What the hell are Crypto kitties?

[yonton]

I think its good for ethereum, its the first blockbuster game to bring mainstream adoption to crypto. And it is ethereum that made it happen. Sure there is congestion but that is to be expected just like the internet had problems scaling. Transaction speed will get faster! Not sure why many people are so short sighted and can't see how great this is for Ethereum.

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[cryptocortex]

Is this what is causing these delays that people are talking about?
If that's the case, how can their blockchain handle applications that requires 100x more capacity than this?

[yourialfa]

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.

I'm not sure about that. Just because the game ethereum becomes slow even etherdelta is also problematic. I was the first to hear about this and make ethereum become slow. Looks like I need to find more information about this.

[Greedy squirrel]

I'm afraid that if the developers of the ethereum do not kill these cats, then a lot of money will start to leave the system. This is a great opportunity to take advantage of this situation to other projects. I hate these cats.

[ItsCrafty]

I don't understand the mentality of those buying these Kitties. I mean what are they hoping for? Well never mind, those Kitties Devs are millionaires right now.

[RiskySanchez]

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.

I'm not sure about that. Just because the game ethereum becomes slow even etherdelta is also problematic. I was the first to hear about this and make ethereum become slow. Looks like I need to find more information about this.

Yap that's why. we still do not know what is happening now because there is no evidence published by etherdelta. seriously this is not normal why a big website like etherdelta is defeated by cat website -_- seriously i still don't understand. why ?!

[bribed]

Don't think CryptoKittens were made with purpose of showing Ethereum scaling problems. It sounds too much like some crazy conspiracy theory to me. Nevertheless, I was totally taken aback. I was of course totally aware (like everybody else I suppose) that Ethereum has its limits, and those has to be addressed in the future if it wants to take its position as new fintech IT infrastructure. Yet, I thought we still have a year at least before we hit a wall.

Now it is a little bit scary, as congestion is again rising. It really screws over some good ICO's right now, and the worst is the fact that there is really no other solution to the problem except to wait till the CryptoKittens hype (and traffic) will go down. Just sit and wait... annoying... I am also suprised that market didn't react and ETH price didn't went down.

Okay, thanks for answering to my question. I got a transaction still stuck since more than 24 hours now.

As you said there is nothing to do about it then wait for the hype to settle down, what is going to happen if the hype does not settle down or if now as something like this came up more people would start to create something similar, wouldnt this lead to a total congestion that could possibly kill ethereum? This scenario really scares the shit out of me.

Isnt there a way to restrict such dapps somehow while Ethereum has no solution for its scaling issues?

[Tamilson]

its game.. virtual cat
you can give food and sell them again if they have children..
sucks people who joining that, it makes 25k tx id pending in blockchain ethereum
i think thats a PONZI game.. sometimes can "scam & run" bring your money

And it seems that many are easily get hook with it. Actually when I first saw this crytokitten I thought that if there's people that will gonna put their money here, yeah it's cute but it's not worth for any single eth but to my surprise people now are making fuzz with it and make the transaction too congested. And something fishy is going on here.

[Thekingace]

This fucking game cost me so much money by delaying my ether trade, I just lost 8k$ because of it. I already abhorred cats in real life, I now abhor virtual ones too.

[mayo2u]

I think that this is useless project, which only loads the ETH-network. My morning transactions have not yet done, it`s terrible. These are simple pictures on the screen...

By itself it's fluff but I think it functions as an excellent proof of concept - namely that numerous strangers can work on similar tasks trying to accomplish goals.

[ZCoinTalk]

This is really crazy. The amount people are willing to spend on virtual cats. It is downright gambling.

[kioicoin]

I think it's just the blockchain version of Tamagotchi. But you can not play with your kitty. So I was shocked by the super high price of the vitual kitties.

[RDNX]

I think it's just the blockchain version of Tamagotchi. But you can not play with your kitty. So I was shocked by the super high price of the vitual kitties.

it's not blockchain, its shitty dapps on ETH blockchain,

[ckorbba]

I think that this is useless project, which only loads the ETH-network. My morning transactions have not yet done, it`s terrible. These are simple pictures on the screen...

By itself it's fluff but I think it functions as an excellent proof of concept - namely that numerous strangers can work on similar tasks trying to accomplish goals.

How can such punctures be avoided in the future? It seems to me that every user would not like to face such projects and lose not only finance, but also in due time.

[udonmez]

I do not believe that this bloody application f*cks all ethereum network.

[AboeHoeraira]

Sad how (likely) because of this ETH been dropping these days while BTC is going up like crazy
sad because i just invested in ETH lol

[MIV.matteo]

I can't believe this thing blocked the ethereum blockchain, this shows that ethereum is not ready to be adopted specifically.

[pailwrevious]

This is amazing for the whole cryptocurrency market and the blockchain technology. One of the first projects based on blockchain which makes this technology accessible to the general public (I guess mostly girls). We should be irritated about the clogging of the network right now but happy for the future as this brings even more people to cryptos meaning your stack will be worth more in the future.

[Gargo]

I can't believe this thing blocked the ethereum blockchain, this shows that ethereum is not ready to be adopted specifically.

In fact, sometimes it's hard to find out. I can not believe Ethereum or other crypto myself. This is simply unbelievable. I hope that we will continue to record such brilliant coin prices.

[syana]

ahah, still didn't get what is was but made me laugh a lot !!!!