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.
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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...