Topic: [Eth] Collectible cat game (CryptoKitties) accountable for 2% of total gas usage (Read 1303 times)

The immense amount of shame I've been feeling these past 12-hours is a new experience for me. I just started taking a peak at Crypto-Kitties and used the little bit of extra ETH I had laying around to fund a starter account, here I am 12-hours later without any sleep and I'm still reading about traits, genes and other nonsense about CryptoKitties.

I'll say that easily 95% of my gas usage comes from CryptoKitties and the other 5% is moving funds around for CryptoKitties; I did not have any use for ETH prior to this, I only would buy some and hold it when I believed it was going to increase in value. It's been a good alternative to Bitcoin when the market goes bearish, but at this point it feels as though ETH actually has a usage other than being a place holder for me.

I haven't slept in over a day because of this silly game, but I've made some profit and learned a ridiculous amount of information; if you asked me what I thought I'd be doing today it would not have anything to do with CryptoKitties, yet here we are.

This game impresses me in a lot of ways, of course it's goofy and a little bit silly, but it does a phenomenal job of putting all of the CryptoCurrency terms into some relatable terms in order to introduce the concept to a much wider audience base. This game would entertain anyone old enough to play Neopets or old enough to be an experienced market manipulator. This is an excellent way to help deal with the vast amount of interest crypto has received from regular people that may struggle to understand crypto in terms more complex than kitties and breeding. That being said, I'm having a romp playing it, breeding Fancy cats, profiting off of lucky breeds and working my way up to better kitties.

I like crypto kittens. Though someone did something cool and interesting, this is a step forward for the development of the crypto currency.

Apps like that will bury Ethereum

Oh, that's who did it.  If it's competitors did, then they worked fucking cool in a backhanded ethernet network. 

It was probably devised by Sasha the creator of the waves platform to bring down ethereum
So far it is doing a pretty good job! Hasn't affected the price of ETH itself, but when waves and lisk start to deliver things may change.

Because of these useless cats, the etherium network is overloaded! It annoys me. I have to increase the commission.
Now I like dogs more. 

What a nonsense!
Where the world rolls, what crypto cats.
This world kriptovalyut, what kind of cats, people that you absolutely went?
And now you take more andmore advertise, and then complain that the eth network is busy with this shit and you cant make a transaction

You guys got no vision, this is going to be massive and bring the world to cryptocurrency, when this gets onto mobile there will be kids pestering there mums and dads for these cats. There will be spoilt brats with rich parents wanting a gen 0 fast kitty to start there own kitty lineage. How much will they pay for that a few years down the line when they are scarce as scarce can be? Because most people are breeding these cats to take profits somewhere down the line and so the cats turn from fast breeding cats to slow breeding cats I think there's 10 levels, the more you breed the cat the slower it gets and this is passed down its lineage. There are going to be 100,000 or so gen 0 kitties and these are at the top of the gene pool, some are worth more than others due to genetic traits and when you breed a gen 0 cat with another gen 0 cat you get a gen 1 kitty, if you breed a gen 1 cat with a gen 2 cat you get a gen 3 kitty.
Imo gen 0-7 will be the most sought after coins sorry cats, this time next year with crazy money being bandied about.
I haven't been this excited about a crypto since I found out about bitcoin in 2011, I hope ethereum and the cryptokitty devs are up to the task with this one, however even if platform is shut down for a few weeks till they got there shit together with scalability (instead of trying to shaft investors with extra transaction fees) there is an upside to this for initial investors as there will be a lull in production of kitties and a rise in demand meaning all the kitty's would get snapped up when it goes mobile and prices would spike massively.

Ramble over.

Yeah I did notice a lot of airdrops getting cancelled postponed which does smell of a bad project/scam. I think that given the amount of airdrops we were seeing this was actually a blessing in many ways. I am a beginner to this space, but there are many even more new than myself that don't realize when a scam is upon them. I hope the gas price goes down, but it stays high enough to detract airdrop scammers.

Crypto Kitties represent 'digital assets'. These assets do not have to mean anything (just like art does not always mean anything). The asset is simply valued by humans and that fact alone is sufficient to give it value.

In respect of the Crypto Kitties, I assume that at some point, the number of transactions goes down because breeding goes slower and lower the higher generation the Kitties are (they have to regenerate longer and longer after a breeding thing). That should bring the congestion down a bit.

Ohhh yeah! I would love to see more widespread blockchain application which aren't currencies! I think there's real potential there...
Instead of mining for verifying a coin, why not mining for training AI? Or for solving problems?

These seals plugged the ethereum network, the cost of transactions was increased several times. And for what? Crypto Kitties is not even a coin, not a token. Electronic toy

Those kitties are really nice. Bright and good idea - everything is starting with the games. Also do not understand users who are blaming kitties for the gas costs and everything else. Do not use most innovative crypto software - use VISA or Mastercard, there will never be any crypto animals. But Ethereum must close this problem in several months or they will loose the market.

In my opinion, this is a step forward for the development of the crypto currency. For the first time crypto currency is widely used not as a payment medium. I like that crypto currencies are developing. 

I do not like raising the commission due to these crypto cats. I am forced to pay more commission only because these CryptoKitties appeared. At me to these CryptoKitties only a negative.

When I first encountered this, I sent some money to a friend, but the transaction was never completed. After that, I started looking for information about this. I found information about Crypto Kitties and was very surprised. But I tried to increase the commission for the transfer and the money reached a friend in 10 minutes. I do not consider Crypto Kitties a big problem. 

While I'm watching only a little more commission for the transaction. I do not observe other problems with the ethereum network. I believe that CryptoKitties is a big step in the development of the crypto currency.

The creator of Crypto cats is an "excellent person". I think that Crypto cats were created specifically to harm ethereum network. It takes much time for transactions now.

The good thing is that the gas increase limit a lot of "free airdrop" scam. They can't handle a 1$ transaction fees so here we go, a fee market that filter real value asset. But it's not that bright. If ethereum want to be a blockchain for Dapp it need a lot of scaling improvement.

The kitties are going down