Discord CEO says 'no plan' to add teased crypto support

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Discord "have no electric current plans to ship" cryptocurrency integration for the popular chat platform. This according to a tweet from Discord founder and CEO Jason Citron, who had before prompted a substantial backlash by hinting that such integration was in the works.

On November 8th, Citron responded to a Twitter user with a screenshot showing MetaMask and Wallet Connect integration within Discord. Both those services offer means of connecting to cryptocurrency wallets or so-chosen decentralised apps.

The tweet was met with near-instant backlash on Twitter, with 4.6k repsonses and 6.7k quote tweets at the time of writing. Many of the responders said they had instantly cancelled their Nitro subscription; Nitro is Discord's premium service which costs $10 a month. The following mean solar day, Citron referred to the feature as "pre-release."

Fast forwards ii more days and apparently plans take inverse:

Thank you for all the perspectives everyone. Nosotros 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 adept but also lots of problems we need to work through at our scale. More soon.
— Jason Citron (@jasoncitron) Nov 11, 2021

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"Thank you for all the perspectives everyone," writes Citron in response to his original tweet. "We accept no current plans to send this internal concept. For now nosotros're focused on protecting users from spam, scams and fraud. Web3 has lots of proficient but also lots of issues nosotros need to piece of work through at our scale. More soon."

"Web3" has been getting used more and more frequently recently to refer to the drove of crypto-backed technologies, and the efforts of crypto bros to jam market economies into every remaining cleft of the internet. The same wave of nonsense is besides flooding videogames, with the CEOs of Take-Two, EA and Ubisoft all discussing the future of NFTs and "play-to-earn" games this month.

I am glad that, for now at to the lowest degree, privately endemic companies can be pressured into bankroll away from crypto and NFTs past an online coalition of Twitter users and angry furries. Good work, everyone.