'Brave' browser starts paying bitcoins

[NorrisK]

I see people opening a lot of faucets and sites like that with lot of adds just to boost their add views.

I don't think it will be a good method to earn bitcoin. There will literaly be thousands of page crawlers just going through the pages to get the qualifying views. You cannot compete with that as a human being. You will probably end up with a lower payday than clicking faucets, which are already in the range of cents per day if you go at it for hours.

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[Herbert2020]

Anyone using Brave and can verify this? Have they indeed started paying users, or publishers only? I only use android version, which doesn't yet support btc payments.

brave browser has not yet reached the final stages, it is still in the process of adding the features. and the payment feature was recently added to it.

the first stage is only "users paying the sites they love to support".

the focus of this project is not on money making but mostly on security and giving the users the most power to control what content they see and what they block to increase the security about malware infection through malwaretising some sides unknowingly/desperately do to make money.

[Betwrong]

An integrated Bitcoin payment system will handle payments, putting bitcoins into your wallet if you’ve agreed to see ads and taking them out if you’ve opted to have them blocked.

But it's still unclear how much are they going to pay if you’ve agreed to see ads. I don't know but something tells me it might be 5 sats per add or even less. We'll see of course what will be in reality (right now it is not working still AFAIK) but to me it looks like a brave publicity. )

[zPanda]

An interesting approach, but instead of making it a Browser, an add-on would just be more accessible.

[c4s7or]

I dont think there are much people willing to use a new and probably worse browser which shows them adversting just to earn a few sats.

[Vodka555]

This is interesting. The 15℅ for the users will be small that's for sure though

[TastyChillySauce00]

This is interesting. The 15℅ for the users will be small that's for sure though

but still worth it if browsing is also part of your everyday life and instead of browsing everywhere and don't get any earning then it's for sure an interesting thing that could give us additional earning even though it's quite small,and also the best way to support those content provider such as webs owner or someone else

[Pursuer]

An integrated Bitcoin payment system will handle payments, putting bitcoins into your wallet if you’ve agreed to see ads and taking them out if you’ve opted to have them blocked.

But it's still unclear how much are they going to pay if you’ve agreed to see ads. I don't know but something tells me it might be 5 sats per add or even less. We'll see of course what will be in reality (right now it is not working still AFAIK) but to me it looks like a brave publicity. )

it is not unclear, it is not yet released. the feature to pay the users is not yet ready.
for now the payment is only to the sites, meaning the users who like to support the site click on the option to give a share to that site. the interface looks like this:

(Edit for signature spammer below me with 3x my posts count)
users can NOT earn money with this browser (not yet anyways). users will optionally PAY the sites they visit as a donation.



I recommend reading the official FAQ : https://www.brave.com/Payments_FAQ.html
and the official blog : https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/

[arseaboy]

An integrated Bitcoin payment system will handle payments, putting bitcoins into your wallet if you’ve agreed to see ads and taking them out if you’ve opted to have them blocked.

But it's still unclear how much are they going to pay if you’ve agreed to see ads. I don't know but something tells me it might be 5 sats per add or even less. We'll see of course what will be in reality (right now it is not working still AFAIK) but to me it looks like a brave publicity. )

it is not unclear, it is not yet released. the feature to pay the users is not yet ready.
for now the payment is only to the sites, meaning the users who like to support the site click on the option to give a share to that site. the interface looks like this:



I recommend reading the official FAQ : https://www.brave.com/Payments_FAQ.html
and the official blog : https://blog.brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/

Thanks for this info mate its really got my interest when i seen this type of ways to earn i know it will make some huge support coming from the community here if implemented correctly. Good luck OP

[onlinedragon]

Sounds like an interesting project and just downloaded the Brave app for IOS. Wonder if they manage to survive between all the big names in the browser market. Hope they will release this function fast now I still see a message on there website.

Browse faster and safer with Brave.
The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser.
Soon, micropayments and better ads will give users and publishers a better deal.
Get Brave
For iOS 8 or later.
Download Brave for another platform

[xuan87]

It is an interesting idea to implemented bitcoin into paid browser, I do hope this project can continue and expand, the more bitcoin user the more stable price we got, hopefully it dont slowing the internet connection that we have and contents of the ads is informative

[coinoclock]

It is an interesting idea to implemented bitcoin into paid browser, I do hope this project can continue and expand, the more bitcoin user the more stable price we got, hopefully it dont slowing the internet connection that we have and contents of the ads is informative

It's cool i give you that but i don't see more users than some geeks trying it out. people tend to be lazy and not care, so i don't see why they should bother.

[0209BitTradoo]

It is an interesting idea to implemented bitcoin into paid browser, I do hope this project can continue and expand, the more bitcoin user the more stable price we got, hopefully it dont slowing the internet connection that we have and contents of the ads is informative

It's cool i give you that but i don't see more users than some geeks trying it out. people tend to be lazy and not care, so i don't see why they should bother.

Interesting idea pay with BTC to remove ads.

[Hazir]

Interesting idea pay with BTC to remove ads.

But why people would pay for removing ads when they will basically achieve the same goal while using other browser with ADBlock addon?
This ways they won't have to pay anything. If Brave works like this then I see no incentivize to use it just because they are different.

[coinoclock]

Interesting idea pay with BTC to remove ads.

But why people would pay for removing ads when they will basically achieve the same goal while using other browser with ADBlock addon?
This ways they won't have to pay anything. If Brave works like this then I see no incentivize to use it just because they are different.

as far as i understood you pay the sites you like to support them. because instead of money from the ads they get it from you directly.
but like i said and i think you agree people are lazy and besides some geeks nobody will use it.

[bazar165g]

I don't think that they are paying users right now because when i visited their website there it was written "Soon, micropayments and better ads will give users and publishers a better deal."

[talkbitcoin]

Interesting idea pay with BTC to remove ads.

But why people would pay for removing ads when they will basically achieve the same goal while using other browser with ADBlock addon?
This ways they won't have to pay anything. If Brave works like this then I see no incentivize to use it just because they are different.

if you read the previous comments and if you also pay a visit to the developer's site you can see that this is only optional to pay the sites for supporting them not for removal of ads. the removal is another story.

the adblock is actually present in this browser and it is supposed to be so much stronger than any other ad-ons currently available for Firefox and Chrome.

[ashiqdey]

Well so we could start using brave browser to earn bitcoin for free right?.
I think they will run ad based content which will help them to earn money and from there they will pay us something like 10 to 70%
Not bad for earning i can do anything that's possible and it's an easy tasks so big node to this technology.

[pawel7777]

It is an interesting idea to implemented bitcoin into paid browser, I do hope this project can continue and expand, the more bitcoin user the more stable price we got, hopefully it dont slowing the internet connection that we have and contents of the ads is informative

It's cool i give you that but i don't see more users than some geeks trying it out. people tend to be lazy and not care, so i don't see why they should bother.

That's why they should implement those 15% payments to users as soon as possible. Earning BTC for browsing, even if it's only few satoshis per day etc., could be pretty strong incentive to switch to Brave. Currently only available option to enable users to pay for browsing is not appealing at all to average user.


@xuan87 - the general idea is to improve page loading time, so it won't slow down internet connection.

[ebliever]

I dont think there are much people willing to use a new and probably worse browser which shows them adversting just to earn a few sats.

You've got that exactly backwards.

I haven't d/l it yet, but I have it on my to-do list. For me the golden age of the internet was 1996-97, when information was available without being deluged in a swamp of advertising/video that slows your machine and crashes your browser. I tend to actively avoid many news websites because they are such an unstable mess. So while I hated the idea of paying to view a page, the sheer obnoxiousness of the current state of affairs has brought me around to Brave's model of micro-payments to see ad-free information. I think in the long run it will carve out a significant niche at a minimum.