/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>22237968
im gonna buy some . thanks for reminding me. easy 2x right now

smart motherfucker right here

>>22237968
Token not needed, every user would prefer to be paid in one of the more mainstream tokens.

>>22237968
useless money grab token for retards

Where the fuck is my payment

>>22238411
DID YOU CHECK YOUR ASSHOLE? MAYBE YOUR PAYMENT IS THERE?

This is unironically straight from reddit hence the spacing.
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Low hanging items we have been working on are likely obvious: Rewards features, publisher and ads payments, getting sync v2 shipped, crypto wallet enhancement, webcompat, etc.

To address the list:

BAT-sense / publisher ads

Interest was decent from verified publishers when we exposed the ability for publishers to opt-in from the publisher dashboard.

We have an MVP, but want to optimize personalization before we put in the wild. Some of this work was also temporarily paused for stability work.

There are some additional optimizations to the existing User ad units we have work in progress for that has been prioritized higher in queue, as they net better rewards for users and added value for advertisers.

Self-service ad manager

Steady progress on this front. Current advertisers can observe this as recently as last week when we rolled out improvements to the reporting dashboards.

We have onboarded an additional set of partners and advertisers to help us test out self-serve.

This will be the pattern for the near-term.

Why didn't I sell at 40c. I thought this time would be different fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

>>22238559
Here's why:

Self-serve brings expectations of 24/7 availability and support. We are ramping resources to handle this, but it will be iterative.

Being 100% real, our ad delivery is different than traditional ad platforms. The delivery cadence and volume is different (users see a max of 1-5 ads/hr in Brave; outside of Brave, they see 3-5 ads per page load). The matching algorithms are different. The pacing is different. Conversion funnel adheres to physics, but the timing is different when you aren't carelessly shotgunning a ton of ads in front of a person.

Audience cohorts are different, and our audiences are growing each month to be more mainstream.

My point with all this is that there has been a lot of daily collaboration between ad operations (through our managed services team), engineering and with our testers to fine tune defaults for each campaign goal and gauge performance across different categories.

We don't want to rush a release to self-serve for advertisers to begin using, and have them in a situation where they operate based on traditional experience, that may end up setting them up for poorer performance than they would have through managed services. Getting the defaults tuned for different campaign goals takes some time, but ultimately sets our self-serve advertisers up for better success.

We are selling in to more broader advertisers, and are factoring in differences from category performance as we go.

BraveVPN

VPN news soon. Stay tuned. Can't say more just yet.

Apollo release

See: https://brave.com/themis/ and https://brave.com/mjolnir-tooling-for-bat-apollo/

Making progress, but aren't dropping dates yet.

did anyone else earn fucking nothing in the last month? usually i get at least 15 bat but i only made 3 (three) the entire month from their cancer ads

>>22238587
Brave Together:

Working on scaling for a Brave Together release across our channels beyond Nightly (I am working on this with the team now).

You can use Brave Together now, for free, in any Brave Channel at https://together.brave.com - please provide feedback when you can.

Doesn't take too much of a stretch to see how we could work BAT into Brave Together in some novel ways.

BAT SKU work

In progress. Some of this effort was on pause during stability work, but has recently resumed.

Again, want to emphasize the importance of stabilizing what we have in market so we can market the product and introduce additional features with the greatest chance of success. We could release a lot of things on shaky ground and end up doing more harm than good.

We are working around the clock, and sometimes updates on progress fall by the wayside. We can do better, and will work on being more up front on progress.

Will pass along the feedback re: roadmap.

Also encourage people to check our github for release train features and focus:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/roadmap

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Brave-Release-Schedule

Hope this helps.

>has zoom competitor
>doesnt tell people
>google about to be taken to court by AG Barr and likely broken up
>doesnt advertise itself as an alternative to google chrome
>global ad structure and revenue breaks down due to GDPR
>doesnt say a fucking word
>lead engineer meets TJ Miller
>TJ straight up forgets about it in a tweet about Brave years later
only masochists invest in BAT

>>22238600
Another scoop from today for people wondering what else the BAT token can extend to.

"While the Brave browser represents the first "BAT-enabled application" and is the primary focus of BAT Roadmap 1.0, the team intends to extend the BAT ecosystem beyond the Brave browser. We envision the BAT platform being extended to other web browsers, chat/messaging applications, games and other attention-economy apps via open source mobile app SDKs, connected TV SDKs, etc. (Read more about our upcoming BAT SDK, here.) For more info on the potential areas of expansion, see our Driving User Adoption and Extending the BAT Platform blog post.

The BAT SDK that will allow developers to integrate BAT-functionality (such as privately-matched ads with revenue share) into their own applications, allowing developers to monetize their apps and reward their userbase."

"I don’t want to corner the browser market; I think Brave will have a good growth curve and lots of market share among elite users who are very economically valuable, but BAT is the big play. I want the Basic Attention Token to be used widely, which means we will bring it to other browsers and other attention apps — things like podcast players, or games that have ads in them.” —Brendan Eich

>>22238602
just hold this stablecoin forever bro

>>22238616
Individual creators can edit what values they display in their tipping banner by simply customizing their tipping banner through their dashboard. They can set it to: (1, 10, 100), (5, 10, 20), or (10, 20, 50), etc., for example.

In the future, we may introduce more flexible options for users, such as non-anonymous tips of custom amounts you set yourself. :)

Picked up some more BAT. What a treat

>>22238987

Fag in this picture. I know you're itt here. l2read

>hurrrr plenty of examples durrr

>>22237968
Even /g/ doesn't like brave / bat

>it's an ad-driven browser that panders to advertising agencies with a blockchain-redistribution scheme while pretending to be ethical by hardcoding deprecated web extensions into it's core (https everywhere & adblock plus)

>and contains a ledger system that measures user attention aggregate to accurately reward publishers.
https://basicattentiontoken.org/about/

>The Brave browser knows where users spend their time, making it the perfect tool to calculate and reward publishers with BATs.
https://basicattentiontoken.org/

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/brave.html
https://hub.packtpub.com/brave-privacy-browser-has-a-backdoor-to-remotely-inject-headers-in-http-requests-hackernews/
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/facebook-twitter-trackers-whitelisted-by-brave-browser/
>>/g/thread/S69748437

>the data is stored in-browser
https://twitter.com/tomscott/status/1085238644926005248
https://bitcoinist.com/brave-browser-donations-not-optional/
https://mobile.twitter.com/tomscott/status/1076160882873380870
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734999
https://np.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/ap9149/brave_privacy_browser_has_a_backdoor_to_remotely/eg6vckb/

>uses open source, fucks over anyone who forks from them...
https://decrypt.co/35146/brave-forces-rival-browser-braver-change-name

>The browser sees everything you do, including actions to stop that annoying phenomenon of retargeting where an ad chases you around the Web, often for something you just bought or decided not to buy. We keep user data out of our cloud Brave Vault by default.
https://brave.com/blogpost_1.html

>Brave has been redirecting searches to crypto companies to affiliate links that give it a commission.
https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect

Research and educate yourself on BAT & Brave browser before using their product!

>By August 2016, the company had received at least US$7 million in angel investments from venture capital firms, including Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Propel Venture Partners, Pantera Capital, Foundation Capital, and the Digital Currency Group.
Here’s an archived version of Brave’s Wikipedia article in case that information disappears somehow See the section #Business model
https://web.archive.org/web/20200227000950/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)

Peter Thiel is the chairman of Palantir Technologies. Wikipedia describes Palantir Technologies like this:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200128121847/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
>Palantir Technologies is a private American software company that specializes in big data analytics. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, it was founded by Peter Thiel, Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Alex Karp.

Further along the Wikipedia article, some interesting stuff starts coming up
>The company is known for three projects in particular: Palantir Gotham, Palantir Metropolis and Palantir Foundry. Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at offices in the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and United States Department of Defense, fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, and cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor, while Palantir Metropolis is used by hedge funds, banks, and financial services firms.
Which is really concerning. This is also in line with how Brave whitelists Facebook and Twitter tracking scripts while advertising itself as a privacy conscious browser. Behavior of this is like a honeypot.

>>22237968
Daily reminder, central bank coins and/or those indirectly controlled by central authorities are not in line with principles and ideology which cyptos originally set forth in terms of freeing people from the chains of centralization, authority and over-reaching control.

Sad that we have to remind ourselves of what brought crypto to popularity in the first place - the Cypherpunk manifesto.
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/

Don't give in to these forces that seek to & have controlled us for centuries, before we lose sight of what we, as a human race, stand for.


Some of these coins/teams include:

>BSV
>Blockstream
>Algorand
>Ripple
>BAT

This thing actually is doomed to return to 25 cents forever LMAO

I haven't gotten an ad in 2 weeks, why?

You have to be retarded to hold BAT.
It's as stupid as holding XRP.
>b-but companies will buy our bags!
LOL, sure pajeets.

>>22238478
I checked, but all I found was your mother's tongue.

ill start the saturday thread a little later than normal (late afternoon)

>>22239355
yeah, until it's not

>>22238589
imagine subjecting yourself to something you hate for pennies? lmao your life must be shit anon. You don't like the ads? turn them off. you should know how, you had to turn them on in the first place.

>>22237968
>real world use case
BAT proves that real world use cases are just a meme in the crypto clown world.

>>22241706
brave provides the real use case. It would really help content creators. BAT was a scam that got me and now I'm stuck again in this god forsaken 15-30c range for another year