Welcome to this week's BAT Community Update! Big thanks to u/MurphD for his contributions!
Upcoming AMA with Brian Brown, Brave’s Chief Business Officer
Brian Brown is Brave’s Chief Business Officer. As CBO, he leads the Business Development team in growing the BAT platform by building partnerships with companies that may benefit from BAT & Brave.
You can leave your questions for Brian in the Reddit thread linked. Questions will be collected, vetted and posted by your host, u/CryptoJennie, while the event is live (with credit to the OP). Questions that come in on the day of as comments in the live AMA thread will be of second priority.
See you there!
https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9vnlcq/upcoming_ama_with_brian_brown_braves_chief/
Brave calls for a “United States GDPR” in letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Brave's letter makes the case for federal privacy law that builds on the GDPR, to protect innovation, interoperability, and support US leadership.
This letter is Brave’s response to an invitation to comment from the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (which is part of the US Department of Commerce. It argues that the United States should adopt a GDPR-like standard and establish world-leading enforcement expertise. It presents several lines of reasoning, which you can read in the letter here:
ttps://brave.com/ntia-federal-privacy-law/
Brendan Eich on What Bitcoin Did podcast: "Fixing Online Advertising with Brendan Eich”
In this interview, Peter McCormack talks with CEO and President of Brave, Brendan Eich about his rich history in tech, why he built the Brave browser and some of the controversies around the token. https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/braves-brendan-eich-on-fixing-online-advertising
VIDEO: Great presentation by David Temkin, Brave's Chief Product Officer at SOCAP18
David Temkin @davidtemkin I recently gave a presentation at the @SOCAPmarkets conference in San Francisco on the topic "Challenging Surveillance Capitalism". It summarizes what we're up to here at @brave: 1:09 PM - 7 Nov 2018
https://twitter.com/davidtemkin/status/1060278042445066240
VIDEO: Brave Attends Cal Hacks 5.0 at UC Berkeley!
On November 2-5 2018, members from the BAT/Brave team attended Cal Hacks 5.0, the world's largest collegiate hackathon, at UC Berkeley, for which Brave was an official sponsor! Several teams of hackers competed to build the best Brave browser extension in order to win one of Brave’s awesome prizes, like a MacBook, iPad, or Nintendo Switch (Fortnite Edition).
All in all, It was a fantastic weekend where members from the BAT/Brave team got to interact with hundreds of students one on one and teach them about the project!
https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9uposy/video_brave_bat_at_cal_hacks_50_from_november_24/
See our Cal Hacks photo album, here: https://imgur.com/a/J8hQDOS
BAT Community Merch Giveaway Winners!
The winners for our BAT Community Daily Merch Giveaways for this week are:
- Monday (Reddit): u/AuGKlasD
- Tuesday (Twitter): @groovingraphs
- Wednesday (Facebook): Mark O'Sullivan
- Thursday (Contributor special): u/mentalhealth57
- Friday (Instagram): stackmetals
Click here to see pics of previous giveaway winners rocking their BAT/Brave merch!: https://imgur.com/a/lhF1G9I
Be sure to tune in to our social media channels every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday to participate in our daily merch giveaways for your chance to win!
Client Updates:
Brave releases Beta Channel v0.57.6:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.57.6
Brave releases Release Channel v0.56.12:
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v0.56.12
Brave Team Tweets:
Update on monthly active users happening soon?
BrendanEich @BrendanEich Still working on it, had some Android accounting issues. Should be ~5M, more next week. 11:12 PM - Nov 3, 2018
Sampson is very happy where he is now. :)
Sampson | brave.com @BraveSampson I am so thankful to have a role in what @Brave is accomplishing. This week I spoke on a blockchain, security, and privacy panel. I followed that up with a Reddit AMA. Then I spent 3 days at UC Berkeley, encouraging students to build a safer, more secure web. Could not be happier! 2:26 AM - Nov 5, 2018
Future goals for Brave!
BrendanEich @BrendanEich Goal for 2019 is to get on-platform volume up as percentage of all volume, see how many users we can bring on board, get ad deals paying. If that comes together then BAT SDK and more apps. 6:18 PM - Nov 5, 2018
Johnny Ryan tweets about his letter to the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration and outlines in a seven part tweet what should be done and how.
Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan I just wrote to @NTIAgov the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration @CommerceGov to share @Brave's view that there should be a #GDPR for the United States to protect innovation and interoperability - and to protect #privacy. Nov 6
Sampson trying to see how “Brave” Elon Musk is...
Sampson | brave.com @BraveSampson @elonmusk If you're in the market for a new browser for your cars, I'd encourage you to check out what we're building at @brave. We cut out ads and trackers (accounting for more than 50% of mobile data), making us up to 8x faster than others 📷 7:13 PM - Nov 7, 2018
Hmmm… Possible use case for BAT?
Sampson | brave.com @BraveSampson What if your ride-sharing app offered you a few private commercials or ads to subsidize your trip? Ride comes out to $7, but you watched 3 ads en route. You can apply the $BAT to your ride, tip your driver, add it to a friend's account, or let it accumulate later use. 📷 7:29 PM - Nov 7, 2018
Brian R. Bondy @brianbondy Had a great time last night sharing my @brave story at #YQGTALKS in Windsor. Photo credit @snapdWindsor 8:43 PM - Nov 7, 2018
Sampson gives some tipping tips, plus sys Youtube tipping is coming soon.
Dave Craige📷 @davecraige @BraveSampson quick question, is there any way I could give away $5 in $BAT today to a YouTuber?
@BrendanEich said I should ask you.
Sampson | brave.com @BraveSampson You could pin a contribution to their channel, but it won't be $5 exactly. Alternatively, if they have a blog or website you can leverage the new Tipping feature to give a one-off contribution of 1, 5, or 10 BAT. We'll support one-off Tipping for YouTubers soon. 9:22 PM - Nov 7, 2018
Great question on Reddit: When I send a tip, how does that website, YT Channel, ect ect get the money and do they get the full 100% of the tip?
See the answer here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9umpj3/when_i_send_a_tip_how_does_that_website_yt/
User to user referrals coming?
Brendan Eich @BrendanEich User to user referrals are on plan, and then you will have a dashboard that gives you both creators you support and your referral code and stats. 1:02 AM - Nov 8, 2018
Brave = Can’t be evil.
Lance Leonard @FluentTypo Replying to @BraveSampson But can you tell me that ads, today, aren't tracked? Even BATs?
I'm very dubious about that...and, even though we've thrown Flash/Silverlight to the winds, you know where my advocacy comes from.
DNT.
Let users choose whether they're part of the game...or _not_.
Sampson | brave.com @BraveSampson Oh, today's ads are most certainly tracking you. They're auctioning you off to the highest bidder in most cases.
Brave Ads won't, and can't. It's a design principle—"Can't be Evil." 4:33 AM - Nov 8, 2018
News You Should Know:
Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line
Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. Chrome routinely leads the pack in features for security and usability, most recently helping to drive the adoption of HTTPS. But when it comes to privacy, specifically protecting users from tracking, most of its rivals leave it in the dust.
In the documents that define how the Web works, a browser is called a user agent. It’s supposed to be the thing that acts on your behalf in cyberspace. If the massive data collection appetite of Google’s advertising- and tracking-based business model are incentivizing Chrome to act in Google’s best interest instead of yours, that’s a big problem—one that consumers and regulators should not ignore.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/11/google-chromes-users-take-back-seat-its-bottom-line
KYC is our friend, a four-part twitter thread from Ami Ben-David:
https://twitter.com/amibendavid/status/1059135135273181184
Privacy Group Asks European Regulators To Test GDPR Against Seven Tech Companies (Featuring Brave’s Johnny Ryan!)
Privacy advocates in the UK filed a series of complaints Thursday against Criteo, Tapad, Quantcast, Acxiom, Oracle, Equifax and Experian, questioning whether consumer profiling is legal under GDPR.
Watchdog group Privacy International is claiming that the way many ad tech and data companies use data is in direct contravention to Europe’s new privacy law. The group is urging regulators in the UK, Ireland and France to use those seven companies as test cases for whether GDPR really has teeth in practice.
Roaring Fans:
Smart usage of Brave!
Dean Jones 😳 👌 @whodeani Replying to @BraveSampson @keranm and 3 others It works. I use Brave for watching Youtube... even via my Apple TV using Airplay (as using the Youtube app on Apple TV is riddled with advertising). 11:19 PM - 5 Nov 2018
Check out this thread about why Jan Weisensee switched from Firefox to the Brave browser in this thread.
https://twitter.com/ilumium/status/1059482154730733569
Reddit user /u/amoebatron makes the switch to Brave!
Brave users pushing out tips!
Dave Craige📷@davecraige @crypto_bobby just gave you $3.30 USD with @brave! Thanks for all your great content. Lemme know if you get it. 7h
CryptoKid @bitcoinkarate There is a lot of hate against $BAT and @brave that I have seen recently.
This team has one of the FEW working products in our space. They continue to strive and push their vision update after update. 1:32 AM - 8 Nov 2018
Edouard Civel @Edouard_Civel #BetterLateThanNever I switched today my browser and my web search engine to @brave & @Qwant_FR :faster web, safer privacy and fewer ads. Go for it folks ! 2h2 hours ago
Disclaimer: Brave cannot prove this is a real alien, but it’s possible.
ΛᄂIΣП @AlienThatTweets If you haven't already I reccomend that you download and use @brave such a great software. 📷 8h8 hours ago
Rob Carroll @thevideoanalyst Have been using the @brave browser for about a week now. These stats are something. 14h14 hours ago
Crypto Coup @CryptoCoup Replying to @BitcoinBirch Use @brave browser. I haven’t seen an ad in about a year. 15h15 hours ago
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