

To convert BAT tips to ordinary money, you'll have to sign up with Brave's cryptocurrency exchange partner, Uphold, and verify your identity. If you've already signed up as a creator, you can log in and add Twitter as a channel. First, you have to sign up as a creator through the Brave creators website. Receiving BAT - from Twitter tips or other Brave payments - is more complicated. If the person doesn't sign up in that period, the BAT becomes available to you again. If you tip somebody who hasn't signed up for the system, the They'll arrive for everyone in coming weeks, with Reddit and Vimeo appearing first, Brave said. Reddit, Vimeo and GitHub tipping is in test versions of Brave. In areas where Brave shows ads, such as the United States, it no longer offers grants. You can add your own money with the "add funds" option in the BAT menu, wait for Brave to grant you some freebie BAT, or enable Brave ads. There are three ways to get the BAT you'll need to send tips or other contributions. A direct payment relationship between creator and consumer can sidestep much of the trouble. But they bring problems, including fraudulent clicks, slow performance, shorter battery life and, most notably, invasions ofĪs advertisers follow you around the web. Ads foot the bill for everything from Instagram to Google search. It's all a significant change in the way web publishers have historically financed themselves. Won't let you offer channel membership unless you have 30,000 subscribers, and the companies offering the platforms take a cut of the revenue - 30% in the case of YouTube, 5% for Brave's Twitter tips. Often there are strings attached, though - for example,

Facebook is testing subscriptions and YouTube has its channel memberships, both starting at $5 a month.

Available now on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux.Brave's introduction of Twitter tipping is part of a broader move toward direct funding of people who publish useful, interesting and entertaining information on the web. Brave even lets you contribute to your favorite publishers automatically with Basic Attention Token. Brave is an open-source, privacy-protecting, performant web browser that blocks ads and trackers by default from the inventor of Javascript and co-founder of Mozilla & Firefox.īrave blocks the ads and trackers that slow you down, chew up your bandwidth, and invade your privacy.
