Yes, you've probably heard this a million times from people trying to pump up a coin or token just so they can make money but this token has potential. I'm not going to promise that you will become rich but currently it's sitting at a mere $0.39 which is tremendously undervalued. This token has some of the greatest minds working on it, is not well known yet, and is not a speculative asset unlike many other alts out there. This makes the Basic Attention Token($BAT) one of the most promising tokens to this date.
Most people are probably wondering what $BAT even is. $BAT is a token that is connected to the Brave browser that has also been created by the same extrodinary team. (Download: https://brave.com) and is directly challenging Google and Facebook. "Brave is a fast, open source, privacy-focused browser that blocks ads and trackers, and contains a ledger system that anonymously measures user attention aggregate to accurately reward publishers." (https://basicattentiontoken.org/about).
Here is a quick summary of the token taken from their website:
"Digital advertising is broken. It is a market filled with middlemen and fraudsters, hurting users, publishers and advertisers. The Basic Attention Token (BAT) was developed to address this. BAT, an ERC20 token built on top of Ethereum, will be the token of utility in a new, decentralized, open source and efficient blockchain-based digital advertising platform. " (https://basicattentiontoken.org/about).
The Basic Attention Token($BAT) has the most solid team out of any alt out there. I will name some of the top team members but urge you to go take a look for yourself! (https://basicattentiontoken.org/about).
TEAM MEMBERS:
Founder: Brendan Eich
-Created JavaScript. Co-founded Mozilla & Firefox
Co-Founder: Brian Bondy
-Previously: Khan Academy, Mozilla, Evernote
Security and Privacy Engineering: Yan Zhu
-EFF Fellow. Previously: Yahoo, Tor Project, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger
Smart Contracts and Economics: Scott Locklin
-Co-founded Kerf Software. Machine Learning, Forecasting & Quantitative Finance
Brand & Interaction Design: Bradley Richter
-Previously: EFI/Fiery, Co-creator: eBeam & Luidia, Percipo. Advising Circullio
Communications: Catherine Corre
-Previously: AOL, Netscape
Go-To-Market: Brian Brown
-Previously: Co-founded Joyent. Deputy Editor WSJ, Brussels.
Ledger and Wallet Systems: Marshall Rose
-PhD, UC Irvine. Creator: SNMP; Previously on the Internet Engineering Task Force
ADVISORS: Former Coinbase & Google Employees
These are just the top 8 team members that working to build one the most innovative browser & tokens to this date. Not only do they have an exceptional team but they have some elite advisors. Some of these advisors worked previously for Coinbase, Mojo Nation, DigiCash, Google and Tomorro LLC. Having an advisor who previously worked for Coinbase is huge because this gives them a connection to possibly getting their token listed on the Coinbase app. This would result in a HUGE increase in value.
NOT WELL KNOWN:
The Basic Attention Token and Brave Browser is not well known yet and has so much room to grow. The online advertising space generates around $300-500 billion in revenue allowing a lot of room for these two to grow. This combo would ultimately fix the advertising space and would make publishers and user much happier at no cost to anyone.
COINBASE:
I believe that Coinbase will add $BAT as one of their ERC-20 tokens. This part is speculative and you shouldn't base your investment decision off of this.
NOT SPECULATIVE:
While most tokens and coins are purely speculative and have nothing to show for their price movement, $BAT has Brave. They have a solid and reputable team who are trying to improve the general online experience. Facebook and Google acquire over 60% of ad revenue. The ads are annoying and hurt user experience while limiting contributions made to publishers. (http://fortune.com/2017/07/28/google-facebook-digital-advertising).
WHERE TO BUY:
-Uphold inc
-Binance
-BitTrex
-Cryptopia
-BTER
In the end, I would recommend checking out the Basic Attention Token and the Brave browser. These two will have a huge impact in the future and will change the online advertising space. $BAT sitting at $0.39 is a complete steal.
-Do not base investments off of this article but off of your own research.
-I own $BAT
Donations:
Bitcoin : 1MArLC3iDJ2T9pkW3dfRJtidJ1r7qnj3a
Ethereum: 0xAE996c687CcCEC12C3e588680C763ddb48c84d88
Basic Attention Token: 0xAE996c687CcCEC12C3e588680C763ddb48c84d88
Litecoin: LeXqLtey4dXFiHRU1UEj4GXLppck9Z47Tm