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by Barrin92 1399 days ago
>It's not "made up".

of course it is. It's a pre-mined token that has only one incentive, and that is to get more people to use Brave and BAT. They could have simply payed you in dollars, Ethereum or Bitcoin directly, right? No harder to credit you with an existing, relatively stable crypto currency. The difference is of course, they would have to actually pay for that and you'd have no incentive to pump up the currency.

it's pretty genius in a way to bolt a MLM scheme on top of a browser.