At 0 hours 0 minutes on January 1, 2024, the word ‘geek’ took on a new meaning: tens of thousands of people around the world, to the accompaniment of New Year’s fireworks, were tapping on a coin in their phone app.
The Notcoin project, which featured this coin, revolutionized mobile gaming, gathering an audience of 35 million players and pioneering a new direction in Telegram web apps: games that offer rewards for tapping. Rumor has it that Notcoin could be a little side project of Pavel Durov, the person who started Telegram.
The TONFNOT community began to form as users of the analytic bot notcoin_core_stat_bot, which attracted 15,000 users in its first two weeks. Another 10,000 joined the team that united to tackle challenges in Notcoin. Then, this happened:
Notcoin posted a developer job to create a fake notcoin. The meme enthusiasts in TONFNOT squad couldn’t resist trolling and minted a joke token, FNOT, or fake notcoin. As history lessons will someday teach, from this moment, TONFNOT emerged as a community with its contributors and ideologists. At some point, someone in the community chat started rolling dice. Instead of blocking the bold spammer, the community decided to create a web app with a user-friendly interface for dice rolling and added the existing FNOT as an internal token for settlements.
The rules are as follows: players throw dice, scoring a certain number of points, and with each throw, they contribute 100 FNOT to the round’s bank. At the end of the round, which occurs hourly, the total bank is divided among players proportionally to the points each scored. Today, 204 thousand people play Dice Game, 78 thousand people are TG followers in
The community collectively decides further steps, which features to add and write code for the project, the community creates content, and the community invests money into the token. What started as a Notcoin based joke quickly grew beyond its original idea and turned into its own project.
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I spent so many time to register, then confirm email… so boring aaa