During the pandemic and in the subsequent months since Brave's BAT rewards were cut several times along with the value of BAT itself decreasing. This double whammy made it to where a lot of people finally reached the point of not even wanting to see the banners a few times an hour and turned the rewards off themselves. As the world recovered we started seeing more and more advertisements again but at least for me that did not translate into that big of an increase in my BAT payout or drive up the price of BAT. I would not chalk up to my feelings as those of concern but it was something I started to pay more attention to since at the end of the day what was going on just did not add up.
Everything changed though over the last two months
These last two months I think I have earned more BAT than I earned over several months last year. The in March I earned a little over 8 BAT and then in April I eclipsed the 9 BAT threshold. Those are some good old classic BAT earning numbers from way way back in the day! Last year it seemed that no matter how much or how little I used BRAVE I was a solid lock for ~3.5 BAT maybe 4 if I had just gone nuts on the browser. Even with the price going gangbusters earlier this year hitting a high of $0.38 per BAT my earnings were still in that 3-4 range.
Now even factoring in the price pullback all the way to $0.25 a BAT that 8 BAT earned is a nice little $2 earn. Considering I can imagine BAT performing extremely well in an alt coin season, after all just look at how it performed the first couple of months this year, I easily could see it hitting $0.75 to a $1. Not to mention those of us who used Gemini to lend our BAT should be getting 90% of our BAT, we had lent, back in just a couple of months. Personally I think I have 125 to 150 BAT that were stuck there so freeing those will be great as well.
Given the 100s of ads I am seeing a month and more importantly seeing those ads pay out in more BAT is a huge plus for the Brave Browser itself and the BAT ecosystem. With Brave starting to offer more and more users the ability to receive the rewards via self custody on the Solana blockchain there is a solid and growing base of momentum for BAT moving forward.
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