$ (BAT) Basic Attention Token -

[hawaianlapulapu]

So you call this nonsense "passive income"?
Getting spammed by ads just to earn BAT?

Does BAT has any use case other than spam?

 

[Particle Bored]

So you call this nonsense "passive income"?
Getting spammed by ads just to earn BAT?

Does BAT has any use case other than spam?

Donating to madattheinternet.com or cashing out (or hodling before cashing out... please come back, 40-cent-BAT!).

Lets just be grateful Null hasnt been banned from Uphold.

 

[timewave0]

So you call this nonsense "passive income"?
Getting spammed by ads just to earn BAT?

Does BAT has any use case other than spam?

I’ve started using it to donate to the site. It’s a pretty minimal amount per person but I’m sure it adds up over time.

 

[itsoktobewhite]

Apple IOS proves yet again to be shit:

https://archive.md/Fv19Z

 

[Leo Bonhart]

Apple IOS proves yet again to be shit:
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https://archive.md/Fv19Z

It's a major blow to the adoption of BAT, to be sure. It's also beyond greedy on Apple's part which sees tipping content creators as some sort of Fortnite-situation where they're not able to control 100% of the money that moves through their operating system and so all toys need to be out of the pram right this instant.

On the very meager plus side, you can transfer out any iOS-accrued BAT in a one-time transfer to your desktop Brave browser and you can still let yourself see ads which produces revenue which I believe is distributed to any registered BAT sites according to how much of your browsing time was spent there. So, for example, if you earned 8 BAT during the month and spent half of your time on Brave-verified site 'CarlosDanger.com', they would receive 4 BAT.

We love our Tim Cooks, don't we, folks?

 

[geewizz]

i've started using brave because I can earn BATs to give to the farm, i've managed to give 5 BAT so far with another 5 coming in hot.
it's the least we can do to protect josh-kuns smile.

 

[Sam Losco]

Payouts are getting pretty bad.

 

[Oughtism]

Payouts are getting pretty bad.

What have your previous months looked like?

I just started about a week into December and this was my first payout.

 

[Local Fed]

What have your previous months looked like?

I just started about a week into December and this was my first payout.
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I'm not the one you were asking of course, but I looked through my history and here's what mine looks like. Note that I began part way through April of 2020 and my browser usage has been virtually the same month to month without exception. My last three months combined haven't even earned the same amount as my partial first month of use.

Month - Tokens Earned

• April (2020) - 12.25
• May - 28.25
• June - 27.75
• July - 26.50
• August - 21.00
• September - 5.00
• October - 7.50
• November - 2.00
• December - 5.50
• January (2021) - 4.50

 

[Sam Losco]

What have your previous months looked like?

I just started about a week into December and this was my first payout.
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I'm rounding to two decimal places for all these.

Jan: 27.2
Feb: 31.46 (message says this is for Dec but it came on 3/5 and I don't see one stating it's for Feb so I think this is actually Feb's).
March: 33.06
April: 34.28
May: 24.6
June: 24.13
July: 18.48
August: 7.25 on 9/6 with message saying it's for August ad earnings and 24.98 on 9/20, with the same message. So I guess 32.23 total.
Sept: 3.67
Oct: 2.73
Nov: 2.09

I rarely see an ad pop up now.

 

[Leo Bonhart]

There's been a nice BAT pump due to the big-brained antics of Eich & Co in truly making strides in the direction of a privacy-based Internet experience via a IPFS peer-to-peer networking protocol.
Verge Link

Brave has just taken a step toward supporting a decentralized web by becoming the first browser to offer native integration with a peer-to-peer networking protocol that aims to fundamentally change how the internet works. The technology is called IPFS (which stands for InterPlanetary File System), a relatively obscure transport protocol that promises to improve on the dominant HTTP standard by making content faster to access and more resilient to failure and control.

This explainer from TechCrunch offers a good overview of how the protocol works. But here’s the short version: while HTTP is designed for browsers to access information on central servers, IPFS accesses it on a network of distributed nodes. Vice likens it to downloading content via BitTorrent, rather than from a central server. You type in a web address like normal, and the network is able to find the nodes storing the content you want.

“IPFS GIVES USERS A SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF CENTRALIZED SERVERS CREATING A CENTRAL POINT OF FAILURE FOR CONTENT ACCESS.”
Benefits of the new approach include faster speeds because data can be distributed and stored closer to the people who are accessing it, as well as lower server costs for the original publisher of the content. But perhaps most importantly, IPFS has the potential to make web content much more resilient to failures and resistant to censorship.

Brave, which currently boasts 24 million monthly active users, has been an early supporter of IPFS, working on the standard since 2018. But with version 1.19 of the Brave browser releasing today, Brave users will be able to access IPFS content directly by resolving URIs that start with ipfs://. They can also opt to install a “full IPFS node in one click,” making their browser a node in the peer-to-peer network.

“IPFS gives users a solution to the problem of centralized servers creating a central point of failure for content access,” Brave CTO Brian Bondy said in a statement, adding that this gives Brave users “the power to seamlessly serve content to millions of new users across the globe via a new and secure protocol.”

IPFS project lead Molly Mackinlay adds that IPFS’s enablement of the decentralized web can overcome “systemic data censorship” from governments and Big Tech. “Today, Web users across the world are unable to access restricted content, including, for example, parts of Wikipedia in Thailand, over 100,000 blocked websites in Turkey, and critical access to COVID-19 information in China,” says Mackinlay, “Now anyone with an internet connection can access this critical information through IPFS on the Brave browser.”

This effort to make web content more resilient and unconstrained comes at a time when service and platform owners are facing tough choices about what content should remain online. Following the Capitol riot on January 6th, President Trump was silenced on both Facebook and Twitter, followed by the Parler app being pulled from both the Google and Apple app stores and Amazon withdrawing its centralized web services. A decentralized web enabled, in part, by IPFS would make that kind of control more difficult in the future.

 

[Alrakkan]

I rarely see an ad pop up now.

Idk I see ads pop up loads. Granted, I've not hit the 25 BAT validation benchmark but I've been chucking BAT at Null since I've been using Brave. I find that if I go a few days without turning off my PC I get like 12 BAT in that month.

 

[Sam Losco]

Idk I see ads pop up loads. Granted, I've not hit the 25 BAT validation benchmark but I've been chucking BAT at Null since I've been using Brave. I find that if I go a few days without turning off my PC I get like 12 BAT in that month.

Yeah, literally the day after I posted that, I started seeing ads a lot more.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

Finally got around to using Brave on my laptop, I'm getting a good amount of ads and I'm learning how to properly get BAT for interacting with them. I've had Brave on my (android) phone for a while but I was getting the "Ads aren't available in your area" thing, I'm not having that issue anymore so it must have worked itself out. I saw that I can synch devices and assumed that means your wallet automatically syncs, so I added Brave to my (old, senile) tablet and synched them all. On my phone and tablet my wallet is still at 0 on both but I'm thinking that might not be my ad revenue total, but where my monthly payouts would show up? I guess my question is when you have multiple devices synched do they all generate BAT for the same wallet?

 

[Kosher Salt]

Finally got around to using Brave on my laptop, I'm getting a good amount of ads and I'm learning how to properly get BAT for interacting with them. I've had Brave on my (android) phone for a while but I was getting the "Ads aren't available in your area" thing, I'm not having that issue anymore so it must have worked itself out. I saw that I can synch devices and assumed that means your wallet automatically syncs, so I added Brave to my (old, senile) tablet and synched them all. On my phone and tablet my wallet is still at 0 on both but I'm thinking that might not be my ad revenue total, but where my monthly payouts would show up? I guess my question is when you have multiple devices synched do they all generate BAT for the same wallet?

The short answer is yes, they'll generate BAT for the same wallet. Your wallet synchs through Uphold, though, separately from the browser's built in bookmark/setting sync. Click the orange BAT icon in the address bar on each device, and if it says "Wallet Verified" then the payout on that device will automatically go into your Uphold wallet. Otherwise it'll be paid out into the browser's local wallet (which is separate on each device), but if you later connect it to Uphold it should transfer the balance in your browser's wallet to Uphold within a month or two.

With multiple devices connected to the same Uphold account, I've found it's not uncommon to see the value displayed in the BAT popup to be incorrect, but when you go to your Uphold account it should always tell the correct amount (assuming there's no balance left in your browser's wallet; like I said, that should eventually transfer over to Uphold, but it can take a couple of months). I think Uphold has a limit of 3 connected devices.

Side note, interacting with ads doesn't change the amount you get paid; you get paid for seeing them, not for clicking them.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

The short answer is yes, they'll generate BAT for the same wallet. Your wallet synchs through Uphold, though, separately from the browser's built in bookmark/setting sync. Click the orange BAT icon in the address bar on each device, and if it says "Wallet Verified" then the payout on that device will automatically go into your Uphold wallet. Otherwise it'll be paid out into the browser's local wallet (which is separate on each device), but if you later connect it to Uphold it should transfer the balance in your browser's wallet to Uphold within a month or two.

With multiple devices connected to the same Uphold account, I've found it's not uncommon to see the value displayed in the BAT popup to be incorrect, but when you go to your Uphold account it should always tell the correct amount (assuming there's no balance left in your browser's wallet; like I said, that should eventually transfer over to Uphold, but it can take a couple of months). I think Uphold has a limit of 3 connected devices.

Side note, interacting with ads doesn't change the amount you get paid; you get paid for seeing them, not for clicking them.

Ah, thank you! I don't have Uphold set up yet but I'll do it as soon as I'm able. That will be a lot easier than keeping track of my local wallets on each device.

 

[Oughtism]

Next payout came today, went down from 12 to 9 BAT despite seeing/clicking twice as many ads. Oh well..

 

[Kosher Salt]

Next payout came today, went down from 12 to 9 BAT despite seeing/clicking twice as many ads. Oh well..

The price of BAT is also up 50% from last month, and that affects how much they pay out.

 

[Sam Losco]

Next payout came today, went down from 12 to 9 BAT despite seeing/clicking twice as many ads. Oh well..

Yep, despite noticing a large bump in number of ads I've gotten, my payout was 1.58 for Jan. Hopefully I'll get a second payout like has happened in the past because 1.58 is pathetic.

 

[Oughtism]

The price of BAT is also up 50% from last month, and that affects how much they pay out.

That is a fair point I didn't consider. I think BAT is tied to Ethereum (? iirc) and it has had a pretty considerate increase.

Yep, despite noticing a large bump in number of ads I've gotten, my payout was 1.58 for Jan. Hopefully I'll get a second payout like has happened in the past because 1.58 is pathetic.

Oddly, the estimated payout on my browsers for March is still ticking (i.e., didn't drop on February 5th) so who knows? There could be two payouts.



Regardless, I've gotten used to Brave over the last couple of months and I honestly think I prefer it over any other browser currently. And I'm sure if BAT increases in value, it will benefit Brave users in some way. Until then, I'm happy with the scraps I get.

On a side note, MATI streams in combination with Brave pushed me to start dabbling with crypto as an investment. Who knows, maybe I will owe them big thanks in a few years. (no optimistic emoji please)