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Built Over Brave, Gab’s Browser Plans to Use Bitcoin Instead of BAT

Built over brave, gab’s browser plans to use bitcoin instead of bat

Built Over Brave, Gab’s Browser Plans to Use Bitcoin Instead of BAT

Built over brave, gab’s browser plans to use bitcoin instead of bat

Gab is using Brave’s open source code to build its browser, Dissenter, and plans to integrate bitcoin’s Lightning Network and replace BAT tokens, reported Decrypt Media, April 25, 2019.

Brave CEO Not Impressed by Dissenter

The free-speech social media platform Gab has been blocked out from almost all payment processors and web host providers on the market. The company had been on the lookout for ways to resist this boycott and not be silenced due to the external pressures.

And they seem to have found a way out.

Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab, told Decrypt Media that they have created their web browser, which is a forked version of the Brave browser, and plan to release it in the next few weeks.

Brave browser CEO, Brendan Eich, clearly wasn’t impressed by this move and let his followers know on Twitter:

“Answer this: what kind of parasite forks an open source browser to get an extension distributed to people who can already work around silly AppStore bans? Brave is for users who dare to take back control of their data. Some who wants a detached comment system can use Dissenter.”

Torba responded to Eich’s comment and justified the move by saying that the whole point of open source projects, such as Brave, is to offer others an opportunity to build over the existing code and add more value to it. Even Brave itself is built on top of the Google Chromium project, he reminded.

“I can’t imagine any legitimate reason why Brendan or anyone else would have a problem with this,” Torba added.

Empowering Users not Advertisers

According to Torba, Brave’s feature of rewarding Basic Attention Token (BAT) to users for engaging with advertisements empowers the advertisers, while he feels that it should be the other way round.

In the forked version of Brave, Gab has removed those parts, including BAT token, from the browser “that weren’t needed” while keeping those that align with their motive of giving their users the upper hand.

Torba described the browser as something that is outside the control of the Silicon Valley companies. His idea is to create a free-speech browser, marketplace, and app store powered by bitcoin, the free speech money.

Speaking on the Lightning Network integration, Torba said that they’re already working with a very influential Lightning Network company, but do not have any public news on that.

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Published at Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:35:31 +0000

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Network congestion is a problem most users would associate with bitcoin or Ethereum. Both of these networks have seen their fair share of issues in this regard. bitcoin Cash saw its transaction backlog grow quite spectacularly this morning. For several hours, someone – or a group of people – were flooding the network with very low-fee transactions. As a result, there was a minor delay in transactions, although things were well within the acceptable limits.  Why any of this is happening right now, has yet to be determined.

bitcoin Cash has not been subject to major spam attacks as of yet. bitcoin, on the other hand, seems to get clogged up with transactions every other week. Keeping this in mind, it’s not surprising to see so many people flock to BCH in recent weeks. This has caught the attention of whoever is responsible for the current “spam” on the BCH blockchain. More specifically, there have been a ton of new transactions to fill up the blocks rather quickly. A rather worrisome development, although things were handled relatively well.

bitcoin Cash Handles the Business

The big question is why anyone would flood the BCH network with low-fee transactions. At a price of 1 Satoshi per byte, inflating overall fees would be rather difficult. After all, users can easily pay double that and not have their transactions delayed. Even with the higher fee, Bitcoin Cash remains a lot cheaper than BTC right now. With this cost in mind, it would cost approximately $16,000 to flood the network for an entire day. That doesn’t seem like much money, thus it is possible this is a well-orchestrated attack. For now, there is no solid evidence to back up such claims.

Unlike what one would expect, this issue has not caused many problems. The bitcoin Cash mempool has been cleared relatively quickly and things are returning to normal. If this was an attack, it was a very weak attempt at causing permanent damage. If such an issue were to affect bitcoin, the fees would skyrocket and transactions backlogged for 24 hours or more. Having a larger block size can be rather beneficial in this regard. It also shows how BCH is better at scaling compared to bitcoin, at least for now.

Whether or not this is a prelude to more attacks, remains to be seen. No one will be surprised to see issues like these arise again in the future. The “fight” between BTC and BCH supporters is far from over Although it’s not exactly a turf war, hostilities are not entirely uncommon either. Attacking a network with low-fee transactions is despicable We don’t know if that is what has happened to bitcoin Cash, though. In the end, the issues seem largely resolved, which is a positive sign.

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