There are many risks, many weak points when considering making a paper wallet.

My suggestion is taht you make one only for educational purposes. Buy a hardware wallet, trezor or ledger. Those are the safer, they are cheap (about $ 80) and you probably never lose your money.

But if you stop rewarding users, their business model (which is genial) is gone.
We are paying to watch ads. We pay with our bandwidth, our privacy data, our time. And there are so many ads out there, which are even running internet experience, but most people doesn't even notice them anymore. Dozens of them in each website.

There is aproblem here. Additionally, there is a huge oligopoly by Google and facebook.

However, BAT business model proposes the opposite: They pay us to watch ads. They are offering us a reason to not watch those ads. So, theoretically, we would be, by using brave: - breaking an oligopoly, maximazing our internet experience, protecting our privacy, reducing bandwidth costs and making free money. That's genial, and it is one of the few projects out there which is really something, imo.

But they are going the wrong way, imo. They are not properly executing the idea.

This idea paying users to watch ads in amazing. But no kyc ffs  lol

The problem of places with no internet connection is related to broadcasting the transaction to the nodes. After the broadcast, the transaction would be in the mempool and it would be a normal transaction

There are some ideas about broadcasting bitcoin transactions via radio

https://blockonomi.com/bitcoin-transactions-radio/

I can send BAT to you if I buy that BAT.

The bat I "receive" from browsing is locked until I do KYC. I cannot withdrawal it, cannot trade it for btc or whatever.

I cannot donate that BAT to you, but to your website.

This is slightly different.

I think BAT project and the whole concept is amazing and disruptive, but poorly executed.

You can confirm that on the pop up that opens in your browser (and the image up there in the OP)

The ads are privacy respecting, but not the browser or the token... the browser will have my ID!

Brave Browser slogan is: You are not a product. It is a browser with an built-in adblock that was supposed to pay you for watching ads.

Their idea is amazing. Pay for users to watch ads. This has a great potential, and certainly can impact the whole Google/facebook business model (based on their ads).

The problem is: they are demanding KYC. You are the product, after all.

First they said that only publishers would be affected by KYC, and users who just navigate wouldn't be force to do any KYC.
This is highly questionable, however we can understand: publishers are company making money, so they could do KYC to comply with their law obligations and this could even, somehow, protect customers. I didn't like, but I can understand.

Then, few days ago Brave decided to start paying for users to browse the web using their browser. I used it for 5 days and received 0.1 BAT (0,03 USD). The amount of money is ridiculous, but well, it is free.. So i tried to withdrawal it. Look at the image I faced:

So now brave is requiring KYC for everyone. If you don't do KYC, no coins for you.

Even the money I sent to my wallet is now locked until complying with KYC? this is crazy.

Weren't they supposed to protect our privacy? Wasn't I going to receive coins for watching ads, while protecting my privacy??
How can sending documents will my privacy be protect? So the documents are the product, not me?

I was disappointed with BAT/Brave, because it  was a project with so much potential.

I hope someone else, maybe firefox, could just implement their business model paying users with BTC without kyc.

Transaction fees in this wallet are recalculated every 10 minutes (or something like that) according to network congestion, to make sure your trnasaction is confirmed in the next block or blocks (according to the priority you chose)

If the network is congested you will pay higher fees.

So, in the last 3 years, it changed about one hundred times a day.

Arguments against block size increase are based on decentralization[1] and alternatives such as Segwit, which will reduce transaction size instead of block size (which will be able to achieve the same result without increasing centralization)

[1] as satoshi said


If you don't care about decentralization, as you think it does not justify a reduced block size, you have two alternatives:
Use BCH  or Visa. I think Vista is much better lol

Visa can do 24.000 tps, while BCH is centralized and do only 60.

I agree, but that's certainly don't the case here. I basically wrote down the page that and the URL. Google would find it in any computer (I have tested as I use many different computers (that I never used before , without logging in on Google account). And the search results are almost the same.


The free version is nice but it is very limited. Cannot complete with Gmail. For example, Gmail has unlimited Google storage for photos, Google drive, 8gb of mail etc... While proton mail is something like 500mb, not even a calendar (postponed forever, maybe going to be released Soo )

I know this is an old topic, however I was recommended to read topic, so I answer this question

There are many institutional investors which cannot buy bitcoin directly, due to regulations and law.

For example, pension funds cannot buy bitcoin, the law clearly state what they can or cannot buy, after all they are investing someone else's money. There are other institutional investors in the same situation.
They can not buy a bitcoin, but they can buy a future, or an ETF.

I can read only in portuguese and English... how can I evaluate topics in languages I do not understand?
If your local is in english or portuguese, you can.

Edit: Due to the low quality of suggested topics (with few exceptions) , I am locking this one.

I agree, that's something we really need to do.
However, the alternatives are very bad.

I was trying to using DuckDuckGo... I just kind find anything there. Have you ever tried to find bitcointalk topics there?

I was trying to find my merit source application. I wrote in DDG "Bitmover bitcointalk.org merit source application"

look at the results:


The result is completely ridiculous, as it has nothing to do with the searched terms.

On the other hand, Google results were amazing. I was able to find all the relevant discussions related to my application, even in other boards. I was able to find people mentioning my application elsewhere.


Until DDG or any other search engine has the minimum usability , there is no competition to many google products.

There is a lot of competition on Chrome, which is not the best browser. But android is by far the best OS for mobile (cheaper, more customizable, etc) and google is the best search engine... Sadly, Gmail is still the best mail service as well...

I believe proton mail is better than gmail, however it is paid (and not cheap). Hard to compete..

Norton security makes my computer so slow...
I use malware bytes+windows defender only.

About cc cleaner, there are many discussions about it on the internet. It is basically a controversy software
Many people claim it does more harm than good.

Where did you get this information from? Myetherwallet is not official by any means. They just recommend it, among many others in the official website:
https://ethereum.org/use/#3-what-is-a-wallet-and-which-one-should-i-use

On the other hand, Bitcoin Core software, although not official, is much more supported by core developers and was created by satoshi. Not official either.


That wallet is not safe. The only safe wallets around are the hardware wallets.

Electrum and Bitcoin Core are safe either, if the user knows how to properly airgap his computer.

Also, you have to think about what kind of security you need. For example, you carry a few cash in your physical wallet right? Is it safe? No, but it is worth taking the risk of carrying it for the convenience of having a few bucks at hand. But would you keep all your life savings in your pocket? Ofc not.

The same thought applies to bitcoin. Web and mobile wallets are convenient. You should have a few bucks on those kind of wallets for convenience. But keep your life savings in the most secure wallet possible. like you do with your money.

Bitcoin is money. Deal with it like real money and you will be fine.

When I see false or distorted arguments in an advertising I just ignore the product. This is no exception:


Those ~4million bitcoins were lost when they were worthless, most of them when deterministic wallets (and  seed mnemonic ) didn't even exist.

People are not losing their seeds all the time, neither losing bitcoins all the time anymore.

They are using a false premise to promote a somewhat online wallet faked as a hardware wallet.

Thanks for sharing this.

I was reading, that's so absurd. Google has a big conflict of interest in the subject, what they are writing is unethical and immoral. Look at this:


They are basically saying that if you don't give them your data freely (by using their products) we will all have to pay for third party software, which are free now. Actually, those free software are buying google ads. If google ads becomes irrelevant, Google will lose their income, not us.

it is even possible that those publishers move to more democratic business models, like BAT/Brave or even something else.

Breaking google's ads monopoly is a gain for everyone but them.

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Hey Jet Cash
I made a topic about this, very interesting discussions about interest rates around the world, many interesting comments and discussions.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5183972.msg52433127#msg52433127

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I think it is healthy to allow many users to become DT1 and DT2. The more people, the better imo.
However, they/we should have less power. Maybe 3 or 2 feedbacks instead of one would be nice to be able to tag an account (green or red tag).