Why is the Ethereum network so slow now??? - Answer here

[inthelongrun]

Well then, it simply means Ethereum needs to upgrade itself especially in terms of scaling. These last several days have been very hard for people that need to do transactions in the Ethereum network. Ethereum has to do something. Otherwise, people will get tired of this mess and will opt to get out of the network. Crypto Kitties have caused so much trouble in the network. Seriously clogging the network is not good because it will cause a lot of pending transactions.

[francojon]

now i think its normal when you pay more GAS, i have same problem since 6 december, a lot of transaction pending, with 40-60 gwei its solved.

The gas for a 210k gas limit at 60 is nearly 1 to 2 USD. It is unsustainable. We need protocolos that can short this out.

[CONTRACT]

Everyone expresses dissatisfaction with the slowness and high price of the etherium transactions, but he does not have a real competitor if one can name a really working platform that can take a part of the market from the etherium - it's not there, only solid projects and empty words are nothing more. So we just wait, Vitalik already knew for a long time that the time has come for the next step.

[QueenOfCrypto]

Ethereum has some serious problem of scalability, if it won't find a solution at some point some competitor wil pop up and thake its place.

[batier84]

Yes Cryptokitties delivered a certain problem to the network Ethereum but I think in any case it was a signal to the developers of Ethereum so that such problems do not recur in the future.

[finzyoj]

Well then, it simply means Ethereum needs to upgrade itself especially in terms of scaling. These last several days have been very hard for people that need to do transactions in the Ethereum network. Ethereum has to do something. Otherwise, people will get tired of this mess and will opt to get out of the network. Crypto Kitties have caused so much trouble in the network. Seriously clogging the network is not good because it will cause a lot of pending transactions.

I am one of those who was annoyed by the pending transactions in ethereum. The game called Crypto Kitties who used Etherdelta for the transaction have cause a lot of trouble and imagine if another game will be doing the same thing too. I just hope that the Etherdelta won't wait for another fork before solving this. As of today, the transaction seems normal and the processing is back to normal but what if it happen again? I just hope that there would be a proper announcement or something from the Etherdelta so that we would be aware.

[mpufatzis]

Tens of thousands new investors are coming every day. This is going to grow more in the future.
I thing that all these people are buying for investment, thats why is this happening.
It's an issue that has to concerne the developers but it affects us.

[francojon]

Ethereum has some serious problem of scalability, if it won't find a solution at some point some competitor wil pop up and thake its place.

Bitcoin at the moment is charging 10USD or so? And the miners chosed to do very little about it. Eventually, BTC will have less value due to that and more exchanges will move to pairs with Ethereum and others

[JanEmil]

Speed is back.
I pay only 4 GWEI again with MyEtherWallet and EtherDelta.

[Ging]

indeed the network of ethdelta was touched with that kittens issue but know the network is much better now and the transaction are made easily but i still have a problem with initiating of etherdelta is still to be heavy to start.

[francojon]

Everyone expresses dissatisfaction with the slowness and high price of the etherium transactions, but he does not have a real competitor if one can name a really working platform that can take a part of the market from the etherium - it's not there, only solid projects and empty words are nothing more. So we just wait, Vitalik already knew for a long time that the time has come for the next step.

If you think Ethereum does not have competitors you should take a look at the market. Existing projects and the new generation of blockchains that can eat Ethereum for breakfast and Bitcoin for dinner in terms of performance. Ethereum must move fast.