I never did try the Brave browser because i was already on Linux, and already not seeing adverts.

Sandman was promoting his Brave affiliate link, and was so successful, that something like ¼ of the new Brave users were signing up through him (i could be wrong on the number, but it was sizeable) and Brave stopped paying him thinking it was a scam. And then they stopped paying him because there was a "ceiling" in the fine print.

Over that kefuffel he sold out of BAT.

And, to answer the other question, people are just too stressed out to look into this new-fangled, magical internet money. They have enough thinking about surviving. They don't want anything new. They don't want anything risky.

But, if someone made a lottery-coin and sold it at all the alcohol-tabacco shops, we could get a lot of people onboard.

Just think, when bitcoin was around $1000 if there were machines right next to the lottery ticket machines. A lot of people would be rich now.

How much does the "average" person spend on the lottery?