NFTs For Dummies. Tiana Laurence

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      To find a CryptoKitty and buy it, follow these steps:

      1 Navigate to www.cryptokitties.co/search.

      2 Browse the Kitties on the page, enter search terms at the top, or choose Kitty Type, Generation, and Cooldown.

      3 Click Next at the bottom to see more pages of Kitties.

      4 When you find a Kitty you'd like to buy, click the Buy Now button.A new page opens.

      5 Double-click the Kitty you're about to purchase.

      6 If everything seems in order, click the OK, Buy This Kitty button.You're prompted with a Dapper Labs transaction window. It asks you to set up a wallet (if you don’t have one) at www.meetdapper.com. If you decided not to get a MetaMask wallet, follow the instructions on the Dapper Labs page, and then return to ordering your Kitty.

      7 Click the Submit button to purchase the Kitty.After you purchase a Kitty, it may take a couple of minutes to show up on your profile. The Ethereum blockchain needs to record the transaction and update the blockchain with your new ownership transfer, which all depends on the Ethereum network.

      Using the Offer function

      Offers are another way to buy cats. Using the game's Offers system, players can make a bid in ETH for any Kitty they want that isn’t already up for sale. After an offer is made, the owner has three days to accept or decline before the offer expires.

      Breeding your kitties

      In CryptoKitties, you can breed to produce a new cat that is the genetic combination of its parents. If you have plans to breed a cat you want to buy, be sure to look at its pedigree. Anticipating the outcome is unknown, and the possibilities for unique and rare genetic makeups of a CryptoKitty are endless. Each cat has unique Cattributes that are visible, but certain traits can be unlocked by way of breeding. Knowing the breeding cats’ Cattributes can help you determine the likely outcomes of breeding.

One cat acts as the sire in each breeding pair and will have a recovery period before breeding again. The second cat, the dame, incubates the kitten, during which time it cannot engage in another pairing. You can breed your Kitties in two ways:

       Breed two of your own cats.

       Breed one of your cats with a public sire or dame. If your cat is the sire, you’re paid a fee by the dame’s owner.

      

Fees are involved with breeding, even if you’re breeding two of your own cats: 0.015 ETH at the time of writing but this changes with market conditions.

      Though a CryptoKitty can breed any number of times, the recovery and gestational periods increase the more they mate, so pay attention to the breed time (next to the Clock icon underneath your Kitty’s picture). The more times your prospective cat has been used to breed, the slower it is to produce offspring.

      Breed two kitties of the same generation. The kitten they produce is given a generation number that’s the highest generation of both parents plus one. For example, if you breed a Gen 4 Kitty with a Gen 5 Kitty, you get a Gen 6 cat. If you breed two Gen 10s, on the other hand, you get a Gen 11.