Cryptokitties Archives

Tech Jun. 17, 2018, 12:17 PM

Top investors gambled $16 million on the blockchain equivalent of Beanie Babies. Now, sales are plummeting

In March, investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures gave a total of $US12 million ($AU16.12 million) to CryptoKitties, a blockchain game for digital collectibles. According to data from blockchain analytics sites, the number of CryptoKitties transactions are a fraction of what they were in December. CryptoKitties cofounder Bryce […]

Tech May. 9, 2018, 11:16 AM

Steph Curry is auctioning off his own special edition CryptoKitties – and an Australian company is ready to cash in

NBA star Stephen Curry has signed up to become a “CryptoKitty” — and ASX-listed game maker Animoca hopes to cash in. CryptoKitties is a much-hyped game that allows players to breed and trade virtual kittens using cryptocurrency ethereum. The app flourished in the Western world at the height of cryptocurrency […]

Tech Jan. 29, 2018, 1:45 AM

Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian has a great theory on why the internet loves cats so much

Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian told Fortune in a recent interview about his love of CryptoKitties, a popular game about collecting and breeding virtual felines on the blockchain. Ohanian says that CryptoKitties has become so popular because people on the internet love cats. That’s because cat owners don’t really get to […]

Strategy Jan. 3, 2018, 10:07 AM

Nearly 200,000 people have started collecting Ethereum ‘CryptoKitties’ — which could very well become Beanie Babies of blockchain

• CryptoKitties is a colourful, feline-centric blockchain game. • Blockchain-based computing platform Ethereum, which provides the cryptocurrency ether, introduced the virtual game in late November. • Since then, the new digital felines have become enormously popular, attracting 180,000 users, according to The New York Times. Cats probably aren’t the first […]