In early February, NeuCoin launched a series of consumer applications aiming to offer its users and digital content providers effective methods of incentivizing digital content.
The NeuCoin team, led by the founder of Jango, Dash and DirectRevenue Daniel Kaufman, launched its first official digital currency wallet, introduced the NeuCoin tipping technology through online music streaming platform Jango, and showcased an integration of NeuCoin on a popular multiplayer casual Facebook game called Solitaire Racer.
The successful launch of the three consumer applications led to an explosive growth of the NeuCoin user base. The NeuCoin team announced that the number of NeuCoin users has surpassed the 275,000 mark, which puts NeuCoin on track for acquiring more than 2 million users in 2016.
NeuCoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency developed by a team of designers, game developers, security consultants and legal advisers funded by executives of King, Uber, Jango, Spotify and Hotline. Its developers’ unified vision was to maximize decentralization and enable micropayments, which are typically difficult to settle with existing cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin due to expensive transaction fees.
Jango Radio
Jango Radio, founded by serial entrepreneur Kaufman, is one of the most popular online radio and music streaming platforms that enables users to create and share custom radio stations. In 2007, Jango was the first music streaming platform to introduce a social network technology that allows the platform to match users with listeners who have identical musical preferences. The radio playlist and user matching service led to exponential growth for Jango. A few years after its launch, the platform reached more than 7 million monthly users.
The developers and founders behind Jango integrated the NeuCoin tipping technology onto their platform as a core section of its user interface in late 2015, to introduce a digital currency that mainstream users can embrace and use to […]
