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    Ethereum At the moment Cryptokitties is the busiest smart contract on the Ethereum network, accounting for 13 % of all gas use - Ethereum is now primarily a platform to trade digital cats

    December 03, 2017

    Ethereum At the moment Cryptokitties is the busiest smart contract on the Ethereum network, accounting for 13 % of all gas use - Ethereum is now primarily a platform to trade digital cats

    At the moment Cryptokitties is the busiest smart contract on the Ethereum network, accounting for 13 % of all gas use - Ethereum is now primarily a platform to trade digital cats

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 05:27 AM PST

    Top 10 contracts by gas use: https://ethgasstation.info/gasguzzlers.php

    Fun fact: Genesis cat #1 has recently changed owners for 246 ETH

    Getting started with the game is currently somewhat expensive, as the cheapest cats go for around $5 worth of ether.

    PS: Just installed MetaMask to herd digital cats? Why not head over to ethereumlottery.io as well and get yourself a ticket? ;-)

    submitted by /u/vnovak
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    Once again Ethereum is almost full! A gas fee market is forming and needs to be addressed!

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 11:41 AM PST

    Thanks to increased adoption, and lately cryptokitties, ethereum is once again running into the gas limit. Miners need to up the gas limit again so we can continue to capture growth instead of sending development and interest elsewhere. Letting a fee market develop is devastating to the utility of the EVM and will have serious long term consequences if allowed to happen this early in history (just look how almost all development/investment left bitcoin for ethereum). We are still too far away from POS + Sharding to sit back and do nothing. Please bring awareness to this issue before it is too late!

    The gas fee market can be observed here at ethgasstation.info and you will see that sub 1 Gwei fees are no longer adequate most of the time. Unfortunately, this is only the beginning.

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    People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 05:00 PM PST

    We're seeing Ethereum's "Spacewar!" moment.

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 05:29 PM PST

    I've been in the blockchain/cryptocurrency space since the early 2010 Bitcoin days, and I've closely followed Ethereum since it's inception. In that time, there have been a few "holy shit" moments where something triggers a brief foresight into what tech like Ethereum might enable 10 years from now.

    CryptoKitties combines very basic functionality of the Ethereum network (transactions that interact with complex contracts) into a game that's unusually fun to play. To create the market dynamic we're seeing, the game incorporates a few clever features that work together: a marketplace, trait scarcity, randomness, a lineage decay model, a minimum cost for a new lineage, cool-down, and of course, "awww-inspiring" kittens.

    The exciting aspect of this game, though, is that all of the actual game mechanics are done completely without the use of a central server. You could extrapolate this idea a bit further and imagine:

    • CryptoKitties, instead of hosting assets on Google Cloud Storage, stores all assets on decentralized networks like Swarm or IPFS.
    • Continue the trend and imagine that CryptoKitties.co was instead CryptoKitties.eth, and that ENS domain pointed to a contract that could be rendered in a browser like Moon (announced at Devcon3).
    • It's likely that even the future 2-7.5 second block time enabled by the Casper PoS consensus mechanism won't be fast enough for prime-time. Slap a Raiden channel on that bitch for low-latency transactions.
    • Are CryptoKitties transactions clogging the entire network with random adoption/cat-mating transactions? Put it all on a Plasma subchain contract. (I'm unfamiliar with hypothetical block times on a single-level Plasma PoS subchain, so Raiden might be necessary for low-latency transactions on Plasma.)

    The implications of building dapps like this on platforms as capable as Ethereum are huge. The cost of data storage, infrastructure, and deployment is next to nothing, and this makes the only real barrier to launching a killer app putting it into code.

    Yes, CryptoKitties is a very basic example of a decentralized game, and yes, it's clogging the entire network right now, but it's got me pretty excited about the future of dapps. Spacewar! is considered to be one of the first real computer games to be developed, and could be an interesting analog.

    Thoughts?

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    Crypto Kitties on Ethereum (which has saturated the ETH network with one dapp) is a perfect example of a use-case that EOS is going to solve. [This is not going to be popular news here]

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:25 PM PST

    EOS can scale to millions of tx/per sec with parallel scaling. And it also supports smart contracts.

    That being said, I think ETH will always have a good first-mover advantage in the smart contract space, much as Bitcoin does in the money space.

    btw, I hold both.

    submitted by /u/BitcoinIsTehFuture
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    Who ever made this bot, you're awesome!

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 08:50 AM PST

    Programming your first smart contract using solidity

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:08 PM PST

    Join the new Python+Ethereum mailing list to stay up to date on all of the tools and libraries available for python developers working on Ethereum applications.

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:24 PM PST

    Blockchain Beach? Aruba Looks to Ethereum to Sustain Tourism

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 10:04 AM PST

    Aruba! Imagine that.

    Babs

    Blockchain Beach? Aruba Looks to Ethereum to Sustain Tourism: https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-beach-aruba-looks-ethereum-sustain-tourism/

    submitted by /u/babsamajabsma
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    Privat blockchains as a support for Ethereum scaling

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 08:28 AM PST

    What will the rewards be for staking Ether?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 09:56 AM PST

    Can someone ELI5 or provide some decent documentation? It's all a bit confusing.

    Thanks

    submitted by /u/SpontaneousDream
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    How ETH felt like this weekend...

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 06:41 PM PST

    Soverign Individual

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 07:23 AM PST

    Hi ETH Community.

    I'm focusing my next two weeks of discovery on all projects in the government realm. Specifically, anything that relates to self sovereignty. Thought I would ask you guys if you had seen any interesting projects related to this? Or papers on this subject? Or anything broadly related to it?

    I saw that Vitalik had posted a poll on Twitter last week with Government as one option which was one of the highest scoring.

    I read a book 'The Soverign Individual' by James Dale Davidson and since learning about blockchain & identity projects like uPort I have not been able to stop thinking about how empowered we as individuals could become from the realisation of such a project, despite the massive hurdles which exist.

    In return I promise to share with the community what I learn from my research.

    As a FYI - my background is as a research analyst for large hedge funds and recently as a venture developer. So that's the angle I'll take during my research.

    submitted by /u/JohnMeriwether
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    I've opened a Burnable Payment, the first of two aimed at decompiling the GeneScience code of cryptokitties

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 08:39 AM PST

    See the BP here.

    In short, I'm looking for a brief but knowledgeable run-down of the following question: how plausible is it to pay an expert to decompile the cryptokitties GeneScience bytecode, such that the logic of cryptokitties breeding is revealed?

    EDIT: more info:

    The BP has 0.8 ETH contained inside, which will be released in two rounds of response. Service deposit is 0.2 ETH. There is much more info on the BP itself.

    submitted by /u/coinop-logan
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    Stupid question but when is eth switching to proof of stake?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 03:14 PM PST

    Net Neutrality and Crypto-Currency

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 10:14 AM PST

    Will Net Neutrality laws make crypto-currencies illegal because the higher fees you pay the faster your transactions get processed? Therefore we have effectively created internet fast lanes on our networks, leaving them open to regulations by the FCC should NN stay in place. Thoughts?

    submitted by /u/physics515
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    How ETH felt like this week end...

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:10 PM PST

    Haven't maxed out your Kitty Ethereum passion? Try rescuing a MoonCat!

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 06:58 PM PST

    I wrote a guide for newcomers how to buy their first ethereum

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 10:50 AM PST

    Can someone please explain cryptokitties?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 06:20 PM PST

    I looked into it today and all I saw were really expensive cats. Can someone please explain why people are paying ETH for these?

    submitted by /u/bmm_3
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    Raiden Network Releases µRaiden: Gateway for Ethereum 2.0

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:13 PM PST

    [Update] My friend was in West Africa and filmed a short (15 min.) documentary on cryptocurrency and centralized money transfer services

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 11:50 AM PST

    What will exactly happen when the Proof of Stake occurs?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 12:33 PM PST

    Is there an ETA for Ethereum light client completion?

    Posted: 03 Dec 2017 07:57 PM PST

    Up until recently, syncing in light mode worked awesome but now, for whatever reason, It literally takes over an hour to find just a single peer max and sync.

    If I switch back to syncing normally, it will find several peers right away and begin syncing without issue.

    I don't know if anyone else has encountered this but its been pretty frustrating the last couple of days, so I'm just hoping it'll be addressed or resolved soon because I love this feature.

    Thanks!

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