I am a proud owner of 15,000 BAT right now with an average price of .00061136 ETH. Here is why I think it will be huge in the days to come. But please let me know what you guys think as well.
The team:BAT is backed by Silicon Valley VCs like Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, among others.
BAT is from the inventor of JavaScript and founder of Mozilla & Firefox, Brendan Eich.
BAT is an Ethereum ERC20 token, which means you can use common hardware wallets like the Ledger Nano, MyEtherWallet, etc.
BAT is backed by Silicon Valley VCs like Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, among others.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tweeted on March 30th, 2017 that BAT is “exactly the sort of token we'd like to support on Coinbase and GDAX over the coming year, make it easy to buy/sell these with gov currencies.”
One of BAT's close advisers is Ankur Nandwani, who is/was Product Manager at Coinbase. He was the one who announced that Litecoin was added to Coinbase.
$BAT was recently added to a spate of exchanges, including big Chinese exchanges like Binance and Huobi.
You will be able to get paid for choosing to view ads with the BAT Ads program. Users receive 70% of ad revenue. Yes, 70%.
Brave & BAT have been covered in a lot of mainstream news recently, including Bloomberg, NASDAQ, CNET, Engadget, TechCrunch and more. It has also been promoted by Ubuntu Linux (on their FB page with 1.3m followers) and Rocket.Chat (on their official blog).
BAT is not limited to the Brave web browser but will be extended to other browsers via extensions (where APIs permit) and other attention-economy apps like chat messengers, podcast apps, games, etc.
Brave Payments, which utilizes $BAT, currently supports YouTubers. Support for Twitch, Reddit and Twitter, etc. have been confirmed. Brave Payments allows you to easily tip your favorite publishers and content creators, Patreon-style.
Over 1000 websites and over 600 YouTubers have been confirmed as verified publishers with the Brave Payments program—and counting. This includes big channels like Phil deFranco who has 6 million subscribers. (You can still tip/donate to your favorite sites/creators even if they aren’t yet verified since the $BAT will be held in a wallet for them to claim.)
The Brave web browser has over 1 million active monthly users. On the Android store alone, Brave has 1-5 million downloads. Brave is available on all platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux).
Other notable figures on the development team include Yan Zhu (Forbes top 30 under 30, Tor Project, W3C, EFF), Marshall Rose (inventor of SNMP, Internet Engineering Task Force) as well as many others who’ve worked on major projects. (Look at team on website.)
The Brave browser has one-click support for Ethereum dApps with Metamask. Brave is officially listed on Metamask’s website alongside Google Chrome.
You will be able to purchase $BAT with your credit or debit card directly through the built-in BAT wallet in Brave. This is a first priority for the team.
BAT officially partnered with privacy search engine DuckDuckGo, and they recently revealed more details on their relationship.
Brendan Eich said in a tweet yesterday that he heard Mozilla was potentially interested in natively integrated BAT.
https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/942115844087169024The supply of BAT is fixed and limited. No new BAT will ever be mined or created. Total supply is capped, like Bitcoin.
CEO Brendan Eich announced the other day that BAT/Brave is partnering with a Top 3 media company in the world.
Some things in the news:Biggest Youtuber PewDiePie (60 million subscribers) flashes BAT on screen
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/7h6gi4/pewdiepie_youtuber_with_58_million_subscribers/dqq8z4r/Facebook talk with BAT CEO Brendan Eich:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP2DFVUwgsUEich saying BAT/Brave has "a good relationship with apple"
https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/7l4033/transcript_of_ama_with_brendan_eich_ceo_of_brave/the team is very experienced and the idea is solid. Brendan Eich said however that it might take years for mass adoption to happen. Plenty of time for bat to improve and grow as a project