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Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by atomical on Friday October 26, 2018 @03:40PM (#18312182)
What are the most adopted blockchain apps for consumers? The only one I can think of is BAT/Brave with 5 million MAU.
Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by sidko on Friday October 26, 2018 @04:17PM (#18312423)
Only a fraction of Brave users use BAT though, so not sure it should be counted as a blockchain app. You don't need BAT to use Brave, the browser.
Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by atomical on Friday October 26, 2018 @04:32PM (#18312501)
Yes. It's early days but I'm curious as to what can be sticky. I don't think anyone has it all figured out yet.
Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by JustMatthew on Friday October 26, 2018 @04:25PM (#18312466)
Out of the so-called popular DApps listed on Coinbase Wallet, I only personally use Cent (beta.cent.co), but its user base is still quite small. Adoption has barely begun.
Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by diegocerdan on Saturday October 27, 2018 @02:39AM (#18314621)
I would argue that Maker is the most successful project on Ethereum at the moment. It's hardly categorized as a dApp because most people interact only with the DAI stablecoin token and not with an interface. Is already released on mainnet, has a solid roadmap and has no scalability problems.

https://makerdao.com

Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by nowarninglabel on Friday October 26, 2018 @03:56PM (#18312275)
Sort of depends on what you consider a consumer app. CryptoKitties and Loom Networks' ZombieBattleground and DelegateCall have some decent numbers. Then of course there is wallet software that interfaces with blockchain (e.g. Metamask), which could ask if consider a blockchain app or not.
Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by pg_bot on Friday October 26, 2018 @04:47PM (#18312588)
Your examples don't inspire a ton of confidence. It's publicly known that Cryptokitties' usage numbers fell off a cliff.[0] I've never heard of Zombie Battleground or DelegateCall before but after doing a bit of research it looks like one is a CCG and the other is a Q&A site. Neither of those products need the blockchain to function and both are going into exceptionally competitive markets against deep pocketed, competent competitors. (Artifact, Hearthstone, MTG Arena, Gwent, Quora, Stack Overflow, Yahoo Answers - ok maybe not Yahoo)

I don't think there's any evidence to support the claim that such an application exists currently. I know Brave uses BAT, but that's not really their selling point if you are to believe their own marketing.[1]

I think you'd have to be a fanatic to think that there are rosier times ahead.

[0]: https://dappradar.com/app/3/cryptokitties [1]: https://brave.com/

Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by atomical on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:49PM (#18314255)
The whole point of BAT in Brave is that it is seemless. The donations will happen automatically. What's your point?
Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by m-i-l on Friday October 26, 2018 @04:54PM (#18312634)
According to https://dappradar.com/ , CryptoKitties has only had 351 active users over the past 24 hours, which is tiny considering it is the 8th most popular dapp globally. It used to have a lot more users, in fact the users and volume comparison over time looks a little like the internet adoption curve but in reverse. Most of the dapps with higher usage are exchanges so not sure they would count as "apps for consumers". I'm sure I'm not alone in being disappointed with the way it has turned out - we were promised a "world computer" with globally distributed apps, and all we got was a lousy platform for launching s4itcoins.
Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by atomical on Friday October 26, 2018 @04:32PM (#18312504)
What do you consider decent numbers?
Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by CryptoPunk on Friday October 26, 2018 @10:53PM (#18314116)
I would count any contract on the blockchain as a Dapp, so the most widely adopted would be ERC20 contracts, which are currently executing about 160,000 transactions per day.
Re:Decrypting Crypto, from Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs (2... by atomical on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:55PM (#18314269)
We are talking 1) MAU and 2) your average consumer in this thread.