BATProject states that BRAVE is a a "privacy browser"

However, if you want to withdraw your tokens you have to provide ID to a company called "UPHOLD". This is really serious in terms of privacy. Imagine linking your ID or Passport to sites you visit on the Internet forever and being questioned when you are forty about a silly political site you visited when you were nineteen. Or imagine being blackmailed as a politician because when you were younger you visited porn sites a couple of times without your VPN(digital condom). Could sex blackmail threaten democracy and lead to otherwise competent leaders being threatened and harassed? Even worse imagine having your passport linked to a porn URL you didn't mean to visit! Even though they may not be linking the two right away one seriously wonders what might happen if everybody switches over to this browser just to earn a few cents. Why do they even need ID for transferring a few dollars worth of tokens? Serious criminals and terrorists own their own banks and sometimes countries (or Internet browsers ^^). They are not using crypto or making "suspicious payments over 1 000 dollars" into their mum's bank or Paypal accounts.

Your passport does not belong to you. It is the property of the government and serves as a means of identification when crossing borders or to prove your identity to a police officer. The identification procedure is carried out by other governments who are trusted by your government to handle your sensitive private data. We probably shouldn't be scanning images of our passport and sending them off across the Internet to companies we have barely heard of just to cash out a couple dollars worth of tokens. Do they delete this ID once they have received it? Do they have permission from HM Government to handle digital copies of citizens passports in such a manner? How long do they keep this sensitive information and is it on servers that are connected to the Internet and may be hacked?

Banks and companies (including airlines) are not government organizations and should not be allowed to file away official documents in my opinion. In the case of a loan application or an airline I believe they should be allowed to consult official documents under strict supervision of the holder to make sure they do not make copies of sensitive citizen and government data. The trend towards banks or companies being considered as in any way part of the state is a concern.

Governments need to chill out in regards to small accounts for ordinary users (under 1 000 000 usd) and ID shouldn't be required to hold one. You will have to just hope people are more or less honest when they declare taxes like you have always done in the past. By trussing everybody up like this you will provoke the rise of some non-state international behemoth who will then turn on your state, rip you to bits and create some freak electronic dictatorship where dissenters will be DEMONetized. You have been warned.