【翻译】销售额高达1200万美元的CryptoKitties能否成为杀手级的以太坊应用

CryptoKitties，是一款基于以太坊区块链上的虚拟养猫游戏，目前市场上已经超过1200万美元的销售额。

从本质上讲，CryptoKitties 是一个类似Tamagotchi的游戏，作为在Ethereum协议之上启动的分布式应用程序而开发。每个虚拟电子猫代表一个独特的密码资产，它的所有权不可更改，因为它被集成到不可更改的以太坊区块链中。

根据Kitty Sales的数据，CryptoKitties平台上最罕见的虚拟猫中有五只售价超过10万美元，最贵的虚拟小猫售价约为12万美元。一些分析师和研究人员质疑这些虚拟小猫的价值，以及平台本身的续存。

虽然绝大多数CryptoKitties评论家认为该平台是一个简单的虚拟电子猫游戏，但知名风险投资商Andreessen Horowitz合作伙伴和Earn.com首席执行官Balaji Srinivasan解释说，CryptoKitties已经在区块链上展示了一个去中心化的国际数字资产交易。他认为，游戏已经证明，资产可以在完全没有中间人参与的情况下互相交易。

CryptoKitties使用相同机制和技术，数字资产可以通过分布式平台无缝对接。如果将CryptoKitties平台作为点对点数字资产交易进行评估，则该技术的用例将比简单的收藏品游戏更具吸引力。

从长远来看，投资者和交易者将能够在以太坊网络上使用分布式应用交换数字资产。他们将不再依靠易受各种因素干扰的的中介，并配备严格的反洗钱政策。

而且，比特币和加密货币市场已经证明了内在价值的概念是有缺陷的。价值是主观的，在全球市场上没有任何资产或货币本质上是有价值的。

以太坊联合创始人Vitalik Buterin以Leonardo Da Vinci的Salvator Mundi拍卖为例。达芬奇的油画被佳士得以4.5亿美元的价格卖给沙特。这幅画可能对这位画家的买主沙特王子巴德·本·阿卜杜拉·本·穆罕默德·本·法汉汗·沙特达价值4.5亿美元，但对其他人来说，这幅画可能并不值得。“很好地说明，区块链的价值远远超出了，不使用银行或政府就会被银行或政府关闭的应用程序”。

CryptoKitties平台上的数字猫的价值是基于稀缺性和匿名性的，就像市场上其他所有加密货币都有固定的发行量一样。最重要的是，CryptoKitties已经展现了数字资产去中心化交易的可能性，可以在金融等主要行业进行更大规模的实施。

原文：

CryptoKitties, the Ethereum-based digital kitten collectibles game, has processed more than $12 million in sales on its decentralized marketplace.

Essentially, CryptoKitties is a Tamagotchi-like game developed as a decentralized application (dapp) launched on top of the Ethereum protocol. Each digital kitten represents a unique crypto asset and the ownership of it cannot be altered, as it is integrated onto the immutable Ethereum Blockchain.

Expensive kitties

According to Kitty Sales, five of the rarest digital kittens on the CryptoKitties platform were sold for over $100,000 each, with the most expensive digital kitten being sold at around $120,000. Some analysts and researchers have questioned the value of these digital kittens, and whether the platform itself is sustainable in the long-term.

Something even bigger

While the vast majority of CryptoKitties critics perceive the platform as a simple collectibles game, prominent venture capital investor, Andreessen Horowitz partner, and Earn.com CEO Balaji Srinivasan explained that CryptoKitties has demonstrated frictionless international trading of digital assets on a Blockchain at a large-scale. He believes the game has proven that assets can be traded in a decentralized manner without the involvement of intermediaries.

Using the same mechanism and technology that CryptoKitties uses, a digital asset can be exchanged seamlessly, through a decentralized platform. If the CryptoKitties platform is evaluated as a peer-to-peer digital assets exchange, the technology’s use case becomes more intriguing than a simple collectibles game.

In the long-term, investors and traders will be able to exchange digital assets using decentralized applications on the Ethereum network. They will no longer have to rely on centralized platforms that are vulnerable to a wide array of threats and are equipped with strict Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policies.

No such thing as intrinsic value

Moreover, Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market have proven that the concept of intrinsic value is flawed. Value is subjective and no asset or currency in the global market is intrinsically worth a particular value.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin provided the auction of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi as an example. The painting by Da Vinci was auctioned off to a Saudi price at $450 million, by Christie’s. The painting could represent $450 million in value to Saudi Prince Bader bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Farhan Al Saud, the buyer of the painting, but to others, the painting may not be worth that amount.

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Crypto (kitties) is a reflection of the world at large.

— Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin) December 9, 2017

Buterin further emphasized that CryptoKitties:

“Illustrates very well that the value of a Blockchain extends far beyond applications that would literally get shut down by banks or governments if they did not use one.”

The value of the digital kittens on the CryptoKitties platform is based on rarity and scarcity, like every other cryptocurrency in the market with a fixed monetary supply. On top of that, CryptoKitties has demonstrated the possibility of frictionless and seamless trading of digital assets, which could be implemented at a larger scale in major industries such as finance.

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