Basic Attention Token

[Anonymous No.9415393]

BAT has been on my radar for a while. For some reason I didn't look into it until today. I downloaded the browser and I love it. I don't know why anyone interested in crypto wouldn't use it.
But my question is about the token. It's pumped pretty hard over the last few weeks. Is now a bad time to pick up some BAT? I'm curious if some news cause the recent price rise or if it's just a random that I could wait to cool off and buy in at a lower price afterwards.

[Anonymous No.9415414]

>>9415393
I've been using the Brave browser for a while without holding any tokens. Is there any incentive to hold them? It seems like I can enjoy the product without using the tokens.

[Anonymous No.9415495]

>>9415393
dow jones group is rolling out free market subscriptions worth 500$ if you download brave https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/377926

[Anonymous No.9415505]

>>9415393
>9415393
https://brave.com/dowjones-marketwatch

[Anonymous No.9415515]

It's getting listed in coinbase within the next few months with 0x, expect it to do a 30x

[Anonymous No.9415524]

>>9415515
any reason to make this claim?

[Anonymous No.9415574]

>>9415414
I was wondering this same thing for the longest time. Don't have the source on me, but what I read was:
>Brave blocks all banner/pop-up ads
>Brave launches a new ad platform, inserting directly on the browser.
>Advertisers pay in BAT
>Content makers earn BAT (currently just YouTube channels, eventually all websites)
>Users also earn BAT just for viewing ads

[Anonymous No.9415599]

>>9415505
Good looking out anon. I had no idea.

>>9415515
Source?

>>9415574
That's what I thought as well but I dont see anything on the browser about earning bat for viewing ads. Maybe that's on the roadmap for the future?

[Anonymous No.9415621]

most useless scamcoin in existence

have fun with ur fake chrome browser kek

[Anonymous No.9415699]

>>9415599
>We obviously aim to prove this, and are going to do that in ad trials with advertisers, publishers and users in Q1-Q2 2018. Data from those ad trials will be presented to show how we are able to illustrate use cases with privacy by design.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/7cr7yc/new_to_bat_read_this_introduction_to_basic/

[Anonymous No.9415706]

>>9415599
>Maybe that's on the roadmap for the future?
Yeah I think so, because I don't think the ad platform is launched either. I tried out the browser a few months ago --- it was cool, but at the time I thought BAT was purely for tipping content creators. "NOPE... this will never work"

Hearing about their advertising platform, I could really see it working... basically cuts out the middlemen like Facebook & Google which keep 100% of ad profits and pay nothing to content creators (or viewers, for that matter)

[Anonymous No.9415714]

>>9415515
Only 30x? Well shit with only 14k I’ll never get my lake house.

[Anonymous No.9415731]

>>9415599

>That's what I thought as well but I dont see anything on the browser about earning bat for viewing ads. Maybe that's on the roadmap for the future?

Interesting, Anyone have the answer?

[Anonymous No.9415740]

>>9415393
How do you get the tokens out of the browser so you can use them like ERC20 tokens?

[Anonymous No.9415758]

>>9415621
Sweet. If it holders bumping threads with fake FUD it has to be pretty good

>>9415699
Thanks anon that really clears it up

>>9415706
Alright its sounding like I need to grab a little stack

[Anonymous No.9415791]

>>9415740
there's no withdrawing them from the browser

[Anonymous No.9415805]

>>9415791
So, are they as good as burned?
Surely someone must get them.

[Anonymous No.9415807]

>>9415714
14k bat will be worth almost 170k
Use that money for one more moon mission and you've made it, fren

[Anonymous No.9415829]

>>9415791
Yes there is, just not yet. They are making sure to do KYC right, so they have no problems when the gov comes in with big dick regulation. This is only if you are a publisher, and want to take out the BAT. It can obv still be traded normally outside the browser.

>>9415805
See above.

>>9415807
Yup. Coinbase and paid ads and tor tabs coming.

>>9415740
See above.

[Anonymous No.9415848]

>>9415829
so, if they're "in the browser", you don't control your keys?

[Anonymous No.9415892]

>>9415393
>It's pumped pretty hard over the last few weeks. Is now a bad time to pick up some BAT?

Bat has a good solid ideas. It has pretty effective shills once you dig into the topic a bit. Its still just an ERC20 token at the moment.

My problem with bat is that while its still an ERC20 token it sits in the "Anyone can copy the idea with a better coin and do the same exact thing but better."

Bat still closely follows Bitcoins movement in value so if BTC takes a shit bat does too.

[Anonymous No.9415972]

>>9415848
If this is the case I might just wait until I can watch ads for BAT. Like >>9415892 said, it closely follows BTC so with it's high MC I dont think this has a ton of moon potential.

[Anonymous No.9416071]

>>9415892
>"Anyone can copy the idea with a better coin and do the same exact thing but better."


ya because there's a lot of people out there just making browsers...

[Anonymous No.9416209]

>>9416071
bro its easy to make a browser.

its not like Google has been working on chrome for years.

its not like Brendan Eich is an awesome software developer who created Firefox.

its not like its hard to make a browser thats faster than the rest, has tor tabs, has forced https, has fingerprint protection, and a clean UI.

[Anonymous No.9416463]

>>9415699
>https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/7cr7yc/new_to_bat_read_this_introduction_to_basic/
>"With credit card or debit card directly through the Brave wallet (coming soon!)"
Fuck it, this definitely means coinbase, I'm going all in. I've been debating for a while now but I'm convinced this is going to moon at the right time to actually catch on.

[Anonymous No.9416495]

>>9415972

The marketcap is not high anon, its actually very very low compared to other coins. The current digital ad lanscape is already plagued with fraud costing advertiser more than $15B a year. Ad companies like twitter and snapchat are also valued around $20-30B, ads are literally their only product. Marketcap for a mature brave browser with 100 million + users could easily be in the realms of 20-40B once you account for digital ad spend growth and fraud prevention. How does nobody understand this token?

[Anonymous No.9416536]

it just dumped from 5700 sats to 3700, dont think you're gonna get a better dip than that

btc could still tank hard though, 2014 fractal hasnt been broken yet, so who knows

[Anonymous No.9416539]

>>9416495
While I think this is possible with the next full bull run, its not going to become a top 5 coin in the next few months, unless they launch and it immediately takes off

[Anonymous No.9416593]

>>9415848

Dont store your BAT in the browser itself. Right now the BAT wallet is not multidirectional. You will be able to earn BAT through the ad trials soon, but it will be a small amount ($5-10 month) you will be able to pull the coins out eventually, but i believe they will have to go through a company that practices kyc/aml laws, this helps prevent fraud. We could also see features like paying for netflix with BAT. Store your BAT on a ledger. You can add BAT to your wallet or you can earn it and donate or use for paid services in the future or pull out for cash.

[Anonymous No.9416612]

>>9416593
If you remove the browser, are the tokens gone?

[Anonymous No.9416648]

I troll around on the BAT Project reddit and the girl who's in charge of community outreach ("Cryptojennie") is always dropping hints about what's coming next

It's pretty incredible, BAT is going to be huge. Like bigger than Chrome huge. Give it a few years

[Anonymous No.9416650]

>>9416539
If its added to coinbase in the next month or two you could see BAT ranging anywhere from $2-5. Yes thats good for the price, but the effect this would have on the browser is even greater. The UGP would be worth near $1B. That is $1B set aside strictly for marketing. From there you could see BAT grow from $5 to 20-40 over the course of a year or few. It would be a slow comfy hold, but you would be looking at massive returns.

[Anonymous No.9416688]

>>9416536
I was thinking I'd enter around 4k sats. You're probably right.

>>9416648
Well? What does she hint about?

[Anonymous No.9416719]

>>9416688

[Anonymous No.9416720]

>>9416612
Im pretty sure there is a wallet backup key. I personally dont hold BAT in my brave wallet, and i will never hold more than $50 in it as its not necessary for me. Once BAT finishes the roadmap you will really only need the wallet if you want to donate, hoard earned coins, possibly pay for premium content with hoarded coins. Depending on how the premium content works out you might deposit your own coins into the browser if you arent earning enough coins for all the services.

[Anonymous No.9416735]

>>9415807
Invest the proceeds to ZIL or Hashgraph or Sovrin (when it comes out)

[Anonymous No.9416738]

>>9416720
>Im pretty sure there is a wallet backup key.
What I'm asking is if the browser actually has your key in it, or is it bullshit and the devs still control all of those coins.
I've never gotten a straight answer on this.

[Anonymous No.9416761]

>>9416688
And this pic wasn't cryptojennie, but it was from a video posted on the BAT reddit. It's from a vid of Big Brain Brendan speaking in South Korea, where he says "Some of these companies may be trials with BAT ads"

[Anonymous No.9416762]

just buy my fucking bags already

t. held this shit for months

[Anonymous No.9416783]

>>9416738
Thats something i would need to ask in telegram, and get a response from the team. I never went that deep because i figured the keys would be private by default and the team would not have access. If they werent private i would have probably heard so by now

[Anonymous No.9416990]

>>9416612
No. I know this because i got 10 free BAT when they had that promotion for downloading the browser. Something happened to my computer and i had to uninstall the browser and when i reinstalled, all the tokens were still there.

[Anonymous No.9417086]

>>9416719
That whole comment is bullish as fuck

>>9416761
That wording is not promising at all though

[Anonymous No.9417252]

>>9417086
>That wording is not promising at all though

Yeah it sounds worse in text, it was all about the way he said it. Like as if it's a pretty huge hint that they're all involved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLBxuJ21C07Ce9F5RBa3cKeFpSgyXUXaU6&v=49fA-tyzSlE

At around 49:15 is when he starts talking about it.

[Anonymous No.9417471]

[Anonymous No.9417788]

>>9417252
Okay that phrasing actually did make it seem a lot more bullish. Thanks for the link

[Anonymous No.9418004]

>>9415414
Soon content creators and publishers will pay you for your attention and you can reward them with the tokens. Read the whitepaper. This thing is an Internet game changer.