracking and rewarding them to webmasters?

If what you're asking is "how are the tokens that the Brave company is distributing generated," they're not. I just had a quick look at the whitepaper (kind of like an introductory essay) for BAT and it says that there is a cap of 1.5 billion BAT. So the ones they are giving away are ones that they allocated to themselves when they initialized the token.

 

[TheBeanz]

So far I have Brave & Uphold. Really impressed with the browser, it's the fastest internet I've ever had.

Uphold is nicely designed too.

Am I right in thinking now Brave & Uphold are linked, I'll earn a small amount of BAT tokens from ad clicks which will be transferred to my wallet, which I can use to trade?

Sorry if that's a noob question or anything, but this is literally my first step into anything resembling crypto.

 

[Just A Butt]

Am I right in thinking now Brave & Uphold are linked, I'll earn a small amount of BAT tokens from ad clicks which will be transferred to my wallet, which I can use to trade?

I'm rather new to this myself, but Brave will give you approx 0.05 BAT per one of their ads. You don't even have to view the whole thing, just click the little arrow on the top-right of the popup (which pops in the bottom-right of the screen) however if you "close" the ad, I don't think you get credit for it.

As others have said before me, make sure to go into the ad settings and change it from 2/hour to the max 5 if you want to get the most out of it.

ETA: You don't get the tokens right away. They are deposited once a month, I think the default date is the 5th.

 

[TheBeanz]

I'm rather new to this myself, but Brave will give you approx 0.05 BAT per one of their ads. You don't even have to view the whole thing, just click the little arrow on the top-right of the popup (which pops in the bottow-right of the screen) however if you "close" the ad, I don't think you get credit for it.

As others have said before me, make sure to go into the ad settings and change it from 2/hour to the max 5 if you want to get the most out of it.

ETA: You don't get the tokens right away. They are deposited once a month, I think the default date is the 5th.

Just taken a look at that, I have 0.1 BAT already and I've only had it an hour. Thanks for the advice on upping the ads, I thought 5 an hour might get annoying but to be honest I haven't actually seen any yet, despite my earnings section telling me that I must have viewed 2 ads if it's 0.05 BAT a pop.

 

[Particle Bored]

If what you're asking is "how are the tokens that the Brave company is distributing generated," they're not. I just had a quick look at the whitepaper (kind of like an introductory essay) for BAT and it says that there is a cap of 1.5 billion BAT. So the ones they are giving away are ones that they allocated to themselves when they initialized the token.

If I recall, according to CoinMarketCap 1.2bil are already in circulation. If Brave/BAT takes off, I wonder what the value will shoot up to. (who knows if the "in circulation" also includes their Brave reserves)

So far I have Brave & Uphold. Really impressed with the browser, it's the fastest internet I've ever had.

Uphold is nicely designed too.

Am I right in thinking now Brave & Uphold are linked, I'll earn a small amount of BAT tokens from ad clicks which will be transferred to my wallet, which I can use to trade?

Sorry if that's a noob question or anything, but this is literally my first step into anything resembling crypto.

I dont know if just Brave users can get at their BAT for trading. I think it might stay in the browser wallet to just be used for tipping. To get it to Uphold for trading or transferring to another wallet/exchange, I think you need to sign up with Brave Creators and it needs to get to you via being tipped by other users. Thats why I linked my YT account, so I can tip to myself and extract to exchanges.

 

[Nekromantik]

I've been using Brave for a few days now, but for some reason after a while I stop getting ads pop ups. Any one else have this problem?

 

[Just A Butt]

I've been using Brave for a few days now, but for some reason after a while I stop getting ads pop ups. Any one else have this problem?

I've noticed a drop-off after a while too. I assume there's some kind of daily limit, but I cannot confirm this.

 

[Haunter]

I've been using Brave for a few days now, but for some reason after a while I stop getting ads pop ups. Any one else have this problem?

I've noticed a drop-off after a while too. I assume there's some kind of daily limit, but I cannot confirm this.

Are you guys using the normal version? I wasn't getting any, so I switched to the Dev version at @Helicopter Pad's recommendation above, and now they're mostly regular (just got one for "Coin Clear").

Maybe there's some regional differences that are effecting stuff like the ads' frequencies? I didn't get any til a few days after people here were talking about their's.

 

[Just A Butt]

Are you guys using the normal version? I wasn't getting any, so I switched to the Dev version at @Helicopter Pad's recommendation above, and now they're mostly regular (just got one for "Coin Clear").

Maybe there's some regional differences that are effecting stuff like the ads' frequencies? I didn't get any til a few days after people here were talking about their's.

I’m using the “regular” version. Haven’t had problems with it except for the drop-off.

I did a cursory search and found a few claims of a 20 per day ad limit. But nothing from the dev team that confirms this.

If the dev version comes without limits, though, I’ll switch.

 

[Nekromantik]

Are you guys using the normal version? I wasn't getting any, so I switched to the Dev version at @Helicopter Pad's recommendation above, and now they're mostly regular (just got one for "Coin Clear").

Maybe there's some regional differences that are effecting stuff like the ads' frequencies? I didn't get any til a few days after people here were talking about their's.

I'll give it a shot and see if it's better.