I try to earn a little bit from using the Brave browser and some would say it isn't that much but overtime it stacks up to a little bit of something and then someone could degen out and trade around with it. Inflation is certainly kicking everyone's teeth in so people just have to get after it out there.
I never did try the Brave browser because i was already on Linux, and already not seeing adverts.
Sandman was promoting his Brave affiliate link, and was so successful, that something like ¼ of the new Brave users were signing up through him (i could be wrong on the number, but it was sizeable) and Brave stopped paying him thinking it was a scam. And then they stopped paying him because there was a "ceiling" in the fine print.
Over that kefuffel he sold out of BAT.
And, to answer the other question, people are just too stressed out to look into this new-fangled, magical internet money. They have enough thinking about surviving. They don't want anything new. They don't want anything risky.
But, if someone made a lottery-coin and sold it at all the alcohol-tabacco shops, we could get a lot of people onboard.
Just think, when bitcoin was around $1000 if there were machines right next to the lottery ticket machines. A lot of people would be rich now.
How much does the "average" person spend on the lottery?
I do remember that in the early days some people getting big rewards for spreading the word. It was an interesting distribution mechanism in a lot of ways. Essentially take an open source piece of software and package some privacy blockers with it and distribute the BAT token and then make people pay for ads.
I never earned anything crazy with it but it is something that stacks up a big and every so often sort of becomes a little chunk to grease the wheels.
It is nuts with gambling and how people really get lured into playing something like that. I do think that has been a huge boost to some of the sports that were a little more on the fringe like WNBA. Now they have way bigger fan bases but part of that I think is because the sports betting got approved a lot more places.
People really want to gamble and in some respects it makes sense because at some point they realize they aren't going to get ahead really working a regular job and a lot figure they don't have the knowledge or the drive to hustle any other time.
No! I did try years ago. It didn’t work out well here!
Do they not have Uphold or is Thailand blocked?