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My friend Anshul recently told me about <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/cryptokitties" target="_blank">CryptoKitties</a>. I had heard about it clogging up the ETH pipes and causing the price to drop but had not realized what an amazing design the CryptoKitties team had realized. CryptoKitties are basically breed-able beanie babies built on top of the ethereum <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/blockchain" target="_blank">blockchain</a>. And yet, they are also so much more than that: CryptoKitties are a digital playground where programmers, geneticists, and experts in economics, bioinformatics, machine learning and game theory can come together to learn and play.