A follow-up to Five Bitcoin and Ethereum Based Projects to Watch in 2016.

Brave (Bitcoin)

(Web browser )

Brendan Eich created JavaScript and then co-founded Mozilla where he worked on Firefox until 2014. Now he’s the CEO of Brave, a company building a web browser focused on speed and privacy. Brave already features built in ad-blocking, will soon support Bitcoin based micropayments and has received a misguided cease and desist letter from the publishing industry.

“We do not tamper with any first-party publisher content, including native ads that do not use third-party tracking,” Eich said in response to the letter.

Brave’s ad-blocking users will be able to block ads by making micropayments. Ad-replacement users will see clean ads served from the Brave network and receive 15 percent of ad revenue. Publishers will receive at least 55% of ad revenue according to BitcoinMagazine.

Brave Ledger’s documentation explains; money enters the system through ad-free users making payments and advertisers making payments based on the number of ad impressions served by Brave. Money leaves the system through a percentage of advertiser payments being paid to ad-replacement users and publishers receiving a share of the aggregated payments associated with users who visit their site.

Brave already stands on its own as a high quality web browser, successful integration of Bitcoin micropayments could increase its disruptive potential.

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