Like predicted:
NeuCoin Project update: Foundation to cease supporting NeuCoin services, destroy its remaining coins and dissolve itselfNearly 3 years after the NeuCoin Project was born, the founding team and the NeuCoin Growth Foundation have concluded that the Projects plan to create a leading consumer-driven digital currency based on the premise of distributing tokens to all participants that help drive growth and adoption -- consumers, service providers, distribution partners, miners, developers, etc -- has proven unfeasible, at least with the current team, structure and resources. (...)
http://forum.neucoin.org/t/neucoin-project-update-foundation-to-cease-supporting-neucoin-services-destroy-its-remaining-coins-and-dissolve-itself/2770 Edit: Kind of interesting/revealing is that not even such a disaster-update leads to a higher volume than currently 0.23833293 BTC on Bittrex.
This could turn out to be the best thing to happen to NeuCoin in quite a while.
The premine compared to the initial coins sold was insane, since I imagine that the premine was working in competition with others trying to mine or stake.
They do seem to be "dissolving" quite fairly though.
NeuCoin can join the ranks of many other decentralized coins out there now.
Good luck to all.