{"id":307,"date":"2017-12-05T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=307"},"modified":"2017-12-05T08:45:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:45:34","slug":"everyones-crazy-about-cryptokitties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Everyone&#8217;s crazy about CryptoKitties"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/12\/04\/cryptokitties-ethereum\/#lm8KPQ5qraqS\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/litho\/2138253be0654a90d7e53a7c0336302171d8bef6fafe969c4911bba8a2c612fd.png\" class=\"image-treated\" data-original=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/https3A2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F6673442Fb0e05c80-1260-4790-8410-50a66826aa47.png\" data-treated=\"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/wp-content\/uploads\/litho\/2138253be0654a90d7e53a7c0336302171d8bef6fafe969c4911bba8a2c612fd.png\" \/><\/a>(we thought it bc would change the world. instead&#8230;) There&#8217;s a new craze in the world of cryptocurrencies: kitties.\u00a0A game called CryptoKitties, built on Ethereum&#8217;s blockchain, has exploded since its launch last week, with players spending thousands of dollars worth of ether (Ethereum&#8217;s currency) on digital cats.\u00a0There&#8217;s a problem, though: The game is so popular that it&#8217;s clogging Ethereum&#8217;s network<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/12\/04\/cryptokitties-ethereum\/\">Everyone&#8217;s crazy about CryptoKitties<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(we thought it bc would change the world. instead&#8230;) There&#8217;s a new craze in the world of cryptocurrencies: kitties.\u00a0A game called CryptoKitties, built on Ethereum&#8217;s blockchain, has exploded since its launch last week, with players spending thousands of dollars worth of ether (Ethereum&#8217;s currency) on digital cats.\u00a0There&#8217;s a problem, though: The game is so popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}