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Is there a problem in ethereum because all of the transaction is very slow. It almost take 2-3 hours before receiving the sent tokens. What is the cause of this issue? is this related to the dump price of eth

I'm not really informed about Ethereum but I've seen a lot of threads circulating here discussing the Crypto Kitties DApp (decentralized application) that slowed the network down. It might be still the case or maybe even more DApps got released? The attention in the media for Ethereum also could have been  a cause for the slow network as this also results in more traffic on the network.

The main cause to the slow network is the CryptoKitties DApp, this Dapp is responsible for a bit more than 10 % of all transactions!
 

It's weird to see how one game can almost kill the whole Ethereum blockchain. Almost everyone suffers from these CryptoKitties. My deposit to exchange took more than a day, and I missed the pump because of it.

I pity those who has ethereum coin,the developers are bad pushing that D-app that resulted network problems the worst you cant even transact with any Ethereum Based coins.

there is a lot of thing that are happening now in ethereum hope it may be recover soon maybe we just wait for if this may resolve for.

Seems like you arent informed on the recent updates or happenings here on cryptoworld since people already talking a lot regarding on this issue on slow confirmation on eth network and thats just because of the new game which is cryptokitties which you can actually find lots of threads here regarding on that stuff and the conversations of people towards it. If you can pay up more gwei then it would be more faster but i dont think it would really be worth off.

This is not a new thing actually, the problem is ongoing for several days. There is a pet game called cryptokittens where people buy and sell different cat stickers for crazy money. It blocked the ethereum blockchain.

2-3 hours is perfect if you receive your tokens. Use gwei around 80-120 and they go faster.

And what's funny is that Vitalik Buterin has too much of an ego to admit that his network is begin flooded with virtual kittens:

https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/937628849084309504

It was a mistake to give access to such apps at layer 0, but he will admit it I guess. People holding big sums of money on ETH are a bit crazy. BTC is risky enough and you can still get rich from it.

The congested network is the cause of this issue. The ETH network is currently 100% full and that is why transactions are taking longer than usual to get confirmed. It is required to have atleast 50000 gas limit for the transaction to be confirmed in a couple of hours. Lower gas limits will eventually take a longer time to be confirmed.

As said above, Ethereum network is being flooded as a new virtual token that enables buying virtual kittens is now live on the Ethereum network.

Ethereum network has to process about 9.5TX/sec while bitcoin network has to process about 3.5TX/sec, which makes the Ethereum network run much slower then it should have been running.

I believe that once the hype around the kittens thing is going to be happened, then we are going to see a significent decrease in the amount of transactions on the Ethereum network which will also prevent confirmation delays.

CryptoKitties is a game based on smart contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain, this is what is clogging the network.

yes i noticed that then i heard about this cats or kittens game and it is the problem behind the slow of ethereum which led to the slow of transactions on etherdelta

Yes you are right Ethereum blokchain is pretty much out of service. On Friday I have sent some coins from my wallet to exchange, and only received them this morning. I am not sure whether it is because of the CryptoKittens game or what, but currently the blokchain is not fully operational. 

Ethereum has actually faster and cheaper transactions than bitcoin.

This is even when the network was clogged by kitties. I used was because the network is running fine now and fees are back to normal. Gwei std is back to 20-25 based on ethgasstation.info. Just sent some ETH to one of my wallets and the transaction confirmed and reflected within 3 minutes.

Funny that a small game that has you collecting and breeding cats which you can sell takes up 15-20% of the network.

For operations, you can use other coins like Litecoin. Ethereum is slow network today, but I hope developers will solve this, because CryptoKitties shows Ethereum problem for community.

How can a silly game cause so many problems for everyone? I have a transaction pending for 6 hours. I heard its only clogging up 20% of the network but it feels alot worse.

At this rate I might come out of this coin until things improve. Can anyone recommend how to push through this transaction?

the market use ethereum platform is slowly because there is a trouble error, it happen from few days ago
just waiting for normal and all problem clear i think it better choice than you transaction now with risk you lose the balance

Cryptokitties destroyed the ETH network, but i think its just a matter of time before the situation come back to the normal. There is a huge hype around this game at the moment.

yes, the game captured all the minds...and the whole network in the end...it isn't a pleasant situation

The kitties braked Ethereum network. I'm starting to get answers to my old question.
What is the real cats potential in startups? In 2016 people have already anticipated it
https://twitter.com/iamcrumplecat/status/721026601907978245 (https://twitter.com/iamcrumplecat/status/721026601907978245)
I assure you that this is only the beginning and I also have the appropriate ambitions 8)

By the way, I admit that Vitalik is a secret creator of CryptoKitties and so amusingly testing the ecosystem.
You just look at his T-shirts and bags ;D

It seems that today the network working normally, relying on Ethgasstation.
I hope that the network is stabilizing, because in recent days it has been impossible to work.

Now puppies will come lol... https://hashpuppi.es/
hahahahha

May be they will use ETH network too?

You must rise gwei to 50 minimum
And give higher fee 81000 minimum

Be sure of one thing due to the sucess of Cryptokitties, be sure more games like those one will be coming into the next days, we will get dogs, shipts, houses, who know what else people will make with ethereum blockchain, the only thing thats im sure is this will become expensive to traders wich were using those network before, as bitcoin ethereum got a lot transactions delayed, and looks like there isnt a solution to handle those neither more similiar games.

Cryptokitties destroyed the ETH network, but i think its just a matter of time before the situation come back to the normal. There is a huge hype around this game at the moment.

The amount of transactions increased very rapidly due to Crypto Kitties. You can see for yourself here (https://etherscan.io/txsPending), there are many pending transactions and the gas price for successful transaction is changed dramatically (I used GWEI 0.1 before and now you need something like GWEI 50 to get your transaction verified).

Where do these kitties actually come from?

Ethereum is slow, but its documentation and its development tools are mature enough for programmers to really do something on it.

It's due to "CryptoKitties DApp" which is an online game where users can collect and breed virtual cats ; it uses etherium blockchain , the thing that has led to this slowness .
PS : it becomes one of the most smart contract on the Eth blockchain with more than 4% of the total transaction volume

Are you kidding? ;D
This is an eternal battle.
But judging by the main page, I don't feel a threat to the kitties :)

#OnlyCatsCanReallyChangeTheWorld
#ThisMeansSolvingRealGlobalIssues

yes increase the gas so you can do your transaction normaly.maybr there will be more games that use eth network. it would be good if ethereum able to handle it. there is high expectation and great potential for games world

Thats why it's dumping. The flaw is in the core protocol and not easily fixed if fixable at all.

https://poloniex.com/marginTrading#btc_eth

Nice! I want Dinosaurs TOO!

for me its not worth use big GAS just for send token....
better i wait situation back to normal,or ETH Dev do something about it.
soon or later people will bored with this kitties

It so sad to see that what they made (crytokitties) affects also the ethereum they made. What's with that kitties? why they allow this to happen? I hope they can fix this asap because it is really affecting us.

Cannot be "Fixed" all they can do is mitigate some of the stress it creates. Also there are more to come so get used to it.

https://hashpuppi.es/

ETH is realy faster cryptocurrency of transaction for bitcoin.
I used was because the network is running fine now and fees are back to normal. Gwei std is back to 20-25 based on ethgasstation.info. Just sent some ETH to one of my wallets and the transaction confirmed and reflected within 3 minutes.

Ethereum now is facing troubles with the system and heavy loads that cause in slowing transactions to confirmed. But there is another option is by changing gas limit into higher and it will gives you chances for a faster confirmation. This is what I've did awhile ago..

i think, more virtual pets coming in near future, or maybe an exotic pets are posible to create.
btw, i normally transfer my tokens to exchanges. smooth ang fast. the gwei sets 41 automatically.

so these kitties are the reason for delayed transactions in eth. eth must uprade the system for better transaction. they must have anticipate this kind of problem. it is a do or die situation. if eth didnt resolve this, most of the users may change network.

How's that possible? Doesn't this Dapp have to pay millions for using that amount of gas?

The CryptoKitties DApp also tends to be mined first because there a lot of advises to those who buy these kitties to increase their gas to make sure get theirs. In short, normal gas trades in ethereum will be last in the priority lines because of this, or you just have to compete and increase your gas as well to be mined too.

I haven't tried it first hand since I'm actually just starting to earn my first eth and hopefully earn some btc to, but my friend who is a frequent user of ethereum said that is just normal and somewhat bearable. I think it depends also on the exchanging sites, what he recommended to me was liquid.io and livecoin which I guess is a faster exchanger.

yes, it was recently that game hampered Ethereum network. but I just heard good news from dev Ethereum on 15 December 2017 - 1 January 2017 they will do the upgrade in the system. I do not know whether the news is true or not, but that would be positive news for Ethereum

It is because of cryptokitties that is why ethereum these days is so slow. Even you transfer token from mew it will take time to receive in other party. For you to trade your token more gas is needed to have a transactions, i hope soon ethereum will fast its transactions.

Link or it didn't happen.

Kitties are clogging the pipes.

Two to Three hour transaction time is still reasonably good when you compare it to transaction time of bitcoin. Though for ethereum user that will be like eternity considering the fact that recently before cryptokitties clog up the system, transaction time was less than 5 second! It normal for this to happen once in a while, when th system is clear, there will be a return to nolmacy!

Ethereum is so slow yes but it's safe. You know the Russian goverment gives really big importancy to Ethereum. I think in the near future ETH will get much more bigger. Wait and see.

I'm starting to get pissed with these cryptokitties, all of my transactions are pending as of now especially eth. I hope they can resolve this issue soon because it makes my trading activities slower.

Ethereum has experienced issues since past week particularly in network congestion problem but it's not actually a big deal because it is considered normal due to heavy traffic of transactions were made by users around the world.

Since Bitcoin was pumped to the sky then there's a massive network congestion due massive queue of transactions at the same time so this is really a very serious problem that will take further research on how to speed up the Blockchain speed to accommodate massive transactions and minimize the waiting time from being pending.

I don't think so, because people are using Ethereum network when they dump their Altcoins and convert them into Ethereum or vice versa. And and Ethereum into Bitcoin and vice versa.
Network congestion is a very serious problem to Cryptocurrencies due to Blockchain verification that would eliminate double spending and also eliminating attacks and compromise.

That kitties are one of the reasons why Ethereum is congested? Well, I'm not yet convinced the fact. When Bitcoin was pumped there's a massive transactions queue because people wanted to invest more and the same thing with Ethereum, aside of kitty petting issues Ethereum has experienced massive transactions at the same time so transaction queue will congest the network.

Just don't worry about this, I'm sure it's will be back to normal.
From the last few days ago I've noticed/knowed also, that the ethereum's network was said has experiencing network congestion or like a network interruption.
So I guess of course this is can be the causes of that.

Because of the virtual kitties if I am not mistaken. It got $12million worth sold of virtual kitties. So I assume their network didn't handle the series of
 large transactions that makes their network slow.

the amount that is paid gets paid buy whoever is making the txs

I hope the hype about Pussies will soon lessen and Ethereum Netwrok got back to normal.

If you are not knowing about that and it will better not to spread another crap rumour another person. There will be no hardfork until the next hardfork that already scheduled on Q2 2018.
To continue the metropolis hardfork and ice age will be activated for sure. Even vitalik doesn't mention anything about that.

It became the same as bitcoin is.
You pay more then you are on the first of the line. Before I am just setting it the gas price as 1. This is for shitcoins that I am trading.
Now it wont work anymore. You will need to pay better just so the transaction will be completed. Something like 5 dollars or more. I guess you should set it to 70 or higher.

The game called Cryptokitties has make the transactions too slow and is still causing problems. Thats why I have invested in btc cash and try to make the transaction with it.

 This issue is caused by ethereum network congestion in which an apps called crypto kittens are creating trouble in the ethereum blockchain affecting ethereum and token transactions. In order to be save for this delay and very slow transactions you will just need to maximize gas limit like 300000 to 500000 with a gwei of 70 to 90.

thats ok for me for the exchangers for tokens we get from other bounties so we have the final price in ethereum because I drop the ethereum price for sure the exchangers token to earn, but when the price of ethereum for they also lose the tokens they get in campaign bounties.

The Cryptokitties are being the one that make Ethereum blockchain slow because it uses almost 10% of the blockchains traffic just to breed  Digital cats .

all crypto currency have changed over time. the currencies sometime fall and sometime grow in a short period of time the ETH has good value i the market may it is slow for sometime but this currency has the potential to grow in the market. ETH price reach up to $420 which is high among the other altcoins it is very profitable for the year 2918 we should hold this currency.

Ethereum is not slow, it got slow because of that crypto kittes was going on and the more than hundred thousand transaction pending at that time if wanted to have your transaction fast you just have to increase the gas limit and the gas price.

The ethereum is not weak, game Cryptokitties has make the transactions too slow, in the course of the next time the problem will be solved, which will significantly raise the price of the etherium.

But fluffy kittens are still in demand at the same time >:(

Ethereum is slow due to network congestion, but it will be updated in time and back on track once again.

This is very upsetting that one coin can occupy %10 of network communication. There had to be some limitation.

I've been experiencing this in the past days, before almost all my transactions and withdrawals took only 2-5mins before it reflects to my deposit account, withdrawal account. Now i've been getting the delays also 2-3hrs and it is being a nuisance anymore. I don't know the cause of this i am only thinking the reason is because of congested network like in Blockchain but i hope dev will update soon to fix the problem.

I believe ETH's congestion will get better soon. Estimated V will come up with a solution. Otherwise, we are involved in ICO ERC20 TOKEN no way to accept the transfer.

https://ethgasstation.info/
You can check Gas Price for the fastest transactions here. Now Ethereum Network is not so congested as it was last week.
Today I made transaction with 10gas. It's ok.

Yes evryone tired of this...many trader lose some oportunity because of this and a lots of problems about bounties payment

As others have pointed out just increase your GAS by configuring the settings. Atleast keep it around 32. It worked for me though.

With this single dApp from crytpokitties is the culprit of the network congestion of the Ethereum blockchain and it also indicates that Ethereum can't handle that massive transactions, how much more if there are more something like cryptokitties dApp would come ? can they handle that ? or do they have to upgrade or fix the blockchain, as they already know it would be worst in the future if mass adaption would exist.

These digital cats are the one to blame for this problem that has been coming out in the ethreum network, they have flooded the network which in result is the slow transaction, as long as there are kitties there will be slow down on transaction.

i see you are completely unaware of cryptokitties :D

Yes, me too, I think Cryptokittie is the problem. According to ETH Gas Station the CryptoKitties game accounts for over 10% of network traffic on Ethereum. When the traffic rises, the transaction speed will be slower. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42237162

we just need time to fight this crazy cat game, and in my opinion this popularity will not last long.
wait while vitalik take steps and start updating system.

Its low after correction.
Then the clogging up of the blockchain happened with a few apps being released.
Then Ethereum had the network Congestion.
All these factors played a role in slowing down Ethereum and slowing down the pace of the price.

If you faced this problem with metamask or myetherwallet then at first i want to say that, Please check your gas price low to high 30000 or more.

Cryptokitties are the main reason why there's a very slow network for ethereum these days.

I don't know if there is something that Vitalik do to make these cryptokitties problem solve.

im agree it wont be long. but this game is the pioneer for other game to come out. eth network should be ready for more coming out game that could use blockchain technology and eth network. I believe there will be good price for adaptation of many game using eth network. eth value could be increase so high if they could handle the transaction as good as before and indeed they have to be.

it's his benefit compare w btc)

set your gas high so it willl be prioritized to the next block my transactions are going through  50 gas, this kitty hype are the main reason as everyone of us know that.
This will be resolve soon, they are working now with new upgrades.

yes, that game ruin the lives of many traders. i hope they'll just remove those kitties so we could live a happy trading life. I don't get it why many people play those boring digital cats, i heard one kitten sold for about 10,000 USD.

Ethereum is facing issues with the congested network but the ETH transaction fee is very low when compared to BTC transaction fee.
If the gas limit is set high then the transaction will get confirmed soon and you will receive the coins in your wallet within minutes.
Even if the gas limit is set very high it will not exceed 0.003 eth which is not even 0.0001 BTC . So I don't think it is much of an issue when compared to BTC.

The problem is when the cryptokitties developers was not putting the limited amount for the gwei and gas limit to their transaction. Like what already did by mew developer. When the network traffic will be very high and a lot of the crypto kitties user will try to put the more gwei and gas price. this makes the average transaction fees will be increase. The old transaction will be on the low priority to be validated by the block.

I started to hate bitcoin's slowness basically carried out to ethereum. I was planning to make quick trades and it basically made me kill all my plans. This problem should be solved.

That's the problem if many more traders will feel the same it will reflect to the project itself, I understand that this kitty is bringing some attention
but sacrificing the actual transactions,making more delays will let investors to think twice before using Eth as the base for their transactions better
to think for the solution before more traders jump to another project.

I agree with you, many members of my country are discussing this issue too and they say that ethereum network is experiencing pending transactions due to the many queues of transactions there, may be renewed or further development of the ethereum network.

Not only slow, it is also expensive. Maybe the developer of ETH is planning to change the minimum gas price per transaction now since bitcoin's market value reaches new high at 18,000 USD lately.
But if this is just coding glitch, i hope that it will be fix very soon because my transactions in ETH are almost dead.

Vitalik was working on Raiden which is similar to Lightning Network, but im not sure if it's as good as Lightning Network, or a worse quality workaround. And don't forget the cryptokitties stuff is happening on-chain, ETH can't never get around this problem, it is too complex on-chain, by design, making it a mess when it comes to being conservative on the blockchain size..

It was so slow indeed due to network congestion. Everyone complaining about slow transactions and ICOs participants could not complete transactions. Now its fixed though.

Today I made several payments and they passed very quickly. The network has improved and become faster. This is one of the best crypto currency

we must believe that vitalik are thinking about this issue.
and just wait for what will happen after this there will be some good news from him maybe in 2018.

The increase in the number of transactions in the network is the reason, you need to put high gas price and fee in order for your transaction to be confirmed fast.

He sure is thinking about it, his coin will be blamed by too many traders if he's not going to do something about it. I don't have any insight about that "good news" you are talking about. Can you give some idea on what is it all about? Well out of this slow transactions ETH reaches $633 just now.

It's really funny that Cryptokitties can slow down the Big Blockchain like Ethereum, and Until today it makes sense of this issues and no further action to make it more faster or like before

This slow network shit has killed the exchange EtherDelta. Its practicly impossible to trade there now with these wait times if you want to pay a normal fee. I liked etherdelta, it was a good use of the smart contract, too bad vatilik destroyed the coin.

Ethereum is so slow because of kitties boom, they occupy most of the eth transactions

Cryptokitties are overloading the platform apparently

When ETH network comes back to normal?  Never again ???

Ethereum has traffic in transaction!