Brave
10 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 19, 2021 by Ben Gilbert · said 28 times in 2 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Brendan Eich (18), Ben Gilbert (9), David Rosenthal (1)
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2022 27 mentions in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
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Oct 19, 2021 bullish
Gilbert: Audius, Brave, and MetaMask are crypto's top three applications by users
“Audius is crazy. It has six million users, and it's a crypto application. Like, it's, I think, that Brave and MetaMask are probably, like, the three largest like, applications by user count in all of crypto right now.”
Feb 15, 2022 bullish
Brave is developing Themis, a zero-knowledge ad verification system on Solana
“So our next generation ad system, which is aiming at Solana is called Themis. It uses a black box accumulator in the browser to build up an authentic, cryptographically secure ad performance set of numbers that can then be put into a zero knowledge proof syste…”
Feb 15, 2022 negative
Eich: Using Electron for Brave was a mistake due to sandboxing issues
“Using Electron was a mistake. It wasn't designed for a browser. It turned off the sandbox. That was horrifying to discover, and it's kind of bloated and replaced a lot of middleware files in the Chromium code that Google was Breaking through internal API shift…”
Feb 15, 2022 negative
Feb 15, 2022 positive
Eich: Brave pays users 70% of ad revenue via Basic Attention Token
“It also involves something we talked about from the beginning and we prototyped in Bitcoin, and that's the basic attention token system for users who choose to participating in Private ads that are anonymous, but that pay them 70% of the revenue and that let t…”
Feb 15, 2022 negative
Feb 15, 2022
Eich: Ten on-chain microtransactions provide enough entropy to fingerprint a user
“So for our system with users getting ad revenue share and publishers then getting creators on YouTube, getting, you know, tips or recurring donations, just 10 of those or so could fingerprint you as a user, right? If there are a few bits each, that's enough bi…”
Feb 15, 2022 negative
Eich: A Brave vendor shared user data with Experian without consent
“We have a vendor at Brave that has information on people. It shared it with Experian. We didn't know this was happening. I don't know if there's a privacy law that was breached. We believe their privacy policy was breached by their own action or their setting …”
Feb 15, 2022 negative
Eich: Virtualizing credit cards natively in browsers can deconstruct Amazon
“And if we virtualize the credit card, then we can actually put e-commerce in the browser. We can deconstruct Amazon. Every site, without having to change its merchant JavaScript, which is not going to happen easily, can have an option where you can use somethi…”