REIGNING CATS 

Ethereum price today – is ETH worth as much as Bitcoin and what are CryptoKitties?

(Players can buy and sell virtual cats for as much as $10,000 on the new digital currency – with their rather valuable 'Cattributes')

What are CryptoKitties?

CryptoKitties, dubbed the next big cryptocurrency, is a new application built on the Ethereum chain.

It was launched on Thanksgiving and became available for transactions in December.

Players can buy and sell virtual cats for as much as $10,000, in a bid make hundreds of thousands more in real value.

Users purchase their collectable kitties with Ethereum, and then breed them to create more kitties.

CRYPTOKITTIES

Virtual kittens available for purchase on Ethereum's blockchain.

Is the cryptocurrency as valuable as Bitcoin?

CryptoKitties has become hugely popular since its launch.

Currently, it makes up around 4 per cent of all Ethereum transactions worldwide, it has already made $1.3million in sales.

Bitcoin has went against all odds this year.

After experts deemed it almost useless, the currency is now rocketing in value.

Peter Atwater, who studies market sentiment and heads Financial Insyghts, believes CryptoKitties can prosper.

He said: "The popularity of virtual cats fits the euphoria we see elsewhere in the crypto-currency space. It feels very reminiscent of the Candy Crush craze that helped propel the King Entertainment IPO back at the peak of the 'Unicorn' era in mid-2014."

CyrptoKitties developers believe it will thrive because unlike Bitcoin, players will still have the value of their kitties secured on the Ethereum blockchain, even if the game and its creators disappear.

But there are risks with this cryptocurrency. Each time traffic to the network rises, CryptoKitties experiences a transaction backlog, so kitty fans are forced to wait for their new pets to be issued - which could affect how much money they earn.

Since the cryptocurrency is still in its infancy, its value is extremely volatile. Experts urge users to only invest money that they can afford to lose.

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