I think to have coins to distribute to the new-to-crypto people. Yes, that means very high inflation. It is one way of getting participation from that group. Hopefully, for those of us holding neucoins, there will be more deals in the future. I don't look at what exists now as all there will every be.
I understand the idea behind in general. The problem I see, and that's also the reason why I don't think that Neucoin is legit, is this:
They've started with a total supply of 3 billion and they've sold 100 Mio to the public. That's just 3.3% of the total supply. They've made 4,012 BTC with that 100 Mio which means: 0.00004 per Neucoin which was about 0.018 Dollar at that time (end of April).
That means, that they somehow believed, the total supply would be worth more than 50 Mio Dollar while just the three foundations were sitting on 2.4 billion = 43 Mio Dollar in Neucoin!
The thing about this is: There are just to possibilities.
1. They really believed in the ICO-price which would mean that they believed, Neucoin would be worth more than 50 Mio Dollar
2. They did not believe that Neucoin is worth so much, but maybe "one day in the future"... which would mean, that everybody who bought into the ICO bought to a future price, while it was very unlikely that this future would ever come.
To be more precise: If they really believed Neucoin would be worth 50 Mio and the three foundations should be worth > 40 Mio, that's a totally hubris. And if they did not believe that, it's kind of fraud to sell at those prices. It doesn't make any other sense.
Plus: It never was just about the distribution of those Coins they hold. They also stake, and they stake that much each and every day that it's totally impossible to distribute it. I mean, since it went live the market had an inflation of more than just 100%! In not even 6 months! What the hell did they believe how it would be possible to get that much new money into the market just to hold the ICO-price? It's simply impossible. The staking of just 1 day would crash the market to nearly 0 Dollar per Neucoin. That's the reality and that was the reality for every day since launch.
The whole concept is stupid, or it's fraud. I believe the truth is somewhere in the middle. A mix of greed and a totally lack of knowledge and hubris and ignorance of simplest economic laws.
And if you think back to April, if you think about it that way, you would stay away from buying into the ICO. You would be totally sure that the price is way too high. And you would ask yourself if it's just naive to sell at those prices or if it's fraud. And I've said that months before the ICO. It was predictable.
And that's the next problem: Those who thought about it did not buy! Only those who were unexperienced, who did not know enough about Crypto, who believed in the hype and promises around, bought into the ICO. And if a project needs the stupidity of the public to get traction... it's not worth a single satoshi.
And I don't mean that disrespectful to those who bought into it. I've made some bad decisions in Crypto as well. In 2014 I bought into two stupid Scams and lost some money. I see that as education-money... you lose but you learn. And what I've learned is to focus on the facts, on how the team acts, how they communicate, if they are able to reply on tough questions in all aspects and so on. The Neucoin-Team never showed qualities besides some talent to blind some people.
And what I still believe is: Everybody regrets this, also the team. I believe that nobody really made money with this because I'm sure that the ICO was mostly self-buying (nearly all of the 100 Mio Coins were in the top 100 in the early days after launch and before they came up with the official explorer).
Jango in essence is a complete economy. neu gives users coins. users can tip performers if they like their music. performers can buy more plays on jango with those coins. users and performers can get coins out of jango to invest/stake or trade on bittrex for btc. I don't think what you say is invalid, but I don't expect them to accomplish everything at once.
First: Of course, Jango can be part of an economy. For it's own it's not an economy. And the problem is: Think about what would happen if the Neucoins on Jango would leave it to Bittrex. With other words: The supply on Jango shouldn't leave Jango because otherwise it would hurt the price. If I would be a musician there and let's say everybody loves me and all the 200,000 "Users" send me some Neucoins I would crash the market. And I don't say that Jango is a bad idea. It's the same problem I've mention again and again: The supply doesn't fit in any way to reality. The price reflects that and it's still too high.
Second: It's right not to expect that everything will be accomplished at once. But then again: Why start with a supply that would be worth over 50 Mio Dollar and monster-inflation and just 3.3% on the market while 97% sitting in the back, staking, and buying a project that is totally overvalued for years. It's as if you would give them a loan. You say: "Okay, I know it's not worth that much now but maybe in 2 or 3 years, so I hope you will deliver. Please take my money and make decisions I would agree with!". In fact that's what every Investor said who bought into the ICO. And if you take a look on the process since the ICO: Did they deliver? What I see is that they don't even really communicate! They don't do just the basic-work. They took the money and the biggest decisions they've made is to switch to full PoS (who is staking?) and to cut the total supply to increase the value (who wants to sell billions of Coins?).
And if we think about the future: The problem stays the same. Everybody who thinks about buying this but not impulsive but doing some research and analysis will still see a monster-premine and a monster-inflation. He doesn't see much communication, more arrogance and ignorance. It's very likely that if the price should go up 30% they will sell into it, so it hasn't much chance to rise. It's also very likely that they will run out of money (maybe they are already out of money) so the risk is very high that they will abandon the project. And I believe: It's already abandoned. Not totally, but if I ask myself if there is a team constantly working on this every day... nope. I don't believe that.