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December 06, 2017, 11:02:40 AM |
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I have mixed feelings every time I hear about this application. At first this looks like great news for ethereum, because an application was finally created that is getting adopted all over the world. I know we already had etherdelta, but that was an exchange, so it's still tied to the speculative financial market. CryptoKitties is just a game, that is also tied to speculation, since it's objective is to create and collect rare kitties, but it is still a game. This just proves the point that ethereum dapps, have a real use case application, and we will probably see more collectible games coming up, or other types of applications that could benefit from a decentralized network.
The problem is, that this small game also showed us, how fragile ethereum still is when it comes to scalability. How can we expect global adoption of ethereum, and a large number of successful dapps running on the network, if we can't even handle one. I know these issues affect most crypto, including bitcoin, but lets not forget that BTC is now more tied to gold and to being an asset, so even being at max capacity, it can still handle things for now. Ethereum, on the other hand, really needs to solve this issues fast, otherwise it wont be able to handle dapps or even ICO funding.
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