Today I read a post in Bitcoin Magazine about a new web browser called Brave.
The Idea Behind Brave
Everyone hates being inundated by advertisements when going to a website. Brave is a web search provider that eliminates ads. Instead of sites profiting off advertisements, Brave allows webhosts to make money from the users that actually visit their site.
How Brave works:
1. Go to www.brave.com and download the browser
2. Go into settings and add your bitcoin to the “Payments” tab (You do not have to put money into the website in order to utilize it’s no-ad capabilities)
3. Once you’ve added bitcoin, start using Brave as your web browser and look at your “usage by website”
4. Depending on how much you pledged for the month, the funds in your account will be dispersed to the websites you visited the most
Is this enough to disrupt the trillion dollar industry of marketing? Probably not. But Brave is an introduction to the new economy. Where peers interact with peers voluntarily and there is no need for the middleman.