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distant promise. Other blockchain applications
platforms (like Ethereum) were practically unusable
because of a lot of factors.

Blockchain platforms were too slow. A transaction on
the Bitcoin network would take 60 minutes before it
gets confirmed. On Ethereum, it takes 6 minutes.

Blockchain platforms could not process a lot of
transactions and if a lot of people tried to use the
network at the same time, the network would be
jammed. This is exactly what happened in 2017 when
a popular blockchain game called CryptoKitties
clogged the Ethereum blockchain as people were
rushing to play the game. Ethereum could only
process 15 transactions per seconds. In other to put
an application like Facebook on a blockchain, that
blockchain needs to be able to process millions of
transactions per second and that is what EOS
promises to achieve.

Users also had to spend money on transaction fees to
carry out simple actions on a dApp. If you were
playing a game on Ethereum, you would have to
spend money on fees every time you make an action

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