Discord has been forced to drop its plans of integration with Ethereum based NFTs following strong criticism from a significant number of its user base.
The pushback started after Discord’s founder and CEO Jason Citron tweeted with a screenshot of the app’s user settings page that displayed an ETH logo and option to connect digital wallets such as MetaMask and Wallet Connect.
Citron was then atacked with thousands of comments calling him to abandon the plans along with users threatening to cancel its Nitro subscriptions. The crypto-skeptics asserted that NFTs are a Ponzi scheme and damaging to the environment due to the amount of energy consumption used to mine cryptocurrencies.
Despite Discord being a commonly used app amongst the crypto community with NFT projects in particular using the platform to build communities it appears that the gaming contingent (among others) using the platform are not so fond of crypto.
