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> I don't see how a blockchain-based approach, with so many disadvantages compared to Persona, could possibly succeed outside of the blockchain enthusiast community

What’s in it for the user to sign up for persona? Nothing

What’s in it for the user to get a crypto wallet? Money

There’s your answer.

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The major problem with crypto-bros is that they think "money" is a good enough answer. Money is an extrinsic motivator, and extrinsic motivators extinguish intrinsic motivation.

Money will never be a good enough reason to do things. Especially not the infinitesimal fractions of garbage coins that web3 will pay.

I don't know. Brave promised me money, and I still haven't gotten anything of significant value from that.

Really? BAT was pretty profitable. Showing me a few ads as desktop notifications paid for a lot of my transaction costs in the early days. I just looked, BAT is up 754% over all time.

Twice, on different devices, I tried Brave as my default browser for month with ads turned on, and both times after a month of clicking on ads, the browser still said I had 0.0 BAT.

Sigh, not sure why my first comment was downvoted.

No idea as to why you didn't get any payments, but I do know that you don't have to click on the ads.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/360026361072-Bra...

"Users are rewarded for viewing ad notifications as they appear in Brave. Users are not rewarded for clicking on ads."

I have about $100 in BAT from the initial Brave giveaway, even though I almost never use Brave aside from testing.

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