"Brave" - New, faster browser with integrated BTC micropayments - page 3.

maokoto

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Yes it is indeed interesting news and very convenient to pay directly from browser. If they manage to make a really fast browser it might have some serious adoption and that would help bitcoin. Just imagine tipping your favorite blogs and sites directly from browser.

criptix

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If 10% of mozilla users will use brave and 10% of brave users will use btc.
Tbh i think there will be a shitton of new ppl. O.o

DimensionZ

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Shit, did I leave the stove on?

But what if I don't want to use the BitGo wallet. I currently use an online based wallet where I can enable the bitcoin payment links to be handled by my Firefox browser and forward me to the wallet page so I can authorize the transactions. I feel better having the power over my funds and what I do with them.

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This makes me have second thought about them. The good part would be the would surely manage to introduce BTCitcoin to some of it's users and the bad part would be, not sure if it would be entirely safe to use browser base wallets and to add to that up, on the faq tab they said "we will use BTC only for permissionless payment delivery to user and publisher wallets that we will create using BitGo’s APIs" meaning we can't use our own created wallets unless it's created with BitGo's API which is a big turn off for limiting users to use BitGo wallets only (for those who don't know, BitGo is restricted for some countries).

CoinCube

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Interesting, thanks I will have to keep an eye on this

pawel7777

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There's new project from Brendan Eich (co-founder of Mozilla and creator of the JavaScript) coming soon. It's a browser called 'Brave', which is supposed to be much faster, due to auto-blocking certain type of ads (and replacing them with their own ads).

https://www.brave.com/index.html

What's interesting, they do intend to implement integrated BTC payments, in partnership with BitGo. From FAQ:

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8. How do you use Bitcoin (BTC)?

We’re still developing the system, now entirely in the open source on github.com, but at this point we know we will use BTC only for permissionless payment delivery to user and publisher wallets that we will create using BitGo’s APIs. We hope to keep funds in BTC only in monthly payment buffers, to reduce effects of volatility. We intend to let expert users “bring their own BTC” to self-fund their wallets and auto-micropay for as much of their browsing as they like.

I doubt whether they'll manage to capture large share of the market, but that still sounds like pretty big news.

Some related press coverage:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/mozilla-co-founder-unveils-brave-a-web-browser-that-blocks-ads-by-default/
http://www.cnet.com/news/is-the-ad-blocking-brave-browser-too-good-to-be-true/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3025314/browsers/former-mozilla-ceo-reveals-brave-a-browser-that-speeds-up-the-web-by-blocking-all-ads.html
http://venturebeat.com/2016/01/20/brave-browser/

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