Topic: [2018-12-28] journalducoin.com - Youtuber Tom Scott refuses donations in BAT (Read 127 times)

Original article > https://journalducoin.com/altcoins/brave-bat-le-youtubeur-tom-scott-refuse-les-dons-en-bat/

My translation (apologies for the possible mistakes here and there):

The browser Brave allows its users to thank the creators of content on YouTube / Twitch / Twitter / Reddit by donating them in Basic Attention token (BAT). But a problem that developers Brave probably had not anticipated: some content creators do not want to receive these gifts!

BAT? No thanks !
Tom Scott, a youtuber with 1.4 million subscribers on his channel, has obviously forged a very bad opinion of cryptocurrencies, probably because of the crypto-bashing of mainstream media. He very badly took the news to receive donations in BAT tokens thanks to (because of?) Brave.

Tom Scott explains on Twitter that "Brave, take cryptocurrency donations "for me", using my name and photo, without my consent."

Brave did not see that coming: a content creator who refuses the donations of his fans consulting his creations!

Problems underlying BAT donations

Yet, past the initial astonishment, this reaction of Tom Scott is quite understandable. When a donation is made to an individual who is not enrolled in the Brave program, the company keeps the tokens: they are put in receivership. Thus, if the Youtube channel or the website which is the object of the said donation does not appear, the tokens will never be perceived. The donor generator would then be potentially fooled, thinking to have paid a creator who has in fact never received his gift and was kept by Brave.

Brave and his Basic Attention Token system are still young, and will need to improve. As for Tom Scott, he sent Brave a request regarding the right to be forgotten by the recent European GDPR.