Jimmy Donaldson, aka "MrBeast," a prominent YouTuber boasting fifty.2 meg subscribers and 8.five billion full views, now owns a verified Brave browser account — potentially exposing some of his enormous audience to virtual currency.

Donaldson is not new to crypto and is believed to have made a considerable corporeality of money via cryptocurrency investments. The star previously hosted videos discussing crypto before his channel exploded in popularity and he reportedly purchased a $100,000 motorcar using his crypto profits. However, his account was later on purged of all content relating to virtual currency.

MrBeast also spoke on Keemstar'south podcast most how he almost lost his BTC due to a house interruption-in, but managed to motility the funds to a new wallet.

With Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies surging in price, the famous YouTuber appears to be making a render to crypto, by condign a verified Brave browser publisher. This will allow viewers to tip his aqueduct with BAT tokens — the native Dauntless browser crypto.

Brave, founded by JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, rose in popularity over the last ii years — attracting almost i million publishers and more 24 million agile monthly users. The browser currently has 528,756 YouTube, 126,740 Twitter, and 69,000 website and Twitch publishers.

The addition of MrBeast to Brave'due south growing list of publishers has some in the community predicting large price increases for the BAT token. According to Coingecko, BAT tokens are currently trading for $0.254 each, up ix.5% over the past 24 hours.

MrBeast is far from the outset prominent YouTuber to comprehend crypto. In 2019, PewDiePie, who once held the virtually subscribed channel with more 100 million subscribers, began hosting his streams on the blockchain video platform Dlive. Withal, on May four, 2020, YouTube signed an exclusive deal with him, preventing him from continuing to employ Dlive.