Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum
by glorkk on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:26PM
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Are there currently any alternatives to Ethereum? (turing-complete programmable cryptocurrency)
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Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum
by etr-strike on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @12:42PM
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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
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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
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s/mainnet/testnet/ according to https://media.rsk.co/announcement-upcoming-rsk-testnet-reset...
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum
by etr-strike on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @11:54PM
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No, it's currently running on mainnet: https://media.rsk.co/getting-started-with-bamboo-rsk-mainnet...
Re:CryptoKitties craze slows down transactions on Ethereum
by aerodog on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:17PM
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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 anonyx69 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:22PM
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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
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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.