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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by bendavis381 on Monday July 09, 2018 @04:11PM (#17493064)
This is a serious question as I want to make sure I'm reading this right: CryptoKitties really had only 274 users in the past 24 hours? The USV/Andreessen company?
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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by hudon on Monday July 09, 2018 @04:19PM (#17493126)
Yes, another source is here: http://www.rolldice.club/cryptokitties/

It's worth noting that at its peak when CryptoKitties transactions hogged the Ethereum network and made it barely useable, CryptoKitties had only 14k users.

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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by mockingbirdy on Monday July 09, 2018 @04:27PM (#17493178)
Some things scale horizontally, some things scale vertically. But some things scale diagonally.

If I would build a system that gets DoS'd with 14k users I would get fired faster than the latest startup burns through VC money.

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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by drcode on Monday July 09, 2018 @04:53PM (#17493335)
To be fair, there's a known solution to the cryptokitty scalability problem (a particular type of "plasma chain" tuned for nonfungible tokens) and this is being worked on and will likely see the light of day pretty soon. This of course does not solve the bigger problem: the small user base.
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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by mockingbirdy on Monday July 09, 2018 @05:00PM (#17493393)
Great. Now we just need enough spoiled rich 12yo girls and some get-rich-quick guys that bid on some imaginary kitties.
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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by Animats on Monday July 09, 2018 @07:12PM (#17494179)
Right.

I was thinking about combining CryptoKitties and Second Life type breedable animals to make collectable ponies you could go play with and show off in virtual reality.

But no.

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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by Alex3917 on Monday July 09, 2018 @07:25PM (#17494237)
274 users is actually pretty good for a crypto company. Right now FunFair is a $150M company, and they only have 15 daily users.
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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by dragosdydy on Monday July 09, 2018 @04:40PM (#17493256)
Yes... and as someone mentioned, the amount is very low compared to it's peak - https://dappradar.com/app/3/cryptokitties (you can see all time history) - on 09/12/2017 it had around 14k daily users...
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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by dmix on Monday July 09, 2018 @05:15PM (#17493475)
Even if the user counts are low it's pretty cool you can see a history of this stuff.
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