Well. It would a while to explain the business and technological fundamentals if you don’t already understand them. Check out their whitepaper (https://basicattentiontoken.org/BasicAttentionTokenWhitePape...) for their long-term vision and truly ask youself if this is implementable as a browser extension.
Browsers need disruption anyway — chrome is increasingly buggy and slow, and I trust “the person who literally invented browsers, javascript, and the modern internet” to write another one.
Okay, fine, that’s slightly exagerrated. A key pioneer of the early web, inventor of Javascript, grandfather of the open web movement, and somebody working diligently on core web intrarstructure for over 20 years. That better?
Creating a browser engine from scratch is no easy task. Knowing this, why not use a quality browser such as Chromium as a base and build on it? Their goal and priority are to change the advertising and monetization of the web, not build another engine that would take years and millions of dollars to make.
Browsers need disruption anyway — chrome is increasingly buggy and slow, and I trust “the person who literally invented browsers, javascript, and the modern internet” to write another one.