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Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by glorkk on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:26PM (#15853390)
Are there currently any alternatives to Ethereum? (turing-complete programmable cryptocurrency)
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by etr-strike on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:42PM (#15853633)
Yes: Rootstock ( https://www.rsk.co/ ). This exists as a sidechain to the bitcoin network and implements the Ethereum virtual machine. It launched on mainnet yesterday.
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by drcode on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:57PM (#15853836)
Keep in mind that rootstock currently is a federated sidechain, so it is decentralized only insofar as you consider federated cryptocurrency systems to be "decentralized" (and different folks disagree about this)
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by shazow on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:48PM (#15853717)
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by etr-strike on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @11:54PM (#15858640)
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by aerodog on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:17PM (#15854081)
eos.io just released alpha ahead of schedule https://steemit.com/eos/@eosio/eos-io-dawn-2-0-released-and-...
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by mtgx on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:21PM (#15854122)
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by anonyx69 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:22PM (#15854140)
If Tezos ever arrives it might be a viable alternative for certain use cases.
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by ActsJuvenile on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:03PM (#15855266)
Look at Tezos Github commits: https://github.com/tezos/

Most of them are shallow changes or "busy work" to show activity. I have been watching FileCoin and Tezos Github, and I wouldn't expect much from either one of them.

Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum by guiomie on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:27PM (#15854214)
NEO, Stratas, NXT and QTUM are the ones I've been following.