The ‘Facebook of Latin America' Taringa! Just Paid $76,000 in Bitcoin to its Users
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The ‘Facebook of Latin America' Taringa! Just Paid $76,000 in Bitcoin to its Users

THELOGICALINDIAN - Just over six months afterwards the barrage of its Creadores affairs Latin Americas better amusing arrangement Taringa has broadcast 195 BTC or 76000 USD to its top agreeable creating users in what may be one of the best usecases for the cryptocurrency to date

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‘An important incentive’

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The top contributor has accustomed over $2,000 USD in bitcoin aloof six ages afterwards the barrage of the “Creadores” affairs on Taringa!, whose 75 actor different users puts it additional alone to Facebook in Latin America. The affairs has already admiring 15,478 users, according to Head of PR and Communication at Taringa!, Agustina Fourquet. Moreover, she addendum that accommodating users accept added their agreeable assembly by 30%.

Fourquet told Bitcoin.com:

Taringa! Creadores electronically rewards users, who actualize the best agreeable on the armpit by application a acquirement allotment affairs area ad acquirement is broadcast amid the users. The bill that makes this new archetypal accessible is Bitcoin, afterward the partnership accord active with Palo Alto-based Bitcoin wallet account provider Xapo aback in April 2015, which some affirmation is the better accomplishing of Bitcoin to date in agreement of user exposure.

First 5 Users Earning Bitcoin in Taringa!

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1st: Bernardino is a Mexican psychologist, teacher, and is in the action of accepting a alum diploma. He has been a affiliate of Taringa! back 2012 beneath the appellation @Beriku and publishes abnormal images to annoyance users’ curiosities. Bernardino becoming over $2,000 USD from the program.

2nd: Juan Lopez has been an Argentine Taringa! user back 2005. He has the appellation @juanjuju and has already accustomed 3,523,666 $.25 (over $1,300 USD). The aboriginal column with which he started earning $.25 was his own account of 19 beauteous photos. Besides bitcoin, he additionally accustomed 120 favorites, 130 comments and over 8,000 credibility aural the community.

3rd: Gonzalo Acosta is Uruguayan, works for Unicef and became a Taringa! user in October 2014 with the appellation @elpichiario. So far, he has becoming 522,940 $.25 or about $197 USD. The aboriginal column with which he accustomed $.25 was a accumulating of belief and images of bodies who helped to accomplish the aftermost ambition of dying patients.

4th: Rodrigo Loyola, an Argentine who lives in Spain, has been a affiliate of Taringa! back 2012 beneath the appellation @SoyDarkDamBanneD. As a circadian poster, he writes about cars and gamers. Back he abutting Taringa! Creators he has becoming 2,788,704 $.25 ($1,053 USD). The aboriginal column with which he accustomed $.25 in Taringa! was a tutorial titled, “Can your PC survive after antivirus?”

5th: Juanjo Ortiz is a Spaniard and a amorous World War II historian. He’s been a Taringa! user back 2010 with the appellation @grisom_es and mainly uses the armpit to allotment his notes, analysis and accessories about the war, which he additionally writes for his blog. He accustomed his aboriginal $.25 for his post: “Berghof, Hitler’s home in Berchtesgaden,” with which he becoming 660,729 $.25 ($250 USD).

Social ‘Bits’

TaringaIn addition, Taringa! has additionally launched addition affairs that’s accessible to all of the platform’s users alleged Bits. This belvedere translates anniversary point accustomed by a column in Taringa!, automatically converting it to a bit (a atom of a bitcoin) that’s again deposited into a Xapo account.

“Bits […] is a affairs that added the achievability of Bitcoin admission to all of the users on the site,” explains Fourquet. “Each point that a user receives in Taringa! can be transferred to a bit and deposited into the user’s wallet. The credibility are accepted to the users on the armpit who actualize posts advised admired and anniversary user can accord a best of 10 credibility on anniversary post, daily.”

Taringa!, however, is by no agency the aboriginal to apparatus cryptocurrency for accumulation administration and incentivizing online agreeable creators. Services such as Obits, Peertracks, Cleartracks and others are paving the way for a new paradigm, area internet-friendly cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are used to alteration value, circumventing abounding of the intermediaries and red band associated with application authorization currencies, enabling creators to get paid directly.

Bitcoin.com batten in detail with Agustina Fourquet to accretion added acumen on how bitcoin is transforming the way online agreeable is incentivized, broadcast and compensated.

 

Bitcoin.com (BC): How does Bitcoin absolutely assignment on the Taringa! platform?

Agustina Fourquet (AF): The user charge aboriginal be registered in the affairs Taringa! Creators, which for now are actuality beatific by clandestine invitations. But, little by little it will accessible to all creators of armpit content. Then, the column charge canyon armpit balance filters and account all rules appropriate by the community. The capital indicator that the agreeable is admired is both the akin of assurance and how it has been accustomed by the community.

For example, assurance is abstinent by the bulk of column views, comments and shares on Taringa! and in added amusing networks, as able-bodied as the annual accustomed by added users from the program. Application this data, Taringa! applies a acquirement allotment scheme, through which it shares a allocation of the advertizing acquirement generated by that commodity and makes the acquittal in Bitcoins, application a wallet that every user charge accessible in Xapo. Users accessible a Xapo’s Bitcoin wallet account, area Taringa! deposits the bits. Later, Bitcoins can be acclimated for whatever they want. They can save them, alteration them to others, or use them to pay for services, which acquire this acquittal currency.

BC: How did the after-effects so far analyze to your expectations?

AF: We are actual annoyed with this aboriginal date area the affairs has been aperture gradually to 15,000 users on the armpit and we apperceive that it has a lot added potential. It is abating for us to accept been able to apprehend this activity that we had been cerebration about for a while as we were assuredly accustomed the altitude to move it forward.

BC: What are your projections for 2024 and beyond?

AF: Throughout 2024 the activity is activity to abide and there are still abounding bitcoins larboard to accord out. This implies a change in the Taringa! archetypal because it is the aboriginal time the acquirement allotment arrangement has been implemented. Additionally to actuality fair for the users who actualize content, it is additionally important in adjustment to anticipate what the belvedere will be like over the continued term. So, throughout 2024 the belvedere will accumulate accretion the abundance of users.

BC: What has the acknowledgment been like from users?

AF: Among some of the absolute acknowledgment from users, on one duke there is the achievability to admission a basic bill that could not be accessed in any added way. Above and above the currency, abounding bodies are beholden and anticipate that it’s fair of Taringa! to accolade them for the agreeable which they generated for chargeless up until now. Abounding users created posts committed to what they plan to buy with the bitcoins. This included items like corpuscle phones, casework such as advantageous for cable and added bills, and video amateur for PlayStation.

Among some of the abrogating acknowledgment is that Bitcoin is not a currency, which has actual abundant assimilation throughout Latin America. Although some businesses acquire them as a anatomy of payment, it’s not yet actual boundless and some accept bidding their admiration for the use of a altered currency. Also, there are users who accept that bitcoin encourages bodies to actualize posts, but not necessarily of bigger quality.

BC: Do Taringa! advisers get paid or use Bitcoin?

AF: No, Bitcoins are alone acclimated for the Creadores affairs and for users. It is not acclimated as a way to accolade our employees.

BC:  Are there any affairs to added accommodate Bitcoin, blockchain technology or altcoins?

AF: No, for the moment the abstraction is to abide application Bitcoin.

What do you anticipate of Taringa! and their use-case for bitcoin? Will it accommodate how online agreeable is created? Share your thoughts and animadversion below!

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