Anyway, this is incredible.
All of which begs the question, why am I a fan of the game? There’s the fact that I feel now like I’ve invested a couple grand in the game ... but that’s my irrational brain again. Some slightly more rational reasons include that working with the community to crack the genome and build tools to help make smart breeding and buying/selling choices has been a ton of fun and very educational. Also just deep diving into the game mechanics in a way I couldn’t have truly appreciated from the outside looking in has been a revelation: many people complain that this is not much of a “game,” and of course they’re right, but there’s still a ton of careful consideration that went into developing each aspect of what exists, including how new genes are gated through release of new kitties and a breeding algorithm with special mutations that require particular gene pairs to breed. And then there are fancies, which a cat becomes when it meets certain minimum requirements such as being Cloudwhite, with a Scarlet pattern, and having a beard along with a hidden “wild” trait: all of which, when combined on the same kitty, produces a (relatively) valuable Santaclaws kitty.
Also, I really don’t need a new crappy old car. I’ve already got one of those. And man those kitties really are adorable sometimes.
hyper ledger is a (generic) term for a ledger for the internet blockchain era :-).
Copycats uses the ledger-lite (open source) library [1] - the tagline reads: hyper ledger book for the distributed blockchain internet era; add your transactions one block at a time; transfer crypto(currencie)s or collectibles (e.g. kitties or cats) and balance the accounts (that is, who owns what etc.)