Do you mean https://brave.com/wallet/? > The secure, built-in crypto wallet that supercharges your browser for Web3. It sounds like it's simply a wallet, not that I personally want that in a browser at least not yet, not "earning" (do you mean mining). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

He has done some other controversial decisions like doubting the COVID pandemic²no-paywall. We also know for sure he supports crypto, Brave even has it's own token BAT³ and supports NFTs⁴ and even promotes them in their Brave Wallet⁵ built right into the browser. Source: about 1 year ago

Looks like (for now) we have to take Brave rewards outside of Brave wallet. Brave team says so: Brave Wallet FAQ Under “How is Brave Wallet different from Brave Rewards”. Source: over 1 year ago

Metamask and Brave wallets are free, popular and very easy to set up. They're considered hot wallets and not as secure as a hardware cold wallet like Ledger, but you'd have to wait for shipping and it isn't free. https://brave.com/wallet/ https://metamask.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

While custodial options may be limited by region, we’re working on a non-custodial Web3 option without regional limitations! Connecting a Web3 address will allow you to receive peer-to-peer contributions from your fans. For example, users with Brave Wallet will be able to send you BAT tips directly from their Brave Wallet to your website/channel’s Ethereum or Solana address. More updates to come. Source: over 1 year ago

Agreed. Brave actually implemented this exact thing[1], and then got dumped together with other crypto scam projects, which continues to happen in this very thread. Crypto haters are quick to shout that cryptocurrencies have no practical use, and introduce many problems, but this is a perfect use case for them. The negative discussion has detracted from some truly disrupting technologies being adopted, which is a... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions" And more recently Brave, the browser tried to implement it. "Crypto and DeFi are hard to use and the $330 billion digital advertising industry is failing users, publishers and advertisers. With Basic Attention Token and Brave we want to take Crypto to the next 1B users and solve the endemic inefficiencies and privacy... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

Not just ads that make it past the filters, but ones that Brave the company sends to you. See and https://basicattentiontoken.org/. Source: 12 months ago

Brave's Basic Attention Tokens, or BAT, are bridged across Ethereum and Solana per BAT's website; Ethereum previously used a proof-of-work model which had an awful environmental impact, but has since moved to a more efficient proof-of-stake model in September 2022, which the Ethereum Foundation claimed at the time would reduce energy use by 99.95%, though I can't find anything on the actual results. Solana as far... Source: over 1 year ago

As far as I know, it’s alright. Firefox (and some forks of it) are considered better with the right tweaks. Un-googled chromium and Brave are generally considered your best bets for a chromium-based browser (some sites unfortunately rely on chromium, though your mileage may vary). I think Brave is considered to be a bit more secure than un-googled chromium (don’t quote me on that)— but the trade off is that... Source: over 1 year ago