Topic: Tell me I'm wrong: Does cryptokitties expose the weaknesses of ETH? - page 3. (Read 1194 times)

the problem has always been there. this kitty thing just made it more visible.
actually if i recall correctly, 2 months ago some other ICO caused the same issue with Ethereum and big exchanges closed down their wallets for ETH and all its tokens for over a week.

No, it is a simple usage of ETH the way it is designed. a stress test would have been thousands of transaction every 15 seconds to increase the mempool to 100,000 transactions pending (similar to bitcoin spam attack/stress test) and it causes much bigger problems that this would seem funny in comparison.

and remember that it is not all about pending transactions or how slow it is for a short time, it is about all the data that you are storing in the blockchain and how big the whole blockchain is going to become. if i am not mistaken currently ETH blockchain is 3 times bigger than bitcoin's blockchain and that is a disaster because so far nobody new can sync anymore unless they use light wallets or web wallets. and good luck decentralizing such currency!

no, because it is by design. that is how every coin based on blockchain words. PoW or PoS wouldn't make a difference either.

it is. but most of them are not any better. they are mostly not used and that makes them simpler to use and it hides issues like this the same way it was hidden in ETH for a long time.

that is kind of irrelevant. because the price is based on speculation and manipulation. you may not even lose any money in short term!

as i said, it is by design so it is a long term issue. it may go away for a while but it will always exist.

This proves that Ethereum cant hold a large of numbers of transactions in a day,this crap games will ruin ethereum's price.

So what's next then - can ETH fix this, or do you think this is a chance for another coin to take its 'second' spot behind bitcoin? And if so, which one? Something built off the ETH network, or a completely different solution? I am doing my best to learn but am still pretty hazy about all the technicalities (strengths and weaknesses) of the different blockchains, tangle, etc etc

Yep absolutely. People were FUDding against BTC saying ETH would replace BTC because ETH was a lot faster than BTC which was facing scaling issue at that time. Now this proves the infrastructure of ETH is probably not a lot better than BTC - it seemed better only because it wasn't handling as much as BTC did!

Yes definitely. Prior people were happy about how this shows potential usage for the ETH network beyond ICOs and they were correct...but only if it can handle the volume and transactions. Clearly the ETH network needs some work but the potential is still there which should be encouraging.

This is basically the perfect argument towards a fee market. Which means free or even very low fees basically open up any network towards spamming/bloating attacks.

Same argument Bitocin has; some people want free transactions but that would mean that even 100GB blocks would be filled with junk like everyone's morning coffee or kitties games...


Now that even the high and mighty Ethereum with super fast blocks and high tps is getting spammed, maybe more and more people will realize that Bitocin X-MB block forks are not the answer.

The kitties demonstrate the weakness of any blockchain that doesn't scale effectively; that's why the vast bulk of current ethereum foundation work is currently going towards blockchain scaling solutions. Until then, we'll have to get used to the new old normal of >20gwei gas prices.

I'm going to miss the times when you could get a 0.1gwei transaction through in under 10 blocks...

The lagging on ETH transfers today because of one dumb game is a real problem in my opinion. Is this merely a stress test - can ETH easily roll out a fix? Or is this the chance for ETH competitors to swoop in and show how they have better platforms? I was really trying to build up a little ETH portfolio so today's developments have me literally going  

Can those of you more familiar with what's going on please explain if this is a glitch in the matrix or a long-term issue?


Edited: to fix a couple of typos