The ‘Facebook of Latin America’ Taringa! Just Paid $76,000 in Bitcoin to its Users
Just over six months after the launch of its Creadores program, Latin America’s biggest social network Taringa! has distributed 195 BTC — or $76,000 USD — to its top content creating users in what may be one of the best use-cases for the cryptocurrency to date. The top contributor has received over $2,000 USD in bitcoin just six month after the launch of....
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The rapidly growing Latin American social network Taringa! will start paying its content-providing members in bitcoin, offering a service that could boost Bitcoin adoption in the region, The Wall Street Journal reports. With its 75 million users mostly located in Spanish-speaking Latin America, Taringa! (the exclamation mark is part of the name) is the second-most-popular social network after Facebook and one of the main destinations in the Latin American Web. The social network, whose slogan is "Collective Intelligence," is a hybrid of Facebook and Reddit, offering a crowdsourced social....
Maybe you haven't heard of Taringa! but that's about to change. Think of Taringa! as a combination of Facebook and Reddit for Latin America. Based in Argentina, Taringa! claims a unique user base of 75 million, second only to Facebook itself in the region among social networks. And they have caught the bitcoin bug, with the help of Xapo, the California-based Bitcoin wallet and service provider. Taringa! sees the economic value in Bitcoin. Turinga! claims 75 Million Unique users worldwide, service Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Peru and the U. S. Bitcoin's innovations solve a very....
Latin American Social Networking Giant Taringa! has started Taringa! Creadores a revenue sharing program to start paying its users bitcoin for their content contributions. Taringa! is a social networking platform that enables people around the world to create and share information, content and experiences. Taringa! is free, democratic and open, giving users the ability to express themselves without intermediaries or censorship. With its 75 million unique visitors and a registered user base of 27 million people, T! is only second to Facebook in Latin American traffic. This is big news.....
Taringa!, Argentina’s largest social network, has seen an average increase of 40% in content creation since the integration of bitcoin last month. On April 21, Taringa! launched an initiative called Taringa! Creadores, which enables users worldwide to receive the payments for ad revenues and incentives in bitcoin. Within days of its launch, Taringa! received thousands of requests from existing users. As PR manager Agustina Fourquet told CoinTelegraph on April 23: Similar to YouTube, incentives are based on the “social value” of user-generated content. Users also have the ability to tip....
Facebook rival in Latin America, Taringa!, announced that it would be offering bitcoin payments in exchange for content to be posted on the social media platform. The social network has roughly 75 million active users and is expanding its market reach in the region. This project combines an ad revenue-sharing model similar to that of YouTube and its owners decided to give incentives to those who share content. The system was developed in partnership with Xapo, a Palo Alto, California-based bitcoin wallet and custodial service provider. Bitcoin Payments for Posts. According to Taringa!....