I am new on steemit, also new to Blockchain technology. This is my second post (first post was introduction post). I am neither blogger or writer. I was thinking about what to write next. Then in "Trending" section I found this amazing post Weekly Challenge [Share Your Deep Thoughts on dApps] by @sndbox. I show some old post of @sndbox & they are really working for blockchain (I mean adding value to this platform).
Honestly at first I didn't know what exactly dApps are. Then I searched on Google and find out I have used dApps but I was not aware about the term "dApps". With Steemit I also made accounts on DTube, steepshot, busy, DSound, DTube & DLive. These all are steemit dApps (dlive moved to another platform now). As this post needed to read about dApps (made on other platforms ), so I started to search more about this.
What are dApps ?
Decentralized applications (dApps) are applications that run on a P2P network of computers rather than a single computer. dApps, have existed since the advent of P2P networks. They are a type of software program designed to exist on the Internet in a way that is not controlled by any single entity.
- Decentralized applications don’t necessarily need to run on top of a blockchain network. BitTorrent, Popcorn Time, BitMessage, Tor, are all traditional dApps that run on a P2P network, but not on a Blockchain (which is a specific kind of P2P network).
- As opposed to simple smart contracts, in the classic sense of Bitcoin, that sends money from A to B, dApps have an unlimited number of participants on all sides of the market.
If an app doesn’t meet all of these criteria, then it is not a DApp:
- Open Source – Source code of app is available to all.
- Decentralized – Uses a blockchain-like cryptographic technology.
- Incentive – App has crypto-tokens/digital assets for fueling itself.
- Algorithm/Protocol – Generates tokens and has an inbuilt consensus mechanism.
I am going to discuss about CryptoKitties.
CryptoKitties-Collect and breed digital cats
What is CryptoKitties?
CryptoKitties is blockchain based game - according to what I read this was the first game on the blockchain. This was released on th November 2017. CryptoKitties is built on the Ethereum network.This is amazing, as I never heard before that people have build games on blockchain. I think this is the great way, with games we can see blockchain growing and by games people will know about blockchain.
CryptoKitties are kind of cryptocurrencies, like cryptocurrencies are mine on blockchain same way CryptoKitties born on Blockchain network. We can buy them, sell them and HOLD them like cryptocurrency. Each CryptoKittie is unique in style, look and all. CryptoKitties are like cryptocurrency and it work like the same - it's 100% owned by you -no one replicate the same kitties and no one destroy it.
One more amazing thing is you can combine 2 kitties and create new kitties - it's like we upgrading it with combination of 2 kitties.
