Anonymous
ID: /M5s7Qng
8/6/2025, 5:55:25 AM No.60745398
The Year Was 2030. Eli swiped through his wallet, past dead tokens with names no one remembered—UselessCoin, BitConnect 2.0, MoonFarm. Then he saw it: BAT.
Balance: 500,000 BAT ($0.50)
He laughed. Not the bitter laugh of a man who lost everything, but the tired chuckle of someone who had long stopped caring. A decade ago, he’d been convinced BAT would change the internet. Brave browser would dethrone Google, users would get paid for their attention, and the ad industry would crumble.
None of that happened.
Brave still existed, technically. A few privacy die-hards used it, but most people just accepted the surveillance. The BAT rewards system? A joke. You could earn a few thousand tokens a month—enough to buy absolutely nothing. Exchanges still listed it, but the order books were empty. No one wanted it. No one even remembered why it was supposed to matter.
Eli’s friend, Marco, had once mocked him for holding. "Just sell, man. It’s over." But Eli never bothered. What was the point? The gas fees to move it cost more than the tokens themselves.
He closed his wallet. Somewhere, in a forgotten Discord server or a buried Reddit thread, there were probably still true believers. People waiting for the "real adoption" that would never come.
Eli wasn’t one of them. He swiped the app closed, tossed his phone onto the couch, and went to make coffee.
Outside, the world moved on. BAT didn’t.
Balance: 500,000 BAT ($0.50)
He laughed. Not the bitter laugh of a man who lost everything, but the tired chuckle of someone who had long stopped caring. A decade ago, he’d been convinced BAT would change the internet. Brave browser would dethrone Google, users would get paid for their attention, and the ad industry would crumble.
None of that happened.
Brave still existed, technically. A few privacy die-hards used it, but most people just accepted the surveillance. The BAT rewards system? A joke. You could earn a few thousand tokens a month—enough to buy absolutely nothing. Exchanges still listed it, but the order books were empty. No one wanted it. No one even remembered why it was supposed to matter.
Eli’s friend, Marco, had once mocked him for holding. "Just sell, man. It’s over." But Eli never bothered. What was the point? The gas fees to move it cost more than the tokens themselves.
He closed his wallet. Somewhere, in a forgotten Discord server or a buried Reddit thread, there were probably still true believers. People waiting for the "real adoption" that would never come.
Eli wasn’t one of them. He swiped the app closed, tossed his phone onto the couch, and went to make coffee.
Outside, the world moved on. BAT didn’t.
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