Happy Fifth of August everyone! What is the cause for celebration? Today I received my first payout from using the Brave browser. As I have discussed in my other posts and videos, I think that the Brave browser and the Basic Attention Token are a winning combination that will lead to a more widespread interest in crypto currency. From a business perspective, I also think it has the possibility to disrupt the existing advertising paradigm by paying people for their attention and giving them carefully chosen ads instead of spamming their browsers with an endless torrent of never-ending advertisements.

That is a subject for another day though. The purpose of today's post is to give a big thanks to the Brave and BAT team as well as the many video creators, blog writers, and Redditors posters who patiently helped me understand more about Brave / BAT and convinced me to use the browser. If you are on the fence about Brave, I encourage you to give it a try.

Many newcomers may wonder how much they will actually earn from viewing ads, so hopefully my experience will be insightful. I have used Brave for a few months but only enabled ads for this month. After only one month, I earned 17.8 BAT on my laptop which translates into about $4.20 USD. I also earned about 5 BAT ($1.20) from browsing on my mobile phone. Your earnings mileage may vary based on your browsing habits. Just as a heads up, I am in the middle of completing a capstone research project for my school, so I have been almost constantly using the internet for the past month. Fair warning - My earning are probably on the higher end of what most users will receive, but any free crypto is great!

Once again, a big thanks to the Brave team as well as the other enthusiastic users who promoted the browser and convinced me to use it. Hopefully, this post convinces someone else to give it a try!