Have you ever wondered how you can tip your favorite content creator on video platforms or their own website without using donation, Paypal, etc.? One alternative is to become a Brave Rewards member. Brave Rewards allows you to earn free crypto currency in the form of Basic Access Tokens.
You sign up for Brave Publishers rewards program. Then you allow advertisements to dispaly in Brave Publishers web browser. You can keep these rewards for yourself or to trade for other crypto currency.
What you may not know, is that you can actually tip your favorite content creator(s) possibly with your excess Basic Access Tokens. Your favorite content creator would also need to sign up for Brave Rewards. Then they would need to become a verified Brave rewards content creator.
Now all you have to do is browse to your favorite content creators Youtube channel, website, etc. Then click on the Brave Rewards triangle icon to the right of the uniform resource locator address bar in Brave web browser. Look for "Verified Creator".
You want to make sure your favorite creator is a verified Brave Publishers Rewards verified content creator. If you see "Unverified Creator", this means this person, group, organization, etc. has not yet signed up for Brave Publishers Rewards program. If you tip them, your tip will expire after 90 days.
I would recommend that you only tip verified Brave Publishers rewards content creators. You can setup automatic monthly contributions. You would click on "Set" button next to "Monthly Contribution".
You will see a screen titled "Support this creator". The "Monthly" tab will already be selected. You can choose between 1 BAT, 5 BAT, or 10 BAT buttons.
You can click on one of these buttons or choose "Custom tip amount". Custom tip amount allows you to enter in a tip amount that is not rounded up to full numbers. Also, you will notice that your Basic Access Token tip amount is converted into your currency below the tip box.
You can choose to tip your favorite content creator one time by choosing "Send Tip". Again you can choose between 1 BAT, 5 BAT, or 10 BAT buttons. Also, you can click on "Custom tip amount" to send them a tip amount that is not rounded up to full numbers.
You will notice two opposite arrows icon. If you click on this icon, you can change from Basic Access Tokens to your currency. This allows you to enter in your tip as a currency, instead of in the value of a Basic Access Token.
Your available Basic Access Token balance is displayed as "BAT Funds". Your current Basic Access Token balance is displayed below this image. You will be warned if you do not have enough tokens to complete your tip.
Obviously you will want to choose or enter in a tip amount that is available in your BAT Funds balance. There are links to Brave Rewards privacy policy and terms of service you may want to read over first. If you do not have enough tokens you can click on "add funds".
You will be able to obtain some more Basic Access Tokens. Once you choose your tip amount you click on "Send Tip". You are not warned or given a preview screen.
For now, once you click on "Send Tip" your transaction is submitted. You will see this message:
Thanks for the support!
Your one-time tip has been sent.
One-time tip amount: 1.000 BAT Note: Your tip can take several minutes to process
That is all you have to perform in order to send your favorite content creator a tip using your Brave Publishers rewards account.
Tip Brave Rewards Creators Instructions - Video Transcript
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how to tip
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using brave
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rewards
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all right let me exit out of this let's
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start from the beginning
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number one you want to sign up and
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become a brave rewards member
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that will allow you to receive free
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basic access tokens from brave
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publishers for
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allowing advertisements to display in
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your brave web browser
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number two
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then you will want a brave content
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creator that is verified
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to tip
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i'm a brave rewards content creator i'm
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verified you can you know what i'm
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saying so i'm going to demonstrate this
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is the first time i've ever actually
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used the braver words tipping
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tool
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so i'll kill multiple birds with one
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stone also
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i still have not received any of my
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39.25 brave
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acce basic access tokens because i am
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not able to re-verify my brave wallet
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you can check out this video cannot
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re-verify brave wallet and you can also
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check out the verified brave wall
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instructions for that whole saga i'm not
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going to go over all of that saga i'll
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just be blunt
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brave rewards has been nothing but a
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disaster however you may
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be receiving free basic access tokens
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and there may be some content creators
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out on the internet they may have a
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website or a blog
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or a youtube channel and you want to
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tip them
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you know what i'm saying compensate them
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for their time and labor
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click on now you have to
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tip a verified brave
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content creator a brave
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rewards creator so click on the triangle
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at the top to the right of the uniform
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resource like cater in the address bar
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in braver awards web browser then you'll
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see this window i'm not going to discuss
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my
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wallet that has
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been disconnected and i cannot
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re-verify
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watch those previous two videos i
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pointed out to go through all that saga
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brave publishers their rewards program
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has been nothing but a disaster this is
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a warning to you also because that's how
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i roll i'm not real happy with this
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whole
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situation
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i'm gonna tip myself to kill multiple
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birds with one stone i can get my
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cryptos that i deserve for allowing
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advertisements to display in brave web
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browser and i can also show
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you
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people on how to actually tip properly
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so you want to make sure that this is
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displayed here verified creator
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i'm a verified brave
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creator rewards creator make sure that
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is highlighted
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and you see the blue
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check
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you can set a monthly contribution you
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would click on set
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i'm not going to
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show you anything about the monthly
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contribution
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you would just click on set and go
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through whatever prompts there are what
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happens is i think it's automated
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every month you will be tipping that
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braver words creator is whatever you
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choose whatever you configure it's
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automated every month so just become
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aware of that
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i'm gonna send myself a one-time tip
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so i'm gonna also there's a tip
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button here there's a summary i'm not
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sure what that is this is part of the
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brave wallet i believe and then the gear
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goes into the settings i'm not gonna
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show any of that let's just cut to the
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chase click on send tip now you're going
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to see another window that opens up
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make sure my encoder
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make sure my timer okay quickly quickly
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quickly
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on the left hand side you'll see a
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little notice possibly possibly from the
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content creator that you're tipping
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then this window will open up
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and then you can either set the monthly
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there's a monthly tab
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which i'm not going to
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configure
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but if you did not click on set in the
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previous window you have a second chance
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to tip monthly let's go back to one time
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setup or excuse me one time tip
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you can see my balance basic access
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token funds
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you have obviously you have to have some
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basic access tokens
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i'm not sure if you have to have an
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entire full one you may be 0.25 who
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knows you could just try it out i have
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39.25
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you could select one of the defaults
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one bat which is worth a dollar seven
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in us dollars fiat five baht which would
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be worth 537 us dollars you just click
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on these and it'll
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choose that as your tip
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tan bat basic access tokens would be
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10.73
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in u.s dollars now i'm assuming that if
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you're using a different currency
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british pounds or
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mexican pesos or chinese yen
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or whatever that
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it would show the amount in your
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currency your i'm assuming you're a
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local currency
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all right but i'm not an expert so don't
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quote me on that
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all right custom tip amount which is
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what i'm going to enter now let's go
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over this quick warning brave collects
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five percent of the tip amount as a
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processing fee by proceeding you agree
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to the terms of service and privacy
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policy since a lot of these billion
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dollar fascist crooked criminal corrupt
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corporations are greedy you may want to
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start reading terms of service and
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privacy policy for these companies no no
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i'm not saying brave publishers is a
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billion dollar or trillion dollar
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corporation yet but however their brave
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rewards program has been nothing but a
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disaster and i've made multiple videos
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discussing
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the problems and i'm not the only one
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that's been having these problems you
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know what i'm saying
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so i'm not going to sugarcoat this and
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you know brag about how great it is and
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no no no no however if you haven't had
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that many problems you can certainly tip
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content creators that you
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you know watch or that you like or that
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you think are productive because it
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should help out i know i know youtube
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content creators i'm not a full-time one
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however i know people
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frown upon the full-time i don't have a
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problem at all
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i don't see why
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you may be surprised how much
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work is involved in creating these
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videos now me personally i never script
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my videos i completely freestyle them
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i never edit videos i haven't
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streamlined it doesn't take me that much
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work
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however full time that would be a
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different story
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and so i think it is good to also
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compensate youtube content creators
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because they may be making peanuts
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or
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pennies on the dollar from google
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adsense you know what i'm saying or they
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may be millionaires but if they are
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they're getting millions and millions
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and millions and millions to me the
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algorithm is rigged anyways i digress
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about that i better not better be
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careful you have to be careful on you
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excuse me political correctness we
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censor you
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tube okay now let's get along with this
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video because i don't want to make it
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too much longer custom tip amount so now
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you're going to be able to
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set a custom tip amount you could choose
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you could click on the two arrows which
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will change it to your local currency
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i'm assuming it would be your local
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currency
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if you're using a different currency
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or you could switch it back and then i
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have a balance here that i know 39.25 i
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want it all i'm greedy i'm greedy just
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like youtube i mean just like
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great publishers i mean
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oh there it is there's my my
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timer excellent
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39.250 now i'm going to click on
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continue but before i click on continue
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i want to transition you're going to see
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a blank screen because i have never ever
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used this tool before and i do not want
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to
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show you any information that i don't
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want you to know
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computer security is extremely important
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especially nowadays every day on this
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third-party website that is earn
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supplemental income
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individuals are complaining that their
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google account or their facebook account
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or their or their banking account
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or their paypal account has been
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circumvented
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here i'm saying
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now it tells you how much
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you're going to tip you are about to tip
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39.25 basic access tokens
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which would amount right now forty two
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dollars and twelve cents in united
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states dollars fiat
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and that's about a dollar point zero
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seven per basic access token and then
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they gets keep warning you about the
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five percent i'm gonna lose five percent
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of this i'm tipping myself but i'm i'm
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tipping myself to show you
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how to tip
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you know what i'm saying and so i can
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get my brave bat basic access tokens out
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of my wallet because of my problem with
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my
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wallet not verified and i cannot verify
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it i'm not gonna just discuss that again
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you can watch this video link bravery
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wars excuse me my bad
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brave web bro no no
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anyways okay let's just send the tip but
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let me make sure that
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i send the tip i'm gonna click on the
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send tip button i'm doing it right now
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thanks for your support okay i can show
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you the screen
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all right
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thanks for the support your one-time tip
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has been sent one time tip amount
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39.250 basic access tokens
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note your tip can take several minutes
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to process
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tweet about your support i'm not sure
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why did you know i do not use twitter
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did you know that i do well i don't
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really have a facebook account
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i can't even access it
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and no no no it was not circumvented
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it's just like
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i'm telling you man
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i'm about done with the internet it's a
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very possible
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hypocrisy it's
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contradictory in terms
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i obviously make a living as a
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self-employed
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information technology
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individual on the internet
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these websites instead of building
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secure websites
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they're just paranoid
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i know i sound like a paradox or a
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contradiction in terms i know earlier in
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the video i warned you about computer
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security one problem is a lot of these
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websites are really not designed very
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well they're not really secured
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i mean for what 20 years ever since the
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hypertext transfer protocol was created
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you had old school websites that were
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just static html
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and they very very rarely did they have
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problems but all of a sudden nowadays
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it's like and then now it's all
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obsessive
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and i just don't want to discuss it it's
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like i just rather just
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disconnect from the internet although i
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reduce my internet footprint because i'm
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sick and tired of these shenanigans
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i think these these
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technology companies could build
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websites
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that would be secure and would not
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require all of the
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paranoia
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is what i consider it and all the
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just absurdity you know what i'm saying
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they're upset i don't even want to
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discuss it i'm just sick and tired of
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this but
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twitter no way i would never use twitter
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so but i guess i don't know you could
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break and tweet about yours i don't i
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guess that's to
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mark it i don't know
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anything further
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let's now they said a few minutes so i
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got this video is already too long
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so
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let me transition again because
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now you know what i should be able to
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show you my i don't really care if you
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see the
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my balance let's click on up here and
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see if my brave wallet is
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oh yes look my encoder should be
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capturing that you should be able to see
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that i think
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oh yeah yeah because it just disappeared
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okay let me click that again it looked
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like my tip went through
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it
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stipulates well brave rewards
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widget whatever you want to call this
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wrote
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stipulates zero bat basic access tokens
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nothing it's all done now if i could
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verify i could probably click on summary
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which i'm not going to go through that
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or i could click on the the gear
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and verify it looks like it's gone
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hopefully
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now i'm keeping my fingers crossed
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hopefully they sent
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that basic access token to myself
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i will lose five percent
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however i will have around i what what
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is the math five percent of 39.25
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i'll have a little over 30 35 whatever
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that i can now trade with
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and for now that is my
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workaround so in summation you can check
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out this cannot re-verify brave wallet
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fix and you can also check out this
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verified brave wall instructions if you
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want all the details about this quagmire
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that i have been
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involved in with brave rewards for now
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this is
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a solution
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this is a work around until brave but
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one more quick note brave publishers i
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contacted their support
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they responded pretty quickly well it
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was a couple of weeks which wasn't too
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bad to me well quickly whatever
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odyssey.com they responded when i had a
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problem the next day so but whatever
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i'm not anyways i'm not even going to
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discuss that
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they claim that they were working on a
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option where you can
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remove your
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verified devices or they're going to
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remove that entirely they claim they're
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working on it
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i don't know when that's going to occur
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for now this is a workaround so that i
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can get my
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basis access tokens that i earned for
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free that will be a future video you
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might want to check out my video i'm not
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sure when i'm going to record it
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you might want to check out a future
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video where i
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discuss how you can sign up and earn
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free basic access tokens
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by allowing brave excuse me by
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allowing advertisements to show up in
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brave web browser number one anyways you
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you're gonna have to watch the video and
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i'll have all the details
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i am not saying that brave publishers is
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a complete you know i i you have to be
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careful what words you use i'm not
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saying
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they are worth a dollar seven i know
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that for a fact
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because for a while they were depositing
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the base six axis tokens into my uphold
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i would receive them and then i would
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either keep them i have about 70 basic
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access tokens right now
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the rest i traded away i started with
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nothing zero
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then i
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had around 250 after i checked after my
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wallet was disconnected and i couldn't
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and it wasn't verifying and then i
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finally studied and i learned the
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process
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on how you know your wallet gets
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verified
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it gets disconnected you can try to
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re-verify it then you have the four
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device limit blah blah blah blah blah
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now this is a workaround
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they have i don't know why they quit
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depositing
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i don't know why
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and i think it has something to do with
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the wallet however i don't know because
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two weeks ago was about a month ago i
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received an email from uphold saying
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that brave just
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sent
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you brave publisher sent you a dollar
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18.
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and my wallet was not verified it was
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disconnected i had a balance
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and i'm gonna turn i may turn the ads
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back on again and then i'll just let
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them build up and then i'll just you
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know tip myself again adios