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Ethereum Network Crashing and now leading to pending and long time confirmation. Can this lead to Ethereum fall?

No I don't consider that as crashing, the network is just congested but instead consider this as a hiccup because of ETH and ETH tokens continuous growth. There's nothing to worry as they are always on top of their game and fixing this kind of issues. There's also an announcement made by Richie for ETH tickets related in Bittrex.

Ethereum price already fall and find a support, but ethereum platform will never failed,,
because ethereum is a fenomenal project with many excess

Not now! But in the future this might led to Ethereum network's failure. Just imagine there are 10 more DAPPs introduced on the network and it congestes the entire ETH network with long transactions confirmations time. They have to look for alternative solutions to the main chain soon as it will solve this problem.

All because of those stupid cryptokittens or whatever they are.

This sounds right-plus the network needed to see a test before an upgrade (which might come as a critical upgrade if too many kitties are sold).

It shows a weakness in the system, but hopefully they find a way to handle the Dapps better so it doesn't affect other transactions.
Cryptokitties will only spark a trend of spin-offs and it could get pretty bad.

Got a bad move today while in a vacation. I just know that Ethereum are having network problems since a day or two. Transferred some coins few hours ago and I can't even see the transaction details.

Ethereum network congestion has happened many times in the past too. It will go away
in next few days by itself or the devs will do a fix. 

Yes, cryptocoin network congestion happened from time to time in the past, especially during ICO or period with high volume transactions. Bitcoin has similar problem. Scaling is a hot topic for all cryptocoins network.

ADA / Cardano solves all of the issues that BTC and ETH are having.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja9D0kpksxw&t=9s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja9D0kpksxw&t=9s)

Can you imagine if people gave up on early internet tech when it 'crashed' or had issues.

Or "World of Warcraft was laggy today.  Guess this is the end."

:P

I for one look forward to new challenges - it is what drives evolution.

I heard they released a game called crypto kitties where you can buy kitties and breed them with the cost of your ethereum,like a farmville game where you can farm ethereum coins.

There are quite a few much smarter minds than my own working on these scalabillity issues and i have full confidence that it will all be sorted out in the near future. HODL

seriously though.... screw the kitties :P

I’m still holding on it and will always believe that it can go near at bitcoin price sooner.

well it is quite unfortunate that most people are seeing the action going on Ethereum as crash. for me Ethereum just see it as a minor, problem, which they will easily resolve as they have also do. so it should not be consider as crash.

Yesterday sending token etherum was super fast.

Well, it's already up to the ether to get how he went into growth. But this is temporarily stabilized, this is even a good sign of the demand for it is growing.

I don't think it is crashing although the network is just clogged up, and this happened before with bitcoin too and I don't see bitcoin crashing anytime soon. Some people who have ethereum based tokens most likely converted or sold their coins to ethereum all at once.

I have done some transaction of my holding tokens to exchange its really doing good currently so i wanted to sell but even after few hours there is no transaction confirmation . Its am facing after long time in ethereum network .Recently i was using ethereum for most of my payment transaction now seems to be worse than bitcoin.

Ethereum network is currently clogged, the ascent of ICOs are causing the ATH txns and some game (Eth kittens or something) have hijacked the network increasing txns more.

Unless the devs can come up with solutions, we will be experiencing this slowdown for some time.

It's just the network congestion is too much but still my transactions are going through in a timely manner. It has happened earlier as well but this time due to too many ICOs, the transaction log has increased. My TX got confirmed in less than 15 minutes with 0.000470337 Ether as fee which is still normal compared to others paying $1+ fee for getting faster confirmations. Today again my TX got confirmed in 10 minutes.

I also noticed the slow transaction yesterday when I transferred ETH and it took like 10 mins to confirm. I learnt the cause of the congestion was the crypto kitties on ethereum network.

I haven't heard about Ethereum's crashing on my Cryptocurrency news feeds but I think if this is true then developers are on their way to resolve this issue.

This problem was started when they released the game called crypto kitties where you can farm ethereum by breeding kitties.

True. I just don't think Ethereum will simply fall because of this. Damn, there were a lot worse than these and yet they recovered it well and continue to rise.

It's so frustrating, I can't even use etherdelta with 20gwei

I don't think so bro, it's just a limited problem. Mybe they are working to fix it or they are upgrading the system of ethereum. And i am still waiting for my withdrwal money from last day, because of ethereum.

you are seeing these problems because Ethereum has a lot of issues and bugs and it can simply go down like this. it has happened before multiple times. each time it was as long as a week before going back to normal but it will get worse as it grows. which is partly due to its scaling issue.

some people think just because some altcoin has faster blocks and seemingly fast transactions, it is a good thing but they miss all the long term downsides such as what you are experiencing here.

it won't fall now because the issues are not yet serious and also because the whale manipulators still want their profit out of this coin and they won't let it burn that easily. but it is a doomed project that will fail miserably in the end. and there is no stopping that.

The problem is that the activity around CryptoKitties – an ethereum-based app that uses tokens to represent digital cats that can be traded, exchanged or bred to create more e-pets – has effectively clogged up the blockchain.
As a result, users - including those trying to participate in token sales via the ethereum network – are stuck with longer wait times given the plethora of transactions associated with the CryptoKitties app.

I5 Minute is like 10years on Ethereum Network! Ethereum usually confirm in less than 10sec. This is an attack on the Network

As a newbie to cryptocurrency this really made me worry since I've got some eth stored in an exchange sites and seems that I cannot withdraw them and only seeing a lot of pending transactions. This never happened to me before so I got worried. I hope this will be settled soon.

this wil rise wholw december

i did a ETH transfer from MEW wallet to another MEW and it took less than 5 minutes. around 21000 gas.

The transactions is getting longer because of the game crypto kitties they have released,maybe in the future ethereum will crash.

I also did some transactions few hours ago and it went fine. I heard though that the new game called crypto-kittens being the first game on the blockchain technology and on Ethereum platform caused the whole congestion. I really do not know how true that is, but a lot of work still need to be done by Ethereum devs.

Two articles show that CryptoKitties are clogging up the entire Blockchain network.

Read below for more info:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42237162
and
https://www.coindesk.com/ethereums-cryptokitties-blockchain-deluge-sparks-ico-delay/

Is it due to the Crypto Kitty stuff?

I've heard it is causing bloating issues.

Invasion of the CryptoKitties is happening. It happened before with Pokemon.

how deep will the price of ETH decrease due to these issues? I think to sell it now. Amazing world of cryptocurrency.

It's still better than to wait for 10 hours in case of BTC. Earlier it used to take like 1 minute and now 10 minutes to be sent from exchanges. Total time including the withdrawal and deposit is 10 minutes which is pretty fine looking at some transactions here taking 40+ minutes. That's the worse case scenario.

Not crashing. Because of the game that happended.
These type of conjessions happended in the past. They will be fixed. No worries. Eth network was the king and will be the king. Not crashed

Just increase your gas price than it will get through, but yes it is quite congested right now. Every crypto is struggling to get better scaling solution which is quite hard to implement because of decentralization and debate around block size.

If you are trading some tokens in Etherdelta than don't forget to increase its default gas price.

To sell I believe that this is a panic move. Why sell just because of some network issue? They will trouble shoot the problem and fix it.
No need to sell right now i think.

I dont think they will crash, they are just congested on request but hold it up mate. I hold they can fix it asap

Seriously, I essentially said the same thing and my comment gets deleted.  The moderators of this site are utter morons!

indeed things that happen at the depot / wd it is often a very long delay and this is indeed reasonable and can enter but in a long time.

etherium has many advantages. I am sure that all problems will be solved as soon as possible. because I just found the problem of slow transaction confirmation

I did increase gas price from 1 gwei to 20 and it didn't work !!

Of course no, it just had little problem with the transaction and block, and maybe they are performing a maintenance service in order to make the transaction to be faster. the problem also happend because there are so much kinds of token that will be entering to ETH platform, but absolutely that's not a crash at all.

Blame the kittens, although this is a good thing every huge network needs to be constantly stress tested.

I am getting the error transaction hash not found after 10 hours ...is it issue of Network or something wrong with my transaction?

You might not believe but cats are behind this, yes literally cats! A new ETH/DApp called Cryptokitties is causing a huge congestion in ETH network. The only 2 solutions to this is either close Cryptokitties or scale up ETH blockchain, by implementing the long awaited upgrades like POS. The first option although seems easier one, but it is also the worst one in long terms. If we ban Daps just because they have become hugely viral, then it won't be good for ETH's future. Hope Vitalik is doing something regarding the current network congestion.

It all depends on what kind of wallet you use. I have no problems with the network, and my friend has not been confirmed transactions for two days. I think that the new ICO project with cats is to blame for everything

Man. I cannot even express how much i am freaking tired of all these bloody crashing coin topics. Even on bitcoin section, lots of topics about crash are popping up. You know what op, ethereum isn't that easy to kill. It had survived a lot of trials and became better after each one. And i highly doubt that this will be enough to kill ethereum.

Crazy that one browser based cat game can bring Ethereum to its knees.

I guess that kills my idea of using Ethereum for a phone app I had planned.

Many coins have low transaction rate capabilities it seems, Dash boasts high rate but you cant insert custom information into TX for games etc.

There is too much traffic on the blockchain. It became just like bitcoin.
Cmon, this aint new to us. We can somehow relate to this and this will also end in a good conclusion.
I just hope they are making steps into how they will make it better.
Thanks to their lower fees this happened.

In my opinion, Ethereum is very close to Bitcoin in the ranking and it is not possible that something would spoil such a strong position of this coin. In my opinion, it is unrivaled and nothing is currently able to spoil it.

CryptoKitties killed my crypto hobby business >:(
MyEtherWallet and EtherDelta have been dead for me 2 days.
ETH lost in CyperSpace with some other alt coins.

Killing the whole network is actually making the whole network useless or end of the network. Actually that isn't happening right now. The whole network is congested by small transactions from crypto kitties game. The best solution for this problem is to run the game on an ETH sidechain if it supports else there same problem continues.

cryptokitties are creating the problem to the Ethereum network i had a transaction on etherdelta yesterday and i got i cleared today. This game is causing a lot of trouble for the ethereum network and i thought every ico should use raiden network to get rid from this trouble as it solve  scalability problem of ethereum network.

All because of those stupid cryptokittens or whatever they are.  :o :o :o

Then buy and hodl is best way to invest have a 3-5 year time frame you will do much better investing than day trading in my opinion. I've never seen it this low. Personally, love to catch more ETH that time.

I never thought that ONE project of ICO could cause problems for such a strong coin as an ETH. But now I understand that this is possible. Now, the developers of ETH must solve this problem in the shortest possible time

I really like the ERC20 technology, just that it is on the rise. It will soon reach the limit in the near future  :D

Being congested (somewhat) does not change one simple fact:
 Ethereum network alone processes more  transactions than the whole remaining crypto ecosystem summed up right now! I'm not talking about the capability but the actual transactions in practice.  ;)

just another fud, this will give us perfect buy opportunities.

ethereum network is affected by the CryptoKitties now , you can put more gas in your trade for

a more quickly transaction , the problem will be solve just waitting.

this is no longer patience with many users, since the etherium is much faster than the time of the transaction, rather than Bitcoin. Of course, if you increase the amount of gas, the speed will increase unambiguously.

Cats everywhere!

No wonder the Blockchain is clogging up and the Ethereum Network is not moving.

It has been a crazy few days honestly, and that shows some concerns. The reason why today, people still prefer just leaving their funds in bitcoin rather than in some of these other cryptos os because they have not really experienced so much that can really make the devs to see that there is still a lot of work to do.

It might be temporary but the truth is people tend to forget the number of years Bitcoin have been in existence to correct some anomalies. Eth is just starting and the devs really still have some huge works to do on the network.

How will we even call a long time confirmation a crash ? It is normal to have congestion on a network and that goes for those who think Ethereum network is faster and cannot get congested which makes it better than bitcoin. Just the ordinary crypto-kittens have proved such people wrong now. However, it cannot lead to ETH fall, but maybe they will have to do something about an upgrade soon.

There is no one reason to start panic. No it is not crashing. Yes, ETH is temporary down, but it will start rising again in a day or two. The platform is great, and it is being constantly developed and improved. Nothing bad will happen to it.

I think, ethereum networks service updating.Because I see if I increase gas limit then I see transaction is run :D

You're right the word useless is overdoing it. But it is having it's necessary effects, and for poor or cheap people I bet they are find the eth network pretty useless right now.

I heard you will need to set the gas price at 61 GWEI. That is a hell of a lot of price for an Ethereum transaction. $5-6 for one transaction and when in etherdelta you will be doing three transactions. Deposit, Withdrawal and transfer, damn thats a lot of money to be spent for just one trade.
This is not good, they are even expensive than doing it with bitcoin.
I hope they can fix this right away.

set the 61 GWEI is very expensive, it is better to hold the coin first when the network is normal and stable you can sell it at a normal price GWEI and not harm.

CryptoKitties are creating TXs in ETH-network, so it`s busy. If you want to send TX now, you need set 40+ gwei gas price and large gas limit. But I advise you wait.

Ethereum Network is not crashing. It just delayed because there so many transactions running in the same time and it got stuck. It happened also because so many people do the transaction but only with minimum or little gas price/gas needed. It takes time if we used little gas and makes the system needs some times to ethereum chain solved. That's what i thought about it. Not chrasing just delayed.

Yes, I have encountered this problem in the past few days. Transactions seem to be difficult to verify; some transactions require more than two days to get verified. However, I do not think this will make the ethereum platform crash,there isn't clear evidence for such a conclusion, probably due to speed and quality issues during the transaction. I believe it will soon be resolved satisfactorily

Ethereum network isn't crashing and there is no attack, but increased network traffic.
And it showes Ethereum needs further improvement.
I think Ethereum get it, but when? nobody knows exactly - maybe when  it switch to pos, or maybe another solution will be found?

What has happened? has Ethereum Network recovered? are the Ethereum project working to improve the network? I'm very surprised about that, oooooh

Its a real crashing situation about Etherium. Today I i have tried to withdraw my altcoins request and it was unsuccsesful. As I understand, this situation happens now to all ERC20 altcoins?

Ethereum network was crashing because of the crypto kittes. Many people were doing transaction and because of that there was lag in the ethereum's network but now everything is fine.

Yes many user reported same issue on reddit as well.

Sounds good. Thanks for the update.

Why Ether’s price has increased so many in the last months?

The Ethereum Network becomes congested when there are more people using it, but in general, the rate of transfer is fast.