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OpenAI’s Risky Browser Bet, Amazon’s Mass Automation Plan, Clippy’s Back Oct 27, 2025 · 1 mention

▶ 22:56 Ranjan Roy Uh, Brave is, uh, it was a company that actually came out during the first crypto boom in, like, 2017, and they had a coin called basic attention token, um, that basically the whole idea is, like, you as a user would get paid in, uh,…

The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired Feb 15, 2022 · 15 mentions

▶ 6:44 Brendan Eich 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
▶ 6:55 Brendan Eich Private ads that are anonymous, but that pay them 70% of the revenue and that let them support their creators directly through the basic attention token.
▶ 7:34 Brendan Eich So it's kind of a three sided system, which is why we use the equilateral triangle for the bat basic attention token logo.
▶ 48:38 Brendan Eich I'm going to put a little money on Brave, and that's how we built up the private ad business as part of Brave Rewards uses the basic attention token.
▶ 53:49 Ben Gilbert A user views that ad, and then 70% of the revenue from that ad shows up in the user's wallet in the form of the basic attention token.
▶ 1:01:44 Brendan Eich We have the triangle for bat.
▶ 1:08:05 Ben Gilbert It seems like your strategy with embracing not just the blockchain, but becoming an economic player in the blockchain ecosystem has been, initially there was the basic attention token, and I don't think that those were actually deposited…
▶ 1:08:46 Brendan Eich Why am I identifying myself with a custodian in order to get my basic attention token?
▶ 1:10:56 Brendan Eich One of the auditors for our smart contracts for the basic attention token got paid on chain, and it was great.
▶ 1:11:41 Ben Gilbert So the initial thing you did was introduce the basic attention token, and you could accumulate that without going through any KYC, but if you were going to then send it to a creator, they would need to have a KYC wallet.
▶ 1:13:50 Brendan Eich Getting things to be useful, getting the basic attention token to be useful, including that virtual kind you earn without KYC because you're going to send it back to your creators who do have to KYC for these AML and OFAC reasons.
▶ 1:30:15 Brendan Eich So when we get to the scale of toward four hundred million or more users, we will have opportunities to do things, including with the basic attention token that you couldn't have done out of the box earlier, and that would look like…
▶ 1:32:59 Brendan Eich He said, we're thinking about adding bat.
▶ 1:33:03 Brendan Eich Why do you need bat?
▶ 1:42:11 Brendan Eich Uh, we have Attention Token.

How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205 Jul 31, 2021 · 1 mention

▶ 51:06 Shaan Puri The Brave Browser has BAT, which is the basic attention token.

781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World Sep 13, 2017 · 2 mentions