Hey all!

I'm back, this time with a post on Brave/BAT, both of which I'm a big supporter and user of. 

After a few days of using the browser full-time(I've used it part-time, in the past), I'd like to share some quick thoughts with all of you.

Because of the surveillance economy that we live in, the Brave ecosystem is an inevitable solution to our problems. Hordes of advertisers, Google, Facebook, and all sorts of other digital businesses make a killing off of trading our personal data and we don't get a cut of it. That's how the internet has been, by-and-large, almost since its inception and most of the world has accepted it as a matter of course. 

Essentially, we risk having our identities stolen, over-and-over, and we never get compensated for that risk.

Brave and the Basic Attention Token have already begun to change that.

Yesterday, I discovered that you can choose how many advertisements you want to be shown in Brave. Wanting to see what my true earning potential would be, I chose the maximum, which was 5 per hour. Thus far, in roughly 7 hours or so of using the browser, I've earned about 1 BAT. With one report stating that Brave users could earn up to $224 a year, I'm trying to see if I can hit that goal. Simultaneously, I've begun to test what affects how much you earn per advertisement and I've noticed that it seems to give you a bit more if you spend more time on the ad's page. This, of course, would be logical if it was true since Brave and BAT's business model is based on incentivizing all of their user groups for their attention.

I know that it's early yet, which is why I'm only trying to see if I can hit the $224 target I mentioned above. I work on the internet. 

It shouldn't be impossible right?

Down the road, we'll see if I'm successful, but whatever happens, I still believe that Brave has the potential to disrupt the status quo completely.

Ask yourself right now:

Can it threaten Google, that has monopolized everything from our emails, to our searches, to what browser we use? Can it do so in a way that continues to incentivize the user's privacy above all else?

I think it can.

Brave has the skill of a talented team, several of whom are internet pioneers, a solid suite of privacy technologies that work in practice against the toughest trackers, and the added benefit that it can still offer advertisers more than the current dominant model of doing business.

Overall, I envision it as one of the future avenues for people to earn a sort of crypto-based Universal Basic Income. Think about how much time we spend on the internet and how many ads Brave could show each user if it had 100x the amount of partners that it has now. It's not impossible to develop this sort of thesis related to Brave's future value. 

People could go to work, then earn BAT in the evening as a supplemental income.

It's just a question of time.

Since Brave's trying to re-define how digital businesses of all shapes and sizes operate as well as our entire online experience, I'm putting a 10+ year time horizon on this sort of event taking place for the first time. Even so, I'm happy to be surprised and I still believe that it already represents the future of browsing and online business at large. 

What about you?

Do you believe in Brave/BAT?

Thanks for reading and remember, tips keep me going! Finally, you can always connect with me on Twitter @Expatcrypto3. 

-Expat