Prospective Nitro Subscriber Lost Interest
NFTs killed my interest in my favorite game and now it's killing my interest in further supporting Discord. Putting aside the numerous scams, con artists, grifters, and money laundering that's been connected with cryptocurrency and NFTs, it's the environmental impact that has me most concerned.
According to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index, bitcoin-mining operations worldwide now use energy at the rate of nearly a hundred and twenty terawatt-hours per year. This is about the annual domestic electricity consumption of the entire nation of Sweden. That's levels of emissions setting back worldwide reduction efforts by a horrifying amount, and that's just bitcoin. It doesn't include the energy for other Cryptocurrencies, the energy required to keep track of them through blockchain, nor the levels required for the hosting/tracking of NFTs.
I've wanted to host Discord servers for friends, get Nitro to better interact in the channels I belong to, but I can't in good conscience support this move by Discord. Nor its blatantly flippant treatment of potential pushback through that eggregiously awful "survey" that was put out.
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