Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube

Yeah this isn't going to fly with Youtube itself, they're not going to host ad-free videos so that a 3rd party can take their nontrivial portion of the ad revenue.

Schemes like this are nice, but don't forget who pays for hosting, serving and promoting the content.

I think you might be misunderstanding how it works. Its essentially Patreon. Will it work? Who knows. Can youtube stop it from happening? Probably not any more than they can stop Patreon.

I'm sure YT can't (and probably wouldn't particularly want to) stop the monetization scheme, but the ad-blocking is going to interfere with the main-line business model that gets content creators paid, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's push-back on that (probably in the form of client-server verification the ad has been seen that leads to a good old-fashioned measure / countermeasure arms race to ensure the ads are served if the video is served---after all, how do you snip out the ads if they're baked into the video itself, for starters?).