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When you think "Discord is centralized and that's an issue", why the fuck is "oh just make a Discord cryptocurrency" your very first thought‽

Seriously you crypto types fucking never think outside of your personal bubble of cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and "blockchain technologies", not even to just peer-to-peer technologies in general.

What does decentralization **REALLY** mean? It means making the Discord server-side software and CDN software available to the public, and integrate this change in the Discord client. In the same way that Mastodon and Matrix are decentralized.

This would solve the issues of users needing to rely on Discord servers being up (which is not always the case), needing to trust the Discord servers and how they handle user data (there has been at least one known vulnerability which allowed disclosure of other user data), and needing to always follow Discord's ToS. A good case for breaking ToS on your own server (running on your own hardware), is for bug hunting and finding vulnerabilities, since you're not allowed to do it on the official Discord servers.

Please think about **REAL** decentralization before you try to just shove in cryptocurrency where it need not be. Integrating monetary transactions would be cool for Discord, and would make a lot of things easier, but I think it's more important to decentralize way before sending money comes into play. I know I wouldn't want a WeChat-style situation where the one company controls the private conversations and transactions of like millions of people.

Plus you should stop being so limited in your thoughts on making it only cryptocurrencies. It's true that it would be easier to implement, but so many more people just use PayPal or Venmo or CashApp right now, and they don't want to use a different money sending service just for Discord.

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Cryptocurrency is going to run Discord into the ground. I can't stand you moronic "decentralized" bozos. Your web3 and crypto BS is the worst thing to come out of this generation in a long, long time. Good riddance.

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