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Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together by lalaland1125 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:19AM (#22424339)
> Brave could make a new BAT token and point their browser to use it

This by itself is strong proof of centralization. Brave can unilaterally make this change and give themselves total control over BAT 2.0 while leaving the original BAT worthless.

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Re:Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together by Karunamon on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @11:59AM (#22424827)
Brave can release whatever software they want, but they maintain no control over the original token. The token maintains whatever worth the larger market assigns to it, and if there isn't majority buy in with NuBAT, it simply won't be used. Brave being open source, large enough dissatisfaction would result in the browser being forked with the original token in play.
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