CryptoKitties explained – The massive Ethereum craze

That was a terrible explanation. I still don't understand any of it.
 
K3NS31 said:
That was a terrible explanation. I still don't understand any of it.
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Buy, breed and then sell. That's pretty much the just of the game.

Breeding has different levels to it. If you own 2, you can breed them yourself. If you only own one you can either whore out your cat for ETH as a sire ( male ) or you can go to the market place and select a cat to sire with, paying the owner their fee and your cat becomes the mom. The latter I presume you keep the new kitten.

Mechanics wise I think 2 cats bred with specific characteristics will result in a better breed. I read something about this but not sure what it is ( basically to obtain the best kitten possible you must breed certain characteristics together ).

There is also a speed mechanic which relates to the breeding cooldown which once lapsed you can breed that specific cat again. Fast being 2minutes cooldown and then the slowest I think is 1 week. I believe for every time you breed the cooldown increases so thats why fast kittens are more expensive than the slowest ones. Also that is why you should be very careful about just breeding for the hell of it.

EDIT: Don't think of this as an investment because it's not.
 
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acidrain said:
Buy, breed and then sell. That's pretty much the just of the game.

Breeding has different levels to it. If you own 2, you can breed them yourself. If you only own one you can either whore out your cat for ETH as a sire ( male ) or you can go to the market place and select a cat to sire with, paying the owner their fee and your cat becomes the mom. The latter I presume you keep the new kitten.

Mechanics wise I think 2 cats bred with specific characteristics will result in a better breed. I read something about this but not sure what it is ( basically to obtain the best kitten possible you must breed certain characteristics together ).

There is also a speed mechanic which relates to the breeding cooldown which once lapsed you can breed that specific cat again. Fast being 2minutes cooldown and then the slowest I think is 1 week. I believe for every time you breed the cooldown increases so thats why fast kittens are more expensive than the slowest ones. Also that is why you should be very careful about just breeding for the hell of it.

EDIT: Don't think of this as an investment because it's not.
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Thanks, but I was thinking a basic explanation of Ethereum first would help, as this article assumes you know how it works and then proceeds to explain the kittie stuff. But if you don't even know the basics of Ethereum, none of the subsequent stuff makes any sense whatsoever. Maybe I misread, but I assumed that would be part of the explanation.
Hence, I kinda get it, but not really.
 
K3NS31 said:
Thanks, but I was thinking a basic explanation of Ethereum first would help...
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Explaining that in basic terms is very hard but essentially it's a platform built on blockchain technology to allow the design and deployment of decentralised apps. The applications would communicate through what's called a smart contract ( sometimes each smart contract requiring assistance from another ) which is programmed to only execute upon specific parameters, that are set by the coder, being met. The pure decentralised nature of it means that it cannot be controlled by any one person or group of people.... the rules are set in the code and are final.

Have a read here: https://www.coindesk.com/information/what-is-ethereum/
 
acidrain said:
Explaining that in basic terms is very hard but essentially it's a platform built on blockchain technology to allow the design and deployment of decentralised apps. snip...
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See, just that one sentence clears up so much. All that was required in the original article. Yes we're a tech forum, but not everyone knows what Ethereum is.
 
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