Discord Planned To Integrate Ethereum. Huge Backlash Made Them Cancel Everything
November 12 2021 - 12:03AM
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At least Discord knows where it’s standing now. And, with this
story, we know how early into the cryptocurrency game we all are.
And how misunderstood all of this is by the general public.
Discord’s founder and CEO Jason Citron hinted at possible
integration with the Ethereum ecosystem, with NFTs, and with the
incumbent Web3. And all hell broke loose. Related Reading |
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OneOf Discord fanatics spammed Citron’s answers and canceled their
subscriptions to their Nitro premium service. Their own employees
took to social media to express their discomfort. Video game
culture influencers rallied the masses and gathered hundreds of
Likes and Retweets. What were their reasons? Environmental
concerns. And they consider NFTs a scam. And that they’re ruining
video games somehow. Sight… Let’s unpack all of this. How Did
Discord Unveil Their Web3 Plans? Content creator Packy McCormick
wrote an incredibly long article about Discord’s history and how it
could evolve. Of course, it ended with cryptocurrencies, NFTs,
their own multichain wallet, and an ill-advised new token. How
could it not? It’s obvious that should be the direction that a
successful but not entirely profitable company like Discord should
go, right? The article concluded: “We strongly believe that the
company should follow its users’ pull into web3. The company’s
biggest successes to date came when it decided to build the
communications infrastructure for gamers; now, it has the
opportunity to build a more complete set of tools for this game
that we’re all playing all across the internet.” Apparently,
McCormick overestimated the crypto movement. Not everybody is
playing the game. In fact, some people hate it with a passion.
Discord’s Jason Citron replied with an image that showed some kind
of integration between the service, Metamask, and WalletConnect. It
also featured the Ethereum logo accompanied by the popular meme
phrase “probably nothing.” probably nothing
pic.twitter.com/p4P6MoNGgd — Jason Citron (@jasoncitron) November
8, 2021 The tweet received hundreds of replies. Most of them
bashing their plans, denouncing NFTs, and citing environmental
concerns. Which is really funny, if you think about it. Discord’s
logo is a videogame controller, and that community was their
original audience. And playing video games use orders of magnitude
more electricity than all of the blockchains combined. BTC price
chart on Bitbay | Source: BTC/USD on TradingView.com Are Discord
And Web3 A Match Or Not? They seem to be. If you read the article
that started it all, it’s hard to argue with its logic. McCormick
said: “The last of these gestures at Discord’s grip on web3. It has
undoubtedly become the coordination platform of choice for all
manner of projects including NFTs, DAOs, crypto investing groups,
and crypto startups. It’s genuinely startling how quickly this has
become a norm in the sector.” A huge number of DAOs and NFT
projects run their communities on Discord. This seemed like a
foolproof bet. Techcrunch even took it a step further: “With
MetaMask support, Discord could become a place where people display
their NFTs in galleries linked to user profiles or choose
“verified” avatar images, with ownership backed up through the
blockchain.” So probably nothing = actually nothing
pic.twitter.com/IlzIFSWnnL — cobie (@CryptoCobain) November 11,
2021 This is something Twitter Crypto seems to be working on
without complaints. How could this have gone so wrong? What makes
de Discord community different? McCormick asked: “What would it
look like if Bored Ape holders could buy and sell within the same
channels they host conversations? What if members of the Bankless
DAO could buy new tokens in-line with a discussion about them?”
We’ll probably never know. Related Reading | Christie’s Will
Auction Original Art From Gary Vee‘s Veefriends NFT Collection The
Aftermath People are severely uninformed about cryptocurrencies.
Those articles about the environmental risks that blockchains
supposedly pose really did a number on them. However, there’s
something else going on here. Casting a wide net, the Discord
community seems to be technologically driven and one that
appreciates art. They should be on the side of NFTs, but they are
wildly against the movement. Almost manically. This is the reaction
of a 3D artist that works for Discord: I hope leaders can humbly
listen the chorus of vehement moral disgust this teaser has already
invited. this sincerely does not have to happen.
https://t.co/JZZBI2npVs — Kevin Tang (@Yolo_Tengo) November 9, 2021
And this is another Discord employee, who also retweeted these two
terrible-terrible takes on the event: kinda cringe ngl
https://t.co/hceLj105UN — Kaara ➡️ Forge Ahead (@kaara_raven)
November 8, 2021 Where is that rage coming from? Is this just about
the environment? Because they work in a tech company, and
technology uses dirty electricity. Is this just about scams and
money laundering? Because the art world, in general, is built upon
scams and money laundering. No, there’s something else here. The
crypto world arises a rage in them that shouldn’t be ignored. Check
the replies under Citron’s tweets and you’ll see. Just remember how
many furries use your platform, and how much money furries have,and
how they almost universally hate NFTs and crypto. I would genuinely
be surprised if you could show me 5 furries without discord
accounts. You do have competition in the market. — Logan Mish 🗝️
(@Mishaniz) November 11, 2021 Speaking about Discord’s CEO, he
backpedaled his company’s whole Web3 plan with a PR friendly:
“Thanks for all the perspectives everyone. We have no current plans
to ship this internal concept. For now we’re focused on protecting
users from spam, scams and fraud. Web3 has lots of good but also
lots of problems we need to work through at our scale.” And to
drive the point home, they told Techcrunch that the screenshot came
from a hackathon: “We’re always exploring and hacking away at
things we think will improve Discord for all the communities we
serve.” Yeah, sure Discord. We believe you. Featured Image:
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