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Anyone else believe in Basic Attention Token (BAT)?

It has one of the best teams of all time behind it, lead by Brendan Eich the creator of Java Script and cofounder of Mozilla and Firefox. And the idea behind it with the Brave browser is amazing. I really think this coin will be the big winner in 2017. It got into the top 25 spot in marketcap on the first day ( it released 2 days ago) and has stayed around there. The price is still low, but I think it will skyrocket once the coin lands in more exchanges so one should buy a bunch before that happens.

I think this coin also broke a new record by raising $35 mill and tokens sellin out in 30 seconds: http://www.coindesk.com/35-million-30-seconds-token-sale-internet-browser-brave-sells/

"Overall, the sale for Brave's ethereum-based Basic Attention Token (BAT) generated about $35m and was sold out within blocks, or under 30 seconds. One buyer went so far as to purchase 20,000 ETH (or about $4.7m) worth of tokens – designed to monetize online attention and create a new revenue source for publishers.

Another buyer paid more than $6,000 in ethereum mining fees to almost guarantee their place at the top of the line."

You should watch the latest Epicenter podcast where they interview Brendan Eich and see yourself the potential of this coin: https://epicenter.tv/episode/185/

When and where is it being traded?

No. The only reason it made such big news is because of a big name dev behind it and the drama over the ICO. Google has already announced that they're going to implement most of the things that BAT proposed (minus the token gimmick, they don't need it lol).

I think a lot of people just fell for the marketing that there would be huge money in BAT because advertisers with big pockets would buy in. I just don't see that happening. I also don't see mass public adoption of a new browser (I know having Brave isn't a requirement because extensions, but still).

Overall, it might do alright in the market due to speculation, but I definitely don't see it becoming #1 with so many better projects coming out soon.

mnemonicsoup: You can see the markets to buy it at here: https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/basic-attention-token/#markets

TKeenan: Can you give a link to this supposed Google announcement you speak of?

helo,,
you can trade  Basic Attention Token (BAT) on Liqui, Bter and Ether delta
thank you

Supply more than 1 billion, it will take time to rise again :)
I'll just buy it at a cheap price

It is already dirt cheap. Should have bought when I made the post, now the price is up almost 40% already and marketcap increased with about 100 mill and it climbed up to place 23 in top coins. It has not even hit any of the big exchanges yet so there is still time, once that happens it will explode.

It's not sustainable price. It's better to wait for the correction. This coin will easily go under 10 cents. And it will probably never hit big exchanges.

BAT hit Bittrex exchange last night, causing the price to rise roughly 30%, I believe the price will increase even more once other exchanges like Kraken or Poloniex will list the coin.

I heard over 90% of BAT is controlled by Chinese whales. I don't think Poloniex will list it.

who in the world would use a "privacy oriented browser" to go watch advertisements ?

overrated overvalued project that when gets implemented will be ruled by browse bots to leech them advertisers.

quoted from the brave website:

I would if the payouts where alright and the advertising environment decent with non annoying ads. The idea of cutting out the middlemen and giving the advertising money to the actual users is genious and better in every way. And I am positive there is inbuilt option to actually turn them off (that is probably the standard setting) if you want to without having to download any extensions and crap. Advertisement becomes something optional where the advertising money actually gets payed out to the viewer of the ad. Now that is the future.
90% up today and climbing up to position 18. BOOM!

Can someone explain to me what the big deal of this thing is, does this BAT fly or what' makes the BAT special?

https://vimeo.com/209336437

dump in bat but price rise ???

Video has been descriptive and enlightening . Beautiful project .

Any source to backup that arguement?

Not sure if the BAT is actually controlled by Chinese whales, but roughly 100 wallets claimed 95% during ICO:

https://etherscan.io/token/tokenholderchart/BAT?range=500

BAT will be pumped hard once the weak hands and profit takers are out. It's volume is going upwards and already is being traded at above ICO price. The way its crowdfunding was closed in few seconds under 3 blocks it is also record. BAT will rule after occupying the top most volume position at Bittrex. Polo is going to loose its effect easy by easy in my opinion.

It's easy to close quickly a crowfunding with almost all the coin presold to some whale before the public crowfunding

What was the ICO price?

Anyone know if there is a wallet for BAT yet?

Anyone know if it is possible to add it as a custom token to myetherwallet? I get the impression it could be from here? https://basicattentiontoken.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/BATCrowdsaleHowTo_myetherwallet-1.pdf

Big brains are behind this project from Brendon Eich, Brain Bondy to Yan Zhu and others. This is the real BAT team, DARK KNIGHT is coming...
Yes this is in my top list as a project which will eventually give a better value to the coin.

Personally this looks a safer bet, going forward browser would have inbuilt trusted reliable features for most of the blockchains and may be there will be a consortium formed similar to WWW. Browsers have to evolve creating these standards. Having browser plugins/add-ons is just a temporary solution. This is freedom and not enforcing something that people don't need or like to see. User focus digital advertising, seems great. May be much more to come, this just the idea in infant stage.
 
Also it doesn't matter big whale being part of ICO. Everyone are awaiting to grab big opportunities. I see individuals crying about the ICO because they were not part of it. This is decentralization as there is no control at all with anyone, and big whales will exploit this opportunity. Everyone is selfish and awaiting for this so that's expected.

Though BAT and its team looks solid in what they are planning to deliver. Hope to see BAT flying to $1 and more soon in a month or two considering the alt-coin growth. Go  B R A V E...!

YOooo,

Same as Elekltra up here, I wonder which kind of Wallet you people use to get this BAT safe and secure ??!!

I do believe in the project as much as everyone else around here, the fact that they sell so quick is unfair for most of us but it also implies that if someone is rdy to pay over 6000 Dollars of charges ( and it is not just one person who did it ), that says a lot about the future hope of the token itself.

The team is just ridiculously talented, the idea behind the coin is genius and the new BRAVE plateform, do seems like the next level browser you can use.

Wish you all the best with your future investements

Peace  ;D

This for me is one of the most promising thing in the alt coin market. The block chain is not the get rich quick scheme people want it to be. There is a very real reason that the value of this technology has skyrocketed. The block chain and bitcoin is not money it's just that money is the first implementation of the technology. What Bitcoin does is decentralize our monetary system.

BAT for me is the first real world implementation of this technology that gives the average person a platform in which to experience the blockchain. I feel like a broken record today, but people need to stop looking at this market with their greed in mind and instead realize the value lays in the freedom it promises. You can follow the fear from people speculating on who has invested or you can do yourself a favor and understand what the business model means for the end user. This is the first project that has real world use that every layman in the market can use. No longer is the Blockchain only for tech savvy, hackers, drug dealers and gamblers. This will break down walls and open the eyes of the world who for now think cryptos are nothing more than nerd money.

when will it go on Poloniex? This week? Is myetherwallet.com the best wallet to save the token from a exchanger?

I believe a paper wallet is the safest option.

Ok, how do you make a paper wallet for this coin?

Nobody knows when yet but it would be best to not wait for it to get listed on there. Just use bittrex and buy now.
It is easy to speculate that BAT will get a heavy pump once poloniex adds it. Get ahead of the crowd and buy now.

add next week ?

I talked to myetherwallet dev and BAT is now in token list in the myetherwallet.

better projects coming out soon? what projects do you mean?

I was going to make this same exact thread. I have no idea what's going to happen, but it really doesn't hurt to hold onto a few at this price point. Buy them up, and just hold for a bit. You never know

https://hackernoon.com/dear-sec-icos-tokens-are-killing-innovation-2f8d287f88c3

Ico is the Top for the Dev

BAT should increase in popularity if it really managers to attract some big advertisers and transfer that money to user.

The people behind the project are well sorted out geniuses and so is the reason their ICO sold within seconds and no one had the opportunity to enter the coin and remember they achieved this feat without much advertisement in the public bitcoin and crypto forums and so consider their investors as big whales and fund houses and so is the reason they achieved this feat.

bat scam coin???

why?

Is BAT currently overpriced with the $0.2 - $0.3 price on Bittrex and Liqui? Considering ICO price was around $0.03 (I believe)?

People on trollboxes of exchanges are speculating that once it hits Polo/Krak, it'll DROP in price as a bunch of whales will dump to recoup their initial (which at this point is around a 1000% return already... I read somewhere else that big time investors cash out at 1000%). So I suppose we need to see this as a long term investment, like... a year or longer... before the price really goes up and deserves what it's valued at, without being inflated or overhyped.

BTW @ $1/BAT which some are predicting within this month (even on this thread), times 1 billion coins, would give it a $1 billion market cap. That would put it in the top 5-8 coins market cap wise. Is that really possible this month? If it is, wouldn't that just be due to hype, and cause it settle down again maybe right around where it's at now ($0.2 - $0.3) and slowly rise over time? But they do already have a viable product (the browser), whereas most other ICOs don't, so maybe $1/BAT is justified.

Buzz Killington over here, I know. Anyway, I'm new to this so I don't know what I'm talking about. Take it all with a grain of salt.

Because  their real price under 5000 satoshi . At the beginning  its just  pump pump
bat drop from 13000 to 8000 .

The price dropped a lot . Is This taken from the price ?

This coin will be pumped if listed on Polo, b'cause whales own a lot. But I think that it may not ever be listed on Polo.

BAT is a good project, but I think its current price is way too much overvalued.

The sale of Brave's Ethereum-based Token Basic Attention (BAT) generated about $ 35 million in less than 30 seconds. One buyer even bought 20,000 ETHs (about $ 4.7 million) in tokens - designed to monetize attention and create a new revenue stream for publishers. Brave has introduced a payment solution in bitcoin, which divides a quantity of BTC assigned by the user to their favorite sites - a gesture of goodwill for the valuable content they consume in an ad-free environment. Now Brave is expanding that service with the launch of a new Ethereum-based digital advertising platform built from the ground up not to be backed not by gold, or by mining power, but by users' attention.
Notably, it may not be just the Brave that will be able to use the platform because its code will be published on Github and made available under an open source license.

Is this different to BATCOIN which has a topic running since 2014 ?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=400753.0

yes, but I can see why it's confusing with the same symbol BAT.

If you want to support this coin down load the and use the brave browser and even if you don't do it any way it's the fastest browser ever made. Firefox and chrome uninstalled. The more people using brave the more google and facebook lose on ad revenue.

Today download BraveBrowser and I have to say it's very fast and looks solid (Chrom goes to trash). And buy some BATcoins, i think it's a good investment.

2 months ago I bought 10k from 20 cents . Can't get that price again.

That price right now on Bittrex. Even lower if we speak for cents (0,20$).

Coming soon, the price will be above $ 0.2. I'm even more willing to say now that the third wave has gone and it is more than likely that the price will rise closer to $ 0.5

 ;D haha. I sold all at 0.23$ . I think BAT can make it 0.5$

I also have ~10k bat coins and hope that the next news will increase the price.

I think this coin has HUGE potential.

Google made $19 billion selling ads in 2016 alone.  BAT market cap = $180 million.

If BAT can carve even a 10% chunk out of the ad market, it will go up 10x.

And it could carve a much larger chunk than that.  Which would you prefer, advertisers spy on you and pay Google for the privilege, who then shares exactly none of it with you the user... or a browser with optional ads that pay you directly?  While going to great length to make sure you remain completely anonymous throughout the process?  It has the same or better ad-blocking tech built in, but if you decide to turn it off, you get paid!  The browser is written by the guy that invented Javascript BTW, it's top notch.

It's currently a steal after the ICO fiasco, I just stocked up and recommend everyone else does as well.  And don't quick flip this, hold it for a year and watch it explode.

Despite the decline of the market, bat are still intact.

The question is how bat can carve 10%

10 percent market cap is indeed huuuuuge

interesting coin, will look into it

What if google and others figure out how to embed ads into their sites to by pass braves system? I've seen a couple websites where ads have broken thru. Coinmarketcap.com has a break thru ad at the top boarded

There are some references of BAT being added to coinbase. Any words on that?

This coin still disappoints me. I was trusting it like hell. I planned to buy good amount like $3000 something. But it still sits around ath cause of market. I cannot see future with it anymore.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/basic-attention-token/

So...if a coin doesn't go high, it is a bad project?

Price != value

BAT is easily in my top 3 favourite coins, and although I have none now, I plan to invest in it heavily in 2018.

Investing in BAT could be worth it. I am going to think about investing in this one. The coin is not doing so well right now though.

Basic Attention Token (BAT) is actually being traded in so many crypto exchange platforms. That would even include Bittrex. I am giving my full trust to this coin. The team is not composed of individuals whose talents are not proven. The team are visionaires themselves who have proven their worth in the world of technological innovation. 2018 will be very good for the growth of BAT for sure.

Just buy BAT, hold and be patient

The team is really very strong. I think that there will be growth, but not great. Do you think this coin has a future?

Guys, says me how browser coin can be in top? It's impossible. What super excellent he offers? Advertising? Coin for watch? What new and necessary?

It's not a browser coin. It's a platform where people can earn from browser usage. It gives opportunity to have income from the browser usage. It's not only a browser coin. Please take a look at their whitepaper.

All hopes are on Brendan Eich!

The ship is about leave the station,  everyone on board,  next stop Jupiter!

hi this is my first post and this token will be my first purchase ever lol
I kinda liked everything about it, even the alledgedly chinese whales give it extra confidence( they hunt whales in asia don't they?) . Those guys know what they are doing so let's follow them lol

We must see more massive adoption of the Brave browser. This is connected with browsing habbits and habbits change slow. But eventually, they will.

What about google want implement something similar that someone mention before?

if we want it to moon real soon, lets spread the awareness, change mozilla to brave or ask mozilla to implement brave browser mode i think

The project started out as a hype because of the development team behind it and everyone trusted because of that,if you are planning to invest it is good to invest a small of money and hopefully if the projects starts full fledged we could start seeing the price of BAT moving up,it is the best time to invest in it.

Why BAT is going to the moon?

1. BAT made tipping much easier!!
2. 700% until ATH!!
3. BTC going to the moon within 3 days
4. 6h, 4H and 2h chart diverging bullish.
5. Twitterhype is all around
6. Triple bottom
7. BAT is working BRAVe desktop browser !!
8. Severely Undervalued. Bulls are coming soon. 
9. Amazing website, white paper and fundamentals.
10. More Bullish news to follow this week.

BAT/Brave announces partnership with TAP Network: lets you redeem BAT tokens at over 200k hotels, 50k restaurants/bars, and for Amazon, Uber, Nike, Starbucks, Apple gift cards

https://brave.com/brave-tap-blockchain/

https://twitter.com/tapcoin/status/1100395966618914819?s=21

"Brave Software, an innovative privacy browser combined with a blockchain based digital advertising platform, and TAP Network, the first advertising and data network that connects brands to reward consumers directly using blockchain, today announced a partnership at Mobile World Congress that will allow Brave users to redeem Basic Attention Tokens (BAT) for real-world rewards offered by over 250,000 top brand partners in the TAP Network. Brave browser users who choose to view opt-in private ads from Brave’s brand partners are rewarded with BAT via Brave Rewards."

brave is partner with bat, you can earn BAT once you follow their instruction using BRAVE browser... some of my friends did that and they are earning BAT

BAT was very popular. Then, with the effect of the bear season, the room fell into decline. It's actually a realistic project. I think such coins will come to better places in the market in the future.

I like BAT idea, web-browser, concept and so on. But I do not understand why BAT needs own token. You can tip someone in BTC or ETH, but why I should buy BAT only to tip someone?

I think that it is still too early to evaluate this project, because today almost the entire cryptocurrency market shows low graphs of all existing projects. Even very promising.

I am not talking about the price, I am talking about the real use. I think that they elementarily do not need any new token  8).

I also thought in this direction, since the team most likely had an idea to raise funds for it to the investor, thanks to the sale of tokens. Then they will develop the project, and the tokens will remain in the hands of the owners, without real value and practical use. Although any development of events can be.

At the very beginning, all the projects seem promising. But 2018 showed us that not all of them are able to survive. The perspective of the coin is better to determine in such conditions, when the market is in decline. Buy coins that cost very little need only if you are very confident in it.

I like BAT and I want it to really grow because I can also testify to it that they have very solid teams that are working on the project and making sure that the product is developed to the fullest, but on great mistakes some of these tokens usually make is to allow saturation of the coin in a single person’s hand.

You are excited now that one single person bought as high as $4.7million dollars which is not bad, you see the way the  person made this market, is the same way the person can Mar the market of BAT. Imagine this person suddenly selling off these tokens at once when you least expected while you are waiting for long term development of it. These are some of the things that kill these projects completely.

I am wondering if the large investor has not even dumped his coin after getting the small profit on it, it’s over a year now, I have also still not seen anything tangible on this projects, they keep hyping it and yet, it’s not working out, people still install more of browsers like chrome, IE and Firefox and I have not really seen anyone using BRAVE browser.

Brave developer as a co-founder of Firefox, I expect him to have pushed this project higher than this, I am just still giving them benefit of doubt because of the active team they have, and let’s see how they can make their product a real working product that will be used by millions of people.