Dat VS Basic Attention Token (BAT)

Yes there are some really interesting projects, also in the ML replicability space. One really nice approach is the DAT project [1]. The protocol [2] looks pretty sensible and useful. Unfortunately, the tooling has been in such a state of permanent flux (i.e. Perpetual deprecation) that I've never bothered to invest much time. [1] https://datproject.org/ [1] https://datproject.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Agreed. Brave actually implemented this exact thing[1], and then got dumped together with other crypto scam projects, which continues to happen in this very thread. Crypto haters are quick to shout that cryptocurrencies have no practical use, and introduce many problems, but this is a perfect use case for them. The negative discussion has detracted from some truly disrupting technologies being adopted, which is a... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

Minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions" And more recently Brave, the browser tried to implement it. "Crypto and DeFi are hard to use and the $330 billion digital advertising industry is failing users, publishers and advertisers. With Basic Attention Token and Brave we want to take Crypto to the next 1B users and solve the endemic inefficiencies and privacy... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Not just ads that make it past the filters, but ones that Brave the company sends to you. See and https://basicattentiontoken.org/. Source: 11 months ago

Brave's Basic Attention Tokens, or BAT, are bridged across Ethereum and Solana per BAT's website; Ethereum previously used a proof-of-work model which had an awful environmental impact, but has since moved to a more efficient proof-of-stake model in September 2022, which the Ethereum Foundation claimed at the time would reduce energy use by 99.95%, though I can't find anything on the actual results. Solana as far... Source: over 1 year ago

As far as I know, it’s alright. Firefox (and some forks of it) are considered better with the right tweaks. Un-googled chromium and Brave are generally considered your best bets for a chromium-based browser (some sites unfortunately rely on chromium, though your mileage may vary). I think Brave is considered to be a bit more secure than un-googled chromium (don’t quote me on that)— but the trade off is that... Source: over 1 year ago