{"id":476199,"date":"2021-11-12T05:03:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T05:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=476199"},"modified":"2021-11-12T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T12:04:18","slug":"discord-planned-to-integrate-ethereum-huge-backlash-made-them-cancel-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/ethereum\/discord-planned-to-integrate-ethereum-huge-backlash-made-them-cancel-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord Planned To Integrate Ethereum. Huge Backlash Made Them Cancel Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least Discord knows where it\u2019s 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\u2019s founder and CEO Jason Citron hinted at possible integration with the Ethereum ecosystem, with NFTs, and with the incoming Web3. And all hell broke loose.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Related Reading | <a href=\"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/top-stars-line-up-to-support-environmentally-friendly-nft-platform-oneof\/\">Top Stars Line Up To Support Environmentally Friendly NFT Platform OneOf<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Discord fanatics spammed Citron\u2019s replies and canceled their subscriptions to their Nitro premium service. Discord&#8217;s 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 that they consider NFTs a scam, that&#8217;s also ruining video games somehow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sight\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s unpack all of this.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How Did Discord Unveil Their Web3 Plans?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Content creator Packy McCormick wrote <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.notboring.co\/p\/discord-imagine-a-place\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">an incredibly long article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about Discord\u2019s history and how it could evolve. Of course, the plan ended with cryptocurrencies, NFTs, their own multichain wallet, and an ill-advised new token. How could it not? It\u2019s obvious that should be the direction that a successful but not entirely profitable company like Discord should go, right? The article concluded:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe strongly believe that the company should follow its users\u2019 pull into web3. The company\u2019s 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\u2019re all playing all across the internet.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apparently, McCormick overestimated the crypto movement. Not everybody is playing the game. In fact, some people hate it with a passion. Discord\u2019s Jason Citron replied with an image that showed some kind of integration between the service, Metamask, and WalletConnect. It also featured the Ethereum logo. The popular meme phrase \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">probably nothing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d completed the tweet.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">probably nothing <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p4P6MoNGgd\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/p4P6MoNGgd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jason Citron (@jasoncitron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasoncitron\/status\/95693570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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\u2019s logo is a videogame controller, and that community was their original audience. And playing video games uses orders of magnitude more electricity than all of the blockchains combined.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-476201 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wncen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ETHUSD_2021-11-12_01-49-32.png?resize=460%2C257\" alt=\"ETHUSD price chart for 11\/12\/2021 - TradingView\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\"><\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center\">ETH price chart on Currency.com | Source: ETH\/USD on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/ETHUSD\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">TradingView.com<\/a><\/pre>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are Discord And Web3 A Match Or Not?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They seem to be. If you read the article that started it all, it\u2019s hard to argue with its logic. McCormick said:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe last of these gestures at Discord\u2019s 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\u2019s genuinely startling how quickly this has become a norm in the sector.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A huge number of DAOs and NFT projects run their communities on Discord. This seemed like a foolproof bet. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/11\/09\/discord-nfts-metamask-crypto\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Techcrunch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> even took it a step further:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWith MetaMask support, Discord could become a place where people display their NFTs in galleries linked to user profiles or choose \u201cverified\u201d avatar images, with ownership backed up through the blockchain.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoCobain\/status\/49726978<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is something <a href=\"https:\/\/wncen.com\/crypto\/the-new-twitter-crypto-division-opens-up-a-few-questions-heres-what-we-know\/\">Twitter Crypto<\/a> seems to be working on without complaints. How could this have gone so wrong? What makes the Discord community different? McCormick asked:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat 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?\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ll probably never know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>Related Reading | <a href=\"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/ethereum\/christies-auction-art-gary-vee\/\">Christie\u2019s Will Auction Original Art From Gary Vee\u2018s Veefriends NFT Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Aftermath<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People are severely uninformed about cryptocurrencies. Those articles about the environmental risks that blockchains supposedly pose really did a number on them. However, there\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the reaction of a 3D artist that works for Discord:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I hope leaders can humbly listen the chorus of vehement moral disgust this teaser has already invited. this sincerely does not have to happen.<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JZZBI2npVs\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/JZZBI2npVs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Tang \/ @ktang.bsky.social (@Yolo_Tengo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yolo_Tengo\/status\/98776066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And this is another Discord employee, who also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/outstarwalker\/status\/35180806\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">retweeted these two terrible-terrible takes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the event:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaara_raven\/status\/93332227<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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\u2019s something else here. The crypto world arises a rage in them that shouldn\u2019t be ignored. Check the replies under Citron\u2019s tweets and you\u2019ll see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mishaniz\/status\/08231170<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking about Discord\u2019s CEO, he backpedaled his company\u2019s whole Web3 plan with a PR friendly: \u201cT<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">hanks for all the perspectives everyone. We have no current plans to ship this internal concept. For now we&#8217;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.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d And to drive the point home, they told Techcrunch that the screenshot came from a hackathon: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019re always exploring and hacking away at things we think will improve Discord for all the communities we serve.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yeah, sure Discord. We believe you.<\/span><\/p>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center\">Featured Image: Discord's Ethereum plans <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jasoncitron\/status\/95693570\" rel=\"nofollow\">from this tweet<\/a> | Charts by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">TradingView<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least Discord knows where it\u2019s 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\u2019s founder and CEO Jason Citron hinted at possible integration with the Ethereum ecosystem, with NFTs, and with the incoming Web3. And all hell broke loose.\u00a0 Related Reading | Top Stars Line Up To Support Environmentally Friendly NFT Platform OneOf Discord fanatics spammed Citron\u2019s replies and canceled their subscriptions to their Nitro premium service. Discord&#8217;s 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 that they consider NFTs a scam, that&#8217;s also ruining video games somehow. Sight\u2026 Let\u2019s unpack all of this. How Did Discord Unveil Their Web3 Plans? Content creator Packy McCormick wrote an incredibly long article about Discord\u2019s history and how it could evolve. Of course, the plan ended with cryptocurrencies, NFTs, their own multichain wallet, and an ill-advised new token. How could it not? It\u2019s obvious that should be the direction that a successful but not entirely profitable company like Discord should go, right? The article concluded: \u201cWe strongly believe that the company should follow its users\u2019 pull into web3. The company\u2019s 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\u2019re all playing all across the internet.\u201d Apparently, McCormick overestimated the crypto movement. Not everybody is playing the game. In fact, some people hate it with a passion. Discord\u2019s Jason Citron replied with an image that showed some kind of integration between the service, Metamask, and WalletConnect. It also featured the Ethereum logo. The popular meme phrase \u201cprobably nothing\u201d completed the tweet.\u00a0 probably nothing pic.twitter.com\/p4P6MoNGgd &mdash; 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\u2019s logo is a videogame controller, and that community was their original audience. And playing video games uses orders of magnitude more electricity than all of the blockchains combined. ETH price chart on Currency.com | Source: ETH\/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\u2019s hard to argue with its logic. McCormick said: \u201cThe last of these gestures at Discord\u2019s 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\u2019s genuinely startling how quickly this has become a norm in the sector.\u201d 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:\u00a0 \u201cWith MetaMask support, Discord could become a place where people display their NFTs in galleries linked to user profiles or choose \u201cverified\u201d avatar images, with ownership backed up through the blockchain.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoCobain\/status\/49726978 This is something Twitter Crypto seems to be working on without complaints. How could this have gone so wrong? What makes the Discord community different? McCormick asked: \u201cWhat 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?\u201d We\u2019ll probably never know. Related Reading | Christie\u2019s Will Auction Original Art From Gary Vee\u2018s 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\u2019s 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 &mdash; Kevin Tang \/ @ktang.bsky.social (@Yolo_Tengo) November 9, 2021 And this is another Discord employee, who also retweeted these two terrible-terrible takes on the event: https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaara_raven\/status\/93332227 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\u2019s something else here. The crypto world arises a rage in them that shouldn\u2019t be ignored. Check the replies under Citron\u2019s tweets and you\u2019ll see. https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mishaniz\/status\/08231170 Speaking about Discord\u2019s CEO, he backpedaled his company\u2019s whole Web3 plan with a PR friendly: \u201cThanks for all the perspectives everyone. We have no current plans to ship this internal concept. For now we&#8217;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.\u201d And to drive the point home, they told Techcrunch that the screenshot came from a hackathon: \u201cWe\u2019re always exploring and hacking away at things we think will improve Discord for all the communities we serve.\u201d Yeah, sure Discord. We believe you. 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