Brave Rewards launches in latest version of Brave for Android
Brave Browser, an open-source web browser based on the Chromium web browser, and its utility token, BAT has been making headlines with updates pertaining to the project’s development and the token’s price surge. Now, the project is back in the limelight with the launch of Brave Rewards in the latest version of Brave for Android.
Additionally, to commemorate this event, the team announced that it would be granting 100,000 BAT to Brave Android users, in an official blog post. According to the post, each BAT token will be worth around $5, and users can receive it by clicking on the “accept button in Brave Rewards”.
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Bat-chriscat said on Reddit,
“Just to be clear, this particular release on Android includes the Tipping feature, but not the Ads (earning) feature just yet. However, it now exposes the BAT token symbol and idea of BAT (in the URL bar) to millions upon millions of Android Brave users.”
Moreover, the Founder of Brave, Brendan Eich, recently spoke about how Brave generates revenue and the future of the project, in an interview with . He stated that they would be doing ads that would be privately matched by the browser, based on the user’s interest.
“and puts them in the place that the publisher has arranged for us to have an ad. The ads are static […] they won’t look like these crazy flyover ads. But it will allow publishers to get the big revenue share”
He stated that,
“We give 70% to the owner of the ad space. And then we get the same 15% that we give to the user. That’s why we use the triangle logo–you have users, advertisers, and publishers. This is something that hasn’t been fully tried. It’s complex. So it’s a multi-year mission.”
After hovering around $300 for weeks after its initial fork, bitcoin Cash (BCH) skyrocketed to triple its value over the last two days.
On August 1, the bitcoin blockchain forked to little fanfare. Although the new bitcoin Cash (BCH) token quickly spiked to around $1000 in its opening hours, it soon after tumbled into a stagnant holding level around $300. In the meantime, and posted all-time highs on a nearly daily basis. The question on everyone’s minds: Sell or hold their BCH?
Now it seems we have our answer. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, BCH surged past previous highs to over $1000 on Saturday morning. It has since stabilized at $800 and is trading at $788.14 as of press time.
BCH’s trading volume also recently surpassed that of BTC. CoinMarketCap now shows BCH edging out BTC trading volumes by a margin of roughly 300 million. In the meantime, BTC price has been sliding down, although it has yet to dip below its $4000 benchmark.
Thanks to bitcoin Cash’s new price, mining the BCH blockchain is now more profitable than mining legacy BTC. Additionally, block 479,808 on the BCH blockchain will likely adjust the difficulty for BCH mining downwards by 50% sometime this weekend.
Following this adjustment, bitcoin Cash miners will earn more than double mining BCH than they would legacy BTC. As miners switch to the new blockchain, the increased hashpower and lower transaction fees on the BCH blockchain will likely drive more investors to bitcoin Cash.
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Although profitability on the BCH chain could potentially skyrocket over the weekend, other factors may encourage miners to remain on the BTC chain. For one, miners are paid and extra 1.5 BTC per block on the legacy bitcoin blockchain, leading to much higher rewards. Additionally, miners earn rewards on the BTC chain much faster than the BCH chain- bitcoin takes about 17 hours whereas bitcoin Cash takes about 34 hours.
As South Korea Goes, So Goes The Market
Increased demand from South Korea is also driving up prices. Trading jumped to ten times its previous volume prior to the surge, much of it in South Korean won. In fact, data from CoinMarketCap shows that roughly $2.1 billion of BCH’s $3.5 billion trade volume (around 60%) is coming from just three South Korean exchanges – Bithumb, Coinone, and Korbit.
Analysts previously surmised that increased international tensions between the US and North Korea were the driving factor behind BTC’s rally last week. Caught in the middle of this fiery rhetoric is South Korea, a current hotspot for digital currency trading.
With cryptocurrencies slowly becoming a new (if unlikely) safe haven from government turmoil, there now seems to be a growing connection between crypto trading and regional turmoil.
This was previously , particularly in Nigeria, where the nairi overnight due to crashing oil prices. Google Trends showed increased interest in bitcoin immediately following the crash, indicating an interest from Nigerian citizens in moving their money to a safer reserve currency.
This is also now being , which is currently undergoing a sheer economic apocalypse. Prices for consumer goods in the South American country have skyrocketed a from early 2016 to early 2017. Venezuelan online travel agency Destinia for payment citing “increasing restrictions” and economic woes in the country.
Do you think a new “flippening” is in the making? Will BCH overtake BTC in the near future? Tell us your predictions in the comments below.
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