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Discord: Imagine a Place
- Integrating a wallet into Discord’s core product would have certain advantages for users and community leaders:
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- -Set up a Discord server and invite unlimited members in for free.
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- In 2020, Discord earned just $1.30 in Average Revenue Per User (ARPU). That would rank it last among the public social media companies by a wide margin.
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- Owning a wallet would also have advantages for Discord itself:
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- Starting an NFT project today and inviting supporters to a Slack group would be the kind of shibboleth you couldn’t recover from; the crypto equivalent of using a hotmail account, or telling everyone you use Bing as your search engine.
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- -Scammers flood Discord DMs with bogus offers
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- Last year, there were 6.7 million weekly active servers, essentially spaces with at least some conversation in a given week. This year, there are 19 million weekly active servers -- 3x YoY growth -- and the year isn’t even over yet.
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- Offensively, giving users a stake in Discord’s upside would encourage more communities to set up shop on Discord, and would serve as a retention tool against the notoriously fickle whims of the masses. It would enable and incentivize a thriving in-app economy. It would allow users to reward each other with a simple !thanks, and might even provide t... See more
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- -Discord is a centralized company.
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