[bendavis381]

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?

[hudon]

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.

[mockingbirdy]

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.

[drcode]

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.

[mockingbirdy]

Great. Now we just need enough spoiled rich 12yo girls and some get-rich-quick guys that bid on some imaginary kitties.

[Animats]

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.

[Alex3917]

274 users is actually pretty good for a crypto company. Right now FunFair is a $150M company, and they only have 15 daily users.

[dragosdydy]

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...

[dmix]

Even if the user counts are low it's pretty cool you can see a history of this stuff.