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❄️ ❄️ December 6, 2017 ❄️ ❄️

"No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded." ― Yogi Berra

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The Next CryptoKitties? The Blockchain Might Not Be Ready


If CryptoKitties didn't come up in every single session at Token Summit II, it came close enough.
 

But the insanely viral trading game was most often cited, not as a success, but as an example of industry challenges.

According to software developers and entrepreneurs, the world's second-largest blockchain just isn't ready to handle the buying, trading and mating of the crypto felines en masse.

As the panels proved, though, the problem is bigger than ethereum and CryptoKitties alone.

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