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Topic: “crypto kitties” game bogging down the Ethereum network? (Read 306 times)

newbie
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According to this, a silly game that involves trading cartoon images of cats is bringing down the Ethereum network.   Pending transactions and failed transfers have spiked, and it seems to be linked to this game.  hopefully it’s a quick fad, like pokimon go, but if this is successful, even for a short time, there will be clones, and it could kill the netowrk...

https://qz.com/1145833/cryptokitties-is-causing-ethereum-network-congestion/

Yeah, the fact is like that. Many peoples also experiencing the same things, pending tx, rolled back and failed.
Peoples also talk about Cryptokitty here :
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/what-the-hell-are-crypto-kitties-2524558
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/eth-collectible-cat-game-cryptokitties-accountable-for-2-of-total-gas-usage-2460954
member
Activity: 308
Merit: 10
The game is very popular and not really well developed (each action in the game triggers an ethereum  transaction). They should group a bundle of internal transactions in one transaction in the ethereum public network
full member
Activity: 210
Merit: 103
According to this, a silly game that involves trading cartoon images of cats is bringing down the Ethereum network.   Pending transactions and failed transfers have spiked, and it seems to be linked to this game.  hopefully it’s a quick fad, like pokimon go, but if this is successful, even for a short time, there will be clones, and it could kill the netowrk...

https://qz.com/1145833/cryptokitties-is-causing-ethereum-network-congestion/

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