@rrhoover Thanks for the kind words! So, I would not say that Brave has failed. I see them more as some kind of advanced ad blocker where the users' "attention" value (in the form of BAT) is passively split among all of the sites they've consumed/interacted with. My main criticism is that I think we should not use "attention" as a currency. It incentivizes the wrong behavior from the creators: try to "steal" as much time as possible from their customers. We're taking the route of explicit contributions: if I care about something, I want and easy way to pay for/contribute to it. Our hunch is that the reason most people don't pay for things is not so much because of their price (4 Starbucks lattes would probably cover the average users' ad contribution per month), than because it is just very complicated to actually pay for things (creating accounts, entering credit cards, hoping that their CC is secure, that they can easily cancel... etc). We hope to eventually unlock (pun intended!) a virtuous circle where reduced friction leads to higher conversion rates and then lower prices for individual locks... There is obviously a lot of work ahead of us!

@julien51 great thoughts. And to clarify, I wasn't implying Brave was a failure, but instead a new entrant in this space.

@patrick_udeh Thanks Patrick! This is v0... so yes it is fairly strict in requirements but we definitely are working on ways to open this open to anyone, using a crypto wallet or not.

@julien51 This looks nice! Wouldn't it make sense to show users what they would be paying, and for what? Right now you're just letting them know that their wallet is not connected, but without knowing what they are supposed to pay (and for what), I don't think they will proceed further. What happens on the backend after the payment is done? Do you convert it to $DAI to maintain price stability?