Wow, you built all this from scratch in a 36-hour hackathon? How much experience did you have with Ethereum?
Please do Pokemon next. It's about time I get some respect for my shiny Mudkip.
> Challenge 1: Solid grey fur pattern + no tail + teeth (1st place - Cat #105, 2nd place - Cat #135, 3rd place - Cat #177)
What does this mean? Has cat #105 already won? I thought it wouldn't start until late November.
In all seriousness, this seems useful as an educational tutorial on how smart contracts work.
Hi all, trying to fulfill requests for the kitties! We got over 100 while we were on the plane back from Waterloo.
Finally, the killer app for blockchain tech.
I knew it would be porn or cats.
And cryptocurrency/blockchain enthusiasts tell me it's not a hype train and/or bubble!
figures 3 and 4 are swapped?
Will I have to buy ether to participate in this?
We’re all doomed.
mining cats, thats finally some useful blockchain tech, has to be first for everything
Relevant SMBC:
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I guess attending a real hackathon was a little too hard, so you went for the meme. Congrats. I hope the photo-op with Vitalik or whatever was worth it, because that's 36 hours you're never going to get back. Solidity and (g)eth are a joke, and so is your testnet.
Also, it would be nice if people stopped plastering 'crypto' as a prefix to their shitty tech. Cryptography is a highly respectable academic field, and deserves far better than to be associated with these "hackathons".
Just call it a web app hosted on AWS as a front end to a Go binary next time, thanks.
tldr;
Shut up and take my money!
This is, of course, pretty cool. But I don't really share much enthusiasm for the blockchain. It reminds me of Bit Torrent in the early 2000s. Sure, it had a decent impact on the Internet, but not really as revolutionary as everyone was hyping it to be.
Smart contracts are cool, but it's nothing you couldn't achieve with any other decentralized protocol. The only interesting part of cryptocurrencies (imo) is the ledger, and from what I've seen, the BTC ledger is becoming a bit unwieldly. ETH will probably follow suit.