Tipping is important 'to connect users directly to their favorite creators,' Brendan Eich, Brave's chief executive and co-founder, said in an email interview.īrave's introduction of Twitter tipping is part of a broader move toward direct funding of people who publish useful, interesting and entertaining information on the web. Brave already lets you contribute BAT to website publishers, YouTubers and Twitch videogame streamers, and anyone receiving BAT can convert it into ordinary money. Twitter tipping is a bit more complicated than tossing a buck into a jar, though, since it relies on Brave's cryptocurrency-like payment technology called the basic attention token (BAT). Brave plans three more channels for individuals who want to tip or be tipped: the Reddit discussion forum, the GitHub programming site and the Vimeo video site. Brave users who like your tweets can tip you, too. The online gratuity service, which modifies each tweet with a 'tip' icon, should be available for Android and iOS in a few months. And now the Brave browser lets you put your money where your mouse is.īrave has built a Twitter tipping system into the newest version of the ad-blocking browser, released Thursday for Windows, MacOS and Linux. Liking tweets and retweeting them are fine ways to support your favorite Twitter personalities.

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