10 Podcasts With Brendan Eich, Founder of Brave

Brave founder Brendan Eich is Silicon Valley royalty…

He worked with Marc Andreessen as part of the original team at Netscape… While he was there he created the JavaScript programming language (in only 10 days).

Since that time he’s also been on a roll…

He co-founded Mozilla and the Mozilla Foundation.

Today Eich is the founder and CEO of Brave Software and Basic Attention Token (BAT), a “utility token based on the Ethereum technology that can also be used as a unit of account between advertisers, publishers, and users in a new, blockchain-based digital advertising and services platform”…

Brave Software runs the Brave Browser, a privacy focused web browser that competes with other browsers such as Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

BAT raised $35 million in 30 seconds in an ICO¹ on May 31, 2017.

Now you can buy Brave on Coinbase.

I find the Brave Browser really interesting. The benefits of using Brave, either on web or mobile, are:

Blocks unwanted content (saving you data costs on your phone)
Up to 8x faster than Chrome and Safari (because it’s not loading trackers, etc.)
Offers Tor browsing on desktop (mobile coming soon)
Offers blockchain based micropayments using Basic Attention Token (BAT)

Brave is interesting because it makes Basic Attention Token (BAT) actually have a purpose that I can get my head around. To me, if Brave is solving a real problem with web privacy, it could get real traction.

Podcasts With Brendan Eich

To learn more about the Brave Browser and Basic Attention Token (BAT) you can check out these podcasts with Brendan Eich:

Enjoy!

Footnotes

Initial Coin Offering