What the hell are Crypto kitties?

[slaman29]

Yeah god damn game is breaking the Internet. Eh Ethereum network. Vitalik better get his ETH 2.0 up and running real quick. How is it that one ETH game causes everything to become slow and expensive?

And now I know for sure we have a lot of rich young people online. Selling digital cats for 250 ETH? Even now I see the cheapest one is 0.7 ETH. I don't even spend this much money to buy games.

Ok I admit, I am playing the game, but the cost is too much for me so I withdraw. I think.

[Kryptowolf512]

Yeah god damn game is breaking the Internet. Eh Ethereum network. Vitalik better get his ETH 2.0 up and running real quick. How is it that one ETH game causes everything to become slow and expensive?

And now I know for sure we have a lot of rich young people online. Selling digital cats for 250 ETH? Even now I see the cheapest one is 0.7 ETH. I don't even spend this much money to buy games.

Ok I admit, I am playing the game, but the cost is too much for me so I withdraw. I think.

From what I saw, the cheapest cat was like 30$. So you need like 60$ to buy 2 Cats and let them have fun and you get a new cat

[Daniel_West]

I read some topics on reddit about crypto kitties and some people that they sold their kitties for 250ETH? WTF?
What is this ?

Basically, it's a funny n cute way to try your luck)

[rezurect]

I read some topics on reddit about crypto kitties and some people that they sold their kitties for 250ETH? WTF?
What is this ?

I have no clue what it is, but I am 100% sure it is the reason why the Ethereum network is bery slow at the moment. I need to pay 50 Gwei in order to have a normal speed transaction. Even with that Etherdelta is giving errors.

You are right, this game devours 15% of the ether network, and already as the second day the ether network got up. I can not imagine if we allow several such projects to be launched simultaneously, we will bury the ether forever.

I didn't know it could take up that much in that short time span..looks like it's easy for some competition to attack the eth network with projects like this.

[johnjin]

CryptoKitties allows anyone within the Ethereum network to purchase or sell breedable cartoon kittens. The decentralized structure of the Ethereum network disallows the alteration of ownership or production of fraudulent kittens, providing value to the kittens as collectibles with scarcity and rarity.

[cryptonoob312]

It's an app where you can buy kittens for crypto, tune them up and then sell them for more. Yeah, sounds like bullshit, but it got hype

[CryptoTamer]

I read some topics on reddit about crypto kitties and some people that they sold their kitties for 250ETH? WTF?
What is this ?

Cryptokitties is a game that is built in blockchain technology, the process is you will buy cats using Ethereum and breed them so you can earn by selling or trading them and also you will need to install metamask wallet on your pc or laptop to be able to get started. I also heard about it yesterday but I never tried play this game, but it is now trending because while playing you can also earn money, this is also the reason why Ethereum blockchain is congested and now experiencing scaling issues. Here's their official site: https://www.cryptokitties.co/

I think this game is so popular that it can cause congestion on Ethereum network, looks interesting I was curious to try this game
Hopefully i get a rare cat 

[kahc]

Good stress test for the network, however this game is utterly useless.
You can rise the price of your kitten by selling it to yourself several times.

I highly doubt that someone is willingly to pay 100 ETH for a 'nothing', the way I see it is that the owner buy/sell to him/herself, each times raising the price a little bit, so it appears that a kitten is popular and desired.

[svojoe]

It's crazy-crazy world. Some people around are insane imo. Maybe it happens because of some kind of kitty magic))) but mostly it's all about the human stupidity.

[kahc]

It's crazy-crazy world. Some people around are insane imo. Maybe it happens because of some kind of kitty magic))) but mostly it's all about the human stupidity.

You are right, probably FOMO too.
This game resembles of a ponzi-scheme, early buyers who got their kittens for free/low price are pushing the price higher and higher. Then we have these not-so-wise late-joiners thinking this is a good investment, buying for that overrated price, hoping to sell for higher. Only to be stucked with them kittens forever.

[vfrcbv91]

It's crazy, people are buying these kittens in the tens of thousands of dollars! People pay tens of thousands for a piece of useless code!

[juliasomething]

I read some topics on reddit about crypto kitties and some people that they sold their kitties for 250ETH? WTF?
What is this ?

I have no clue what it is, but I am 100% sure it is the reason why the Ethereum network is very slow at the moment. I need to pay 50 Gwei in order to have a normal speed transaction. Even with that Etherdelta is giving errors.

You are right, this game devours 15% of the ether network, and already as the second day the ether network got up. I can not imagine if we allow several such projects to be launched simultaneously, we will bury the ether forever.

Indeed, the blockchain will freeze, if it hasn't already. What I see from this project/experiment is a lesson the crypto world needed to learn. It has been said a few times, but nobody took the time to actually think about it.
But as it turns out, a sole blockchain cannot withstand more than 1 project. ONE SUCCESSFUL PROJECT. And in the case of ether network, that is ethereum. It was built for it and the fact that you can ass your coin to it, it was just meant to raise awareness and make people "consume" more of the network, make transactions with gas, so the network will always gain something.
Now, Bitcoin has its own network as well.

And the thing is that this project, or any project that aims to succeed needs its own blockchain, or it will eventually kill the entire network. I believe it's just a matter of time. For some it may take a few days, for others some years.

What bothered me, wad the cheap website and landing page this cryptokitties game gas. As it claims to be "one of the world's games built on the blockchain technology.... with cryptocollectible" BS. That's what it is. I see it as a MLM bs, with a nice marketing, what was probably set up by a marketer in the first place. It only proves once more, that a cute wrap sell about any crap.
As if this was not enough, the entire idea of this 1st thing ever that came up with this is stolen. It has been almost a year since the first collectible card game, a football manager game exists. It is a game which offers you the possibility to act like a football manager, setting football teams, for the future real football matches. And the ranking system from the game is based on the real results of the games. The top ranking managers get rewards in crypto and that's how the mining is being done.
Yes, it's a free game and that is the first crypto game that I know of. Their collectible football players cards are seen as your assets, which you own. The only one big difference is that this game can be played for free, since not all player cards must be bought. And you can win the crypto if you are smart enough.
Another thing that I learnt from both this projects is that FootballCoin, the football manager game is building its own blockchain, unlike CryptoKitties, just do THIS freezing blockchain situation never happens. A very big sign that the project has a vision and future plans for development, than a lucky shot the kittens have took.  

No trying to convince anyone, just putting this out there... hoping one of those people who have bought digital pictures of cartoones cats will read it. Happy breeding.

[BarkingHawk]

The point of the whole project may be to load the ETH network and bring it down a notch.  Surely the devs had to have considered the strain it would cause...

[Mazt rhiezt]

I read some topics on reddit about crypto kitties and some people that they sold their kitties for 250ETH? WTF?
What is this ?

I heard it within a few days and it was enough to disrupt the speed of eth transactions.
do not need to enter into the expensive game before we know the actual impact, hopefully eth team immediately do the prevention of the game because it is very disturbing.

[nexus2k14]

I read some topics on reddit about crypto kitties and some people that they sold their kitties for 250ETH? WTF?
What is this ?

CryptoKitties lets players buy and breed "crypto-pets" on Ethereum's  blockchain network. The real problem is this game put too much stress on Ethereum network and is in charge of approximately 20% total traffic. I think it will be banned from Network or there will be a fork to get rid of this game. I have nothing against but imagine is getting now to main media, and viral on all news portal, reddit, facebook, youtube. What will happen if 5 other crypto copycats create a similar game on Etereum Network?  stand still and transaction fees will increase. This craze didn't start yet for good, it's a good time to stop it before is too late.

[99th]

I read some topics on reddit about crypto kitties and some people that they sold their kitties for 250ETH? WTF?
What is this ?

CryptoKitties lets players buy and breed "crypto-pets" on Ethereum's  blockchain network. The real problem is this game put too much stress on Ethereum network and is in charge of approximately 20% total traffic. I think it will be banned from Network or there will be a fork to get rid of this game. I have nothing against but imagine is getting now to main media, and viral on all news portal, reddit, facebook, youtube. What will happen if 5 other crypto copycats create a similar game on Etereum Network?  stand still and transaction fees will increase. This craze didn't start yet for good, it's a good time to stop it before is too late.

What the heck is this lol. I just got suckered into making an account and I will probably be breeding kitties within the hour...oh god... From what I have gathered in a short time, this seems to be more profitable than airdrops and bounties 

And then crypto went to the kitties..............

[adrianto1995]

I read some topics on reddit about crypto kitties and some people that they sold their kitties for 250ETH? WTF?
What is this ?

Cryptokitties is a game that is built in blockchain technology, the process is you will buy cats using Ethereum and breed them so you can earn by selling or trading them and also you will need to install metamask wallet on your pc or laptop to be able to get started. I also heard about it yesterday but I never tried play this game, but it is now trending because while playing you can also earn money, this is also the reason why Ethereum blockchain is congested and now experiencing scaling issues. Here's their official site: https://www.cryptokitties.co/

hmm, looks like playing Tamagotchi / Pou, right ?  
but this difference uses etherum blockchain to play this game and you can earn some money if you successfuly raised our kitties and sell it...
i already heard about cryptokitties from my crypto telegram group and some people discuss about cryptokittis but I dont really care...

[lukaexpl]

I read some topics on reddit about crypto kitties and some people that they sold their kitties for 250ETH? WTF?
What is this ?

I have no clue what it is, but I am 100% sure it is the reason why the Ethereum network is bery slow at the moment. I need to pay 50 Gwei in order to have a normal speed transaction. Even with that Etherdelta is giving errors.

You are right, this game devours 15% of the ether network, and already as the second day the ether network got up. I can not imagine if we allow several such projects to be launched simultaneously, we will bury the ether forever.

How do you disallow participants of a decentralized network from using it and voting with their transaction fees what is really important and valuable in life (i.e. Cryptokitties)?

Where are all those BTC crappers / ETH to the moon prophets (such cheap and fast transactions). Seems it is not much better after first use case.

[Niya]

Silly game for idiots. That's the main reason Ethereum network has been so slow since yesterday, transactions are processed with delays and it's hard to invest in ICOs. I thought cryptocurrency users were more clever than this...

[veliq]

This is some kind of disgrace, I still do not understand what's going on. The Etherium network does not work all day, what will happen next. This is a bad test for the Etherium network.