[Eth] Collectible cat game (CryptoKitties) accountable for 2% of total gas usage

[industria77]

TLDR:

• Collect, trade, and breed cryptographically unique Kitties
• Kitties have a 256-bit genome with rare genes and special "Fancy Cats" hidden throughout
• Early access was launched on Thursday, within a few hours became one of top-used dApps ever, accounting for 2%+ of total gas usage that day
• One of the first at-scale uses of blockchain that is not cryptocurrency or fund transfer

Link: https://private.cryptokitties.co

https://i.redd.it/5lkkzun0izzz.png

[Wekkel]

I checked out the page. It is utterly useless but that's not the point. The idea of buying, holding, breeding and selling kittens online must take of massively or I will eat my hat (and everyone should then stop posting kat videos).

They are adorable 

[letuananhnd]

interesting idea. I have attended

[coingrow]

I am not sure what is the purpose of this. Either I am not getting it or its just a stupid game for people who have absolutely nothing to do and are in love with cats. BTW cats make me sick so I will just let this one go.

[Panda Trump]

TLDR:

• Collect, trade, and breed cryptographically unique Kitties
• Kitties have a 256-bit genome with rare genes and special "Fancy Cats" hidden throughout
• Early access was launched on Thursday, within a few hours became one of top-used dApps ever, accounting for 2%+ of total gas usage that day
• One of the first at-scale uses of blockchain that is not cryptocurrency or fund transfer

Link: https://private.cryptokitties.co

That's pretty cool. I'm gonna check it out later today.

Now I really wanna capture, catch & collect all those kitties! 

But what is the thing with Ξ? Ξ1 = 1 Ethereum, so $500? That means cryptokitties are pretty insanely expensive?

[yayboss]

The eth network is experiencing significant congestion because of cryptokities on eth network running round lol

[Roidz92]

Probably all the people that now playing only a games, will be millionaire next years.

[Dasengineer]

I can't even check what is that. The website is down or what? Showing the pink logo of Ethereum all the time.

[Alex68]

ETH is buried under the cat litter! Thank you, CryptoKitties - you have killed ETH...
Now any shitty transaction fee is over $1.5...

[SheepSuit]

This looks extremely cool. I heard one cat was sold for over 200 ETH?

[coolcryptomaniac]

People buying virtual cats for 100's of USD whereas , many homeless kitties looking for home , human is a greedy and showoff animal.

[Roidz92]

People buying virtual cats for 100's of USD whereas , many homeless kitties looking for home , human is a greedy and showoff animal.

homeless kitties will die, but these kind of kitties will worth millions and never dies, so..
once we will make millions, we can help more real kitties maybe?

[qiwoman2]

LMAO this is hilarious., Someone told me today in a telegram group that this game has gassed and clogged up the Ethereum blockchan and has caused havoc everywhere. This really is a total waste of of time in my books but people have time to kill and many a rich kid is bored so breeding cats is cute for them I guess, gives them a sense of purpose lol muhahahaha  Anyway good luck to the lucky breeders, may they go forth and ruddy multiply.

[themathiasmiller]

LMAO this is hilarious., Someone told me today in a telegram group that this game has gassed and clogged up the Ethereum blockchan and has caused havoc everywhere. This really is a total waste of of time in my books but people have time to kill and many a rich kid is bored so breeding cats is cute for them I guess, gives them a sense of purpose lol muhahahaha   Anyway good luck to the lucky breeders, may they go forth and ruddy multiply.

Same here I only knew about this project because of the problem that they've caused on the eth's network, so I checked it out, honestly it's not that bad and it's not solely a waste of time, you can actually earn a pretty good amount when you breed cryptokitties, the more cryptokitties you have, the more money you can get and this game is going viral so I think in a couple of months these people who are breeding cryptokitties will probably be rich and because of the problem that they've caused more people are getting interested with this project that's why I think right now is the best time to join this project and breed some cryptokitties  , who knows maybe because of this game you can be a thousand dollars richer or maybe more  

[Gaius Cryptus Tradius]

Crypto Kitties has now 20% of all the transactions of the ETH network. It is clogging the ETH network right now. Seems like a good stress test for the system

[tiggytomb]

LMAO this is hilarious., Someone told me today in a telegram group that this game has gassed and clogged up the Ethereum blockchan and has caused havoc everywhere. This really is a total waste of of time in my books but people have time to kill and many a rich kid is bored so breeding cats is cute for them I guess, gives them a sense of purpose lol muhahahaha   Anyway good luck to the lucky breeders, may they go forth and ruddy multiply.

Same here I only knew about this project because of the problem that they've caused on the eth's network, so I checked it out, honestly it's not that bad and it's not solely a waste of time, you can actually earn a pretty good amount when you breed cryptokitties, the more cryptokitties you have, the more money you can get and this game is going viral so I think in a couple of months these people who are breeding cryptokitties will probably be rich and because of the problem that they've caused more people are getting interested with this project that's why I think right now is the best time to join this project and breed some cryptokitties  , who knows maybe because of this game you can be a thousand dollars richer or maybe more  

Same as you, because of the network problems it was highlighted to me by someone complaining about Cryptokitties, when I checked it out it is pretty damn cool, funny enough can't get any ETH into it because of the network issues, a really good idea and this sort of thing goes viral, people love virtual pets.

[blue_id69]

and this game turn form 2% to 17% transaction made in ethereum network. some people hate it, cause of that make almost 16k transaction delay in one day

[turneps]

I can not understand. I could not understand when people buy live cats when there are so many homeless and hungry cats on the street who can be saved. But these are virtual cats that cost a lot of money. What for? World has gone mad

[Roidz92]

I can not understand. I could not understand when people buy live cats when there are so many homeless and hungry cats on the street who can be saved. But these are virtual cats that cost a lot of money. What for? World has gone mad

money.

[Moeloe]

This looks extremely cool. I heard one cat was sold for over 200 ETH?

probably the buyer and seller are the same person, they are adding more value to their own kitties to buy and sell them to themselves..
waiting till someone is willing to buy it for this insane price.

but still pretty awesome and a good test for the network