Why is ethereum so slow?

[Phil419She]

I am also having the same problem with my transactions at etherdelta. My trade was still pending at its almost 2 days ago. It really got me worried because this is my first time having a problem with trading ethereum based tokens and I thought this is just etherdelta maintenance but now I've read some of this comments and see it's actually not only in ED. I hope this will be resolved soon.

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[sarul]

same thing with me i have been trying to transfer tokens on etherdelta for an hour now but for some reason its not working.
any idea whats going on?

It's happening because the Cryptokitties game so trend for now, more information can be found here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2524558.msg25775047#msg25775047,
Just try to increase your GAS price slightly more expensive.

[rube08]

I never knew you could play a kitten game on the ethereum network.  I thought this coin was all about transactions and business, which it still is. Playing game on the network seems to be a black eye in the ethereum network. They should make a fork so that people can't play games on a multi billion dollar payments system.

[airdrophunter]

It happened to me too that i was forced to cancel my pending transaction that sits for about 2 hours in EtherDelta. I don't know if ED is just so congested but it's been my first time encountering this very slow confirmation of your transaction.

[duola9527]

 Because CryptoKitties causes , According to ETH Gas Station, the CryptoKitties Ethereum smart contract accounted for 13.94 percent of Ethereum’s transaction volume over the last 1,500 blocks

[ufaiz50]

I am doing trades on ehterdelta where the default gas price is 4 Gwei. The network in the last few days is terribly slow I remember 1 week ago I was making trades on 1 Gwei and even 0.1 and the transactions were done within minutes, now with 4 Gwei I have to wait like 20 minutes and sometimes the transactions get canceled. My question is what is the reason for this? Is it temporary or it will be like this for the near future?

indeed I also experienced the same thing with you but not for 20 minutes and the longest wait 10 minutes it's different from last year's very fast. some said because etherdelta set some confirmation to get into the balance and some say because kitten game. if you do not want to wait too long try to raise your gas.

[inyakizuryel]

To be honest i really dont know why the electroneum is very slow in fixing their sites and distributing the stakes to the participants all we have to do is wait for the bounty and trust the process

[Razor5]

It happened to me too that i was forced to cancel my pending transaction that sits for about 2 hours in EtherDelta. I don't know if ED is just so congested but it's been my first time encountering this very slow confirmation of your transaction.

It's not special to you or it's not about Etherdelta but the network is delayed. Because of the game called Cryptokitties there are lot of transactions in line. It's like a network attack but actually it just shows how weak Ethereum still is. They need to upgrade the product fast.

[Freebieindia]

same happened with me also on Etherdelta, made some transaction but it failed. i think its because of Crypto Kitties and it will be solved soon, just a temporary problem .

[bitofc]

it is all cryptokitties' fault.  The kitties craze is killing Ethereum network.

[babsjoe]

Ethereum platform can not suddenly upgrade because of a senseless project. This is an attack on etheteum network! Imagine if we have ten of this kind of project on ethereum right now, it will definitely bury ethereum platform

[oegarod]

Weeks back suddenly the price grew high reaching above $450 and the same started to gain stability moving within the $500 mark. Ethereum might start growing higher in value by the starting of 2018, same as that happened with the present year start taking the price to reach bigger growth than that of bitcoin in terms of growth percentage.

[VarDiff]

It's so funny and cool at the same time

Everyone in crypto community talking about neural networks, social networks, data science and many other buzz words.
But the reality hit us to face with .. virtual kitties that crush the one of the biggest blockchain just in few days.

A simple game without any rocket science. Hello, crypto future. We need something faster.

[eucalyptus]

I dont understand why people have problem with ethereum transfer. Even today many people wrote that they waited for a long time. When I sent ethereum it takes at most 15 minutes to transfer. I even transferred 2 times today.

[Rinsend]

I am also having the same problem with my transactions at etherdelta. My trade was still pending at its almost 2 days ago. It really got me worried because this is my first time having a problem with trading ethereum based tokens and I thought this is just etherdelta maintenance but now I've read some of this comments and see it's actually not only in ED. I hope this will be resolved soon.

no need to worry about the existence of such problems,
because of course the market is very rapidly changing cause unfavorable impact.
and maybe they're improving,
but if it stuck up to 2 days,
there is naturally you feel panic, because all would have the same response

[Snactolate]

Because of the recent Crypto Kitties game. Buying and selling virtual kittens on the main Ethereum blockchain. Literally just a virtual character on a website. Like collecting pokemon in Pokemon Go except that it runs on the ETH blockchain and the only way to add new kitten are to buy or gave birth to it. Both done on ETH chain and people somehow love it. That's why the network is clogged up, people are making transactions to sell, buy, and gave birth to new kittens LOL. Hilarious. What a way to force Ethereum dev to scale up their blockchain

https://www.cryptokitties.co/
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/03/people-have-spent-over-1m-buying-virtual-cats-on-the-ethereum-blockchain/
https://cointelegraph.com/news/viral-cat-game-responsible-for-huge-portion-of-ethereum-transactions
https://twitter.com/CryptoKitties/status/937444644740198400

I've been hearing about these cryptokitties all day.. pfft got tokens held up for hours now because of some fad game?? Grrrr

[ajiejot]

Ethereum's blockhain now has huge traffic. Some telling because of those "cats" thingy ICO. Last December 3 still hard to transfer ethereum or tokens to other, specially to etherdeta, withdraw or deposit , still so difficult. I hope this will be fixed soon.

[Evanston45]

Try 24 hours...that’s how long I’ve been waiting for my Ethereum to transfer out of coinbase! Still zero confirmations

[Remainder]

I don't see any issue of transferring etherium to another wallet or exchange it's only 5-10minutes for me. Maybe they give too low gwie or transaction fee for that transaction.

[rayjellanajao]

That's because of the release of Cryptokitties, it makes the ethereum network congested. You can look at the pending transactions in Ethereum Blockchain, that to many and still increasing.