Someone Paid $170,000 For The Around Expensive Cryptokitty E'er (Eth)

Following upwardly on June's "CryptoKitty Trading Volume Collapses: Andreessen, Union Square as well as Climateer Hurt Worst"

"...For all those whose cares stimulate got been our concern,
the operate goes on, the displace endures, the promise withal lives, 

and the dream shall never die."

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Dragon is i exceptional kitty!
Blockchain-based game CryptoKitties has seen the highest merchandise book since Feb over the by 24 hours, as well as it has solely i cute picayune kitten to give cheers for it.

Someone purchased Dragon, a CryptoKitty, for 600 ETH ($170,000 approximately) on Tuesday, making her the virtually expensive kitty to locomote ever traded inward the history of the game.

Dragon broke the tape of Founder Cat #18, which sold for 253 ETH ($110,000 at the fourth dimension of sale) inward Dec final year.

On principal inspection, Dragon looks similar your average CryptoKitty. She’s got average looks as well as average attributes (called “Cattributes”). Remarkably, she’s a 9th generation kitty – before generations tend to locomote more expensive. Overall, she doesn’t check the stereotype of what an expensive CryptoKitty should await like.

This is how Dragon describes herself on the CryptoKitties website:

Salutations. I’m Dragon. I fleck Rebecca Black when I was younger, but those days are gone. Believe it or not, spying on the neighbours is seriously exhilarating. You should travail it some time. Let’s connect on ICQ.

With her looks out of the window, in that location tin locomote solely speculations on what makes her then precious. Perhaps the buyer as well as seller wanted to brand a transaction anyway, then they traded this CryptoKitty? Some speculate it could locomote money laundering....top 100 American speeches of the 20th century.
I final used it inward Dec. 2016's "Pee Power: The Dream Is Dead", on the lies underlying the hype of the Nigerian-pee electrical generator.
Additionally the four-year, European Union financed multidisciplinary ValueFromUrine Project wrapped upwardly August 31 of '16.

Previously on the CryptoKitty dream:

April 14 
"How nosotros made $100K trading CryptoKitties"
Not us, we're HODLers, this guy:... 

March 22
Matt Levine's Meow Culpa—CryptoKitties, An Exegesis
Following upwardly on Thursday's "Matt Levine Writes About CryptoKitties..."
FT Alphaville's Matthew Klein directs our attending to Mr. Levine's Fri Bloomberg View column....

March 22 
Matt Levine Writes About CryptoKitties ("this column does non necessarily reverberate the persuasion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP as well as its owners").
While nosotros haven't heard Mr. Bloomberg explicitly country that he is inward favor of CryptoKitties, it is hard to meet how he could fence alongside the comfort they choose every bit an antidote to the hurley-burley of daily life.*
Not to cite the "CryptoKitties every bit an property class" angle....

*You tin meet the development of our thinking from Nov 2017's "Kittens On the Blockchain Is NOT the Future I Was Promised" to March 7's "The Blockchain Is Just Another Way To Make Art All About Money":

At to the lowest degree I'll ever stimulate got my CryptoKitties. Besides existence cute every bit tin be, I was told:
CryptoKitties Sales Hit $12 Million, Could locomote Ethereum’s Killer App After All 

Through March 11's "Elaine Thinks About Signaling as well as Destroys My CryptoKitties Dreams":

Her slice was written a dyad weeks agone i.e. at to the lowest degree 2 cryptocurrency toll tumbles ago.
Think of a waveform, but non the smooth, soothing shape of a sinusoid. Rather intend of a imitation quasi-periodicity alongside simply plenty regularity to trigger a mirage of designing recognition, simply plenty to suck y'all in, across the effect horizon of speculation into the madness of Hunter southward Thompson:...

"Still humping the American Dream, that vision of the Big Winner somehow emerging from the final infinitesimal pre—dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino. Big strike inward Silver City. Beat the dealer as well as become domicile rich. Why not? I stopped at the Money Wheel as well as dropped a dollar on Thomas Jefferson—a $2 bill, the straightaway Freak ticket, thinking every bit ever that some idle instinct bet mightiness bear the whole affair off. But no. Just some other 2 bucks downward the tube. You bastards! No. Calm down. Learn to relish losing.... 

 -Fear as well as Loathing inward Las Vegas

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