It’s free, it connects to hardware wallets - if you choose - and it will allow you to use dApps, distributed apps, natively in browser as well as buy crypto, make payments, trade crypto, and more. Now Brave is adding a native cryptocurrency wallet built into the browser. Also, people earn crypto, the basic attention token, when they agree to see ads, so you monetize your time instead of Google or Facebook monetizing your time. They’ve got privacy-focused browsing for one thing. So Brave has done some super interesting things in the browser space. It was literally hard to give my kids some small amounts of Ethereum because KYC and AML protocols - know your customer, anti-money laundering - are all in effect.

Only 13% of us have crypto and it’s still pretty hard to manage … wallets are complicated, accounts are challenging to set up. John Koetsier: Cryptocurrency is still very much an early adopter thing. (This transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity.)

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