What the hell are Crypto kitties?

[rainbow169]

This reminds me of Tamagotchi and more recently Pokemon Go. Given its popularity we might see more crypto-pets coming up and even ICO behind it .

I don't personally consider this a bad thing for Ethereum and Crypto. This is the type of fun news that we desperately need to mixed up with all the government crack down type of news. What crypto/blockchain needs today is to make it easy to understand and connect with normal people.

[Endikadija]

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...

This crap game was hurting the ethereum chain. What the fuck is this https://etherscan.io/address/0x06012c8cf97bead5deae237070f9587f8e7a266d
Over 580k transaction.
This is the main reason that's why the majority of the people get stuck by using the ethereum at this time. Over 20% of the total transaction. Why so many people are buying this crap thing.  My transaction gets stuck. This must be stopped.

[Oni89]

So that's why my transactions wont push through.I'ts been 2 days already.Can't someone do something about this?Losing a lot of opportunities because of Ethereum's heavy traffic.

[juicejoyce]

its a game where you buy kitties and then you can breed and sell them

https://www.cryptokitties.co/

Yes, it is a very hot games based on Etherium network and it makes the network crowded. I do not know much about it, just heard it from my friends. I do not like that game.

[Gecko8]

Cryptokitties is like a proof-of-concept of what is possible on Ethereum - imagine kitties replaced with other in-game items etc. Unfortunately, it's also revealed that Ethereum, once again, can't handle high volume. 

WHAT A LESSON FOR THE WHOLE CRYPTOWORLD!!!!!!!! I tried the game, as I am just curios, how it actually works. And I need to confes, the POW is not confirmed for the ethereum network. We will see HUGE problems in coming month for the cryptoworld, if there are no more reliable projects in place, which can handle much, much higher transactions also with a LOT lower transaction fees.

[White_A]

this game will make crypto currency very popular among people for whom the names ETHERIUM and BITCOIN were too complicated, and the kittens are very simply

[bribed]

Glad I found this thread. Ive also seen some memes about it and that everybody is talking about kittens today, but I dont understood the big deal. As this seems to be just the beginning of this game, dont you think that this is way too much for the ethereum blockchain to handle? Maybe this is a coup executed by some competition of Ethereum to show the public the weaknesses Ethereum networks scalability. So as this is a game, and not an airdrop of some sort as I first thought, we can now expect that this will go on continously like that am I right? ETH network will be clogged until they stop the game? Hope Im wrong and someone corrects me.

[dumplingsandsushi]

WTH Cryptokitties? I spend one day away from bitcointalk and come back to find out a blockchain Tamagochi game is revealing flaws in ETH platform while also revealing that people are stupid enough to pay hundreds of dollars for a fake, pixel kitty.

Crypto never ceases to amaze me.

Of course, to most of us it sounds like a pointless project, but I have to hand it to the devs of the game, they found a simple way to earn money.  Do they care that they are clogging the network? I highly doubt it.  The amount of coding that went into this seems minimal, and I'm thinking they might have used Pokemon Go as a crude model of how something can catch on, become a craze, and it can be capitalized on.

Some things that can potentially come out of this is projects like Chainlink starting to be seen as more essential as scalability issues are readily evident.  Solutions that can help to solve this are necessary and worth promoting and investing in.  The problem with Chainlink is that there is no actual working product yet nor is there any indication that one will come out soon...

[rommil]

I'm trying also to understand what is wrong the world. Everyone is just talking about them. Even Buterin appreciated those kitties

[ranman09]

Its a game. Where you can buy kitties images haha. And those kitties have values somehow and i dont know why. Says in the website that, what runs in the network is its details on ownership. Still i dont know why its valuable.

[PonyBoy]

https://bitify.com/auctions/other-cryptocoins/cryptokitties-co-maincoon-kitty-super-rare-only-96-374512/

[woas4]

Why are you guys hating so much on Cryptokitties? Its success only means the Ethereum platform is working as intended (and being improved on a frequent basis). Many more games like this will come in the very near future, and if the scaling solutions are in place to withstand the workload, then Ether is going to explode in adoption (and consequently price as well).

[babsjoe]

This is not about hate, it's about the timing and disruption to the ethereum network! There are many valuable project depending on the network and many ICO can not be executed as they should!

[traderethereum]

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

they sold kitties for 250 eth? geez they will be a rich now because its huge money. maybe the game is like pokemon or tamagochi like above said and actually, I am amazed about the game which can attract people to play. although I don't too often play games, sometimes I will try the game later and see how it looks like.

[Hodl_lady]

Hello, guys! Today around 5 hours I tried to collect information about CryptoKitties from different sourses. And what I want to share with you:
1. CryptoKitties did a super-duper hype and it's great - I was waiting any interesting crypto-game since winter and couldn't find anything (maybe, you know and could reccomend me smth ) I didn't notice any great game hype since Pokemon Go.
2. if you want to join CryptoKitties - it will take a lot of time: you should know and understand all rules and principles (there are a lot of small-small-small details that make the game). And according some info: every day it will be a gap between new people and the first kitty-holders. Maybe, developers will add special rules or compensation after some period - no idea.
3. the main annoying thing - Ethereum network is almost not working... I was so angry when I tried to buy 4 kitties I had chosen - and as a result - 4 times my transactions were not completed and I didn't buy any cat but comission was taken every time. Just imagine what can be with Ethereum network if few other hype projects will be released in December... And one day such situation could be! That's very upset.

[unusualfacts30]

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.

It's a digital revolution. Pretty much anything that wouldn't have value otherwise is getting value attached to it. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing when it comes to economy as a whole and not just digitally.

[boyjackyou]

Crypto kitties are morelikely a farmville game where you can breed the kitties to get more ethereum like farming in farmville this is why ethereum transactions are super slow today.

[d0r10n]

I definately won't "play" Crypto Kitties, but I can see the appeal to certain audience. Main thing is more exposure for crypto which will make crypto a part of daily life.

Only thing is it really shows Ethereum can't handle this amount of txs, bad and good, how is Ethereum going to handle all these ICO projects coming online in the next year or two and that have utility tokens being used to fuel their platforms.

Stratis, Ark, Ardor etc need to get up to speed so ICOs can be released on these instead of Ethereum.

[Dlugina23]

This game is dumped eth price faster then btc pump.

[Red Lanterns]

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)

Everything where there are kittens is bounded to be successful People just love kittens