The notions of the crossed product and the braided category are discussed within the theory of C∗-algebras. Like in the purely algebraic approach of S. Majid these notions are used to generalize the quantum group theory. We give an example of a braided group. It coincides with the closed subset C = {z : |z| = . . . , q−2, q−1, 1, q, q2, . . . , 0} of the complex plane equipped with the q2braidi...