AMA: Highlights from Jan Piotrowski, Brad Flora and Des Martin’s BAT Community AMA

The ongoing AMA series on Reddit is an eight-month-long event that features various guests from the Brave and BAT teams. The goal of the series is twofold: to give fans of the project an opportunity to interact directly with team members, and to give team members—especially those who operate largely behind the scenes—a chance to share their insights and offer the community a window into their work.

See the highlights and find the full AMA here.



CREATORS: The BAT & Brave Rewards Creators dashboard gets a fresh new design!

Lookin’ cleaner than your church shoes, ah!

Check it out here.



INTERVIEW: Des Martin, Business Development at Brave, discusses Brave & why privacy matters in digital advertising at TVrise 2019 (video)

Watch the interview here.



COMMUNITY: Groupe officiel (Telegram) de BAT pour la communauté francophone / New French BAT Telegram (official)

Rejoignez-nous: https://t.me/BasicAttentionToken_FR



CREATORS: The LA Times (latimes.com, one of the largest newspapers in the US) has verified with BAT/Brave Rewards and is now accepting Basic Attention Token tips (BAT)

https://t.co/M6Ud4NlgA0 is now a verified #Brave browser publisher. Alexa Rank: 1595 — batgrowth.com bot (@batgrowth) April 11, 2019



CREATORS: MyCrypto.com (main MyEtherWallet fork) is now verified with BAT/Brave Rewards and accepting BAT tips!

MyCrypto is a verified publisher on @brave!



Huge thanks to those who have tipped us – it's greatly appreciated. pic.twitter.com/0nLcHdBiFP — MyCrypto.com (@MyCrypto) April 9, 2019



BAT Community Merch Giveaway Winners!

The winners for our BAT Community Daily Merch Giveaways for this week are:



Monday (Reddit): u/Qurro

Tuesday (Twitter): @ericaltm

Wednesday (Facebook): David Sorge

Thursday (Contributor Special): u/Custom

Click here to see pics of previous giveaway winners rocking their BAT/Brave merch!

Be sure to tune in to our social media channels every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday to participate in our daily merch giveaways for your chance to win!



Client Updates

Desktop v0.62.51

Beta Channel v0.63.35



Dev Channel v.64.40



Brave Team Tweets

Btw as we scale, payout will be unpredictably spread to avoid dumping the market or being front run. — BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) April 10, 2019 Payouts will be spread over time.

Ads appear as OS push notifications while you browse. Can take up to 45min or so in some cases for the ads to display.



The browser learns from your browsing, determines, the best opportunity to display the ad.



Ads click through to a full page private ad tab. — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 5, 2019 Great things take time: Ads can take up to 45 minutes to display.



Brave is hiring a devops build engineer! Must be willing to work 9:00-17:00 Japan time. https://t.co/amzdLU9yLv — yan (@bcrypt) April 11, 2019 Like working Japan time? Brave is hiring!

If only there were a system that broadcasts what every citizen is reading, watching, and listening to the web without any security whatsoever. Real-time bidding, for example. Ahem. https://t.co/SvTY2UExZ0 — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) April 8, 2019 Real-time bidding = Big brother?

April, 2016.



April, 2019: Nightly, Dev and Beta @Brave channels all have Brave Ads integrated for users that opt-in for private ads with @AttentionToken rewards.



Time remains in April to add another channel on the list.



Chrome is selling you out.



Get @Brave. Earn $BAT. https://t.co/bppLxXNi2k — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 10, 2019 Hmm… Are ads coming to the release version of Brave?

– No rewards for clicking on ads.

– Users are rewarded for viewing the ads (notifications).

– Users are opting in to see ads, the baseline reward is viewing the notification, whether in situ or system tray.

– This is only v1 we are talking about, fundamentals are focus. — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 10, 2019 Luke does a tweet thread on ads, starting here:

You will see something resembling this when we release publisher ads later this year. — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 10, 2019 Something similar to on-page ads is coming later this year.

"…BAT wallets on Uphold accounted for 13.4% of ALL transactions over the last year (including all currencies). That is more BAT to BAT than USD to USD and less than 1% behind bitcoin to bitcoin."



Revolutionizing publishing and advertising https://t.co/h8cgNUGHZa — Sampson (@BraveSampson) April 11, 2019 BAT transactions are adding up.

Very, very soon, brands will see that they create their best campaigns with @Brave and @AttentionToken



Early adopters in the space get the most say early on, and best test and learn benefits.



Those late to the game can still participate, with a premium rate card. 😉 — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 11, 2019 Soon, brands will create their best campaigns with Brave and BAT.

Reminder: our elections are vulnerable to sabotage until we fix online ad auctions, because every voter can be profiled by unknown actors slurping ad auction data about their online habits. #AdTech companies, @IAB, @IABEurope, @Google have to fix this. https://t.co/fynj9FsjBk — Johnny Ryan (@johnnyryan) April 11, 2019 Johnny on elections and sabotage using ads.

One of the great things about testing the @Brave #Ads platform early in our Nightly/Dev/Beta channels is the opportunity to try out some different use cases for our go to market ad unit. This tweetstream covers a recent test to use our ads as Social Drivers.



Here we go… — Luke Mulks (@lukemulks) April 12, 2019 Luke starts a tweetstream about a recent test to use ads as Social Drivers.



BAT/Brave in the News

Major Browsers to Prevent Disabling of Click Tracking Privacy Risk

Going forward, if privacy is important to you and you want to reduce the risk of being tracked online, then you will need to use Firefox or Brave.



Read the full article here.



News You Should Know

Here’s The Shocking Reality Of Completely Blocking Google From Your Life

How deeply does Google penetrate both your internet life and your real life? Maybe you’ve been considering ditching Google search for Duck Duck Go, or trading in Google Chrome for a privacy-respecting browser like Brave? Perhaps you want to separate yourself from Gmail and Google Maps? Those are all worthwhile endeavors, but what happens when you actively block all of your devices from even pinging Google’s servers? Apparently, nothing short of nightmare fuel.

Read the full text here.



Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa

Millions more are reluctant to invite the devices and their powerful microphones into their homes out of concern that someone might be listening. Sometimes, someone is.

Read the full text here.



Roaring Fans

So I've just switched my browser from Chrome to @brave and already love it 🦁Instantly transferred all my bookmarks and definitely feels quicker, achieved by preventing unwanted tracking and ads- you even get your stats when you open a new tab 👇Will also try on my phone pic.twitter.com/FCD2CqTRDD — Anna Watson (@AnnaHolliday) April 10, 2019

In love with @brave browser for its speed and emphasis on privacy. https://t.co/WIsJ21ro1I Reminds me of how chrome replaced IE for me years ago. — Grace Zhai (@grace_zhai) April 10, 2019

Just wait. The heard is coming trust me. There is simply NOTHING like the @brave and @AttentionToken project. It is literally game changer ready to take over a massive market. $BAT pic.twitter.com/YzO62TxPZ0 — Shadowbanned @Cameron (@shitcoinprotips) April 10, 2019

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