Discords around financial or economic topics (e.g. cryptocurrencies, Steam trading) are heavily abused by scammers that use large numbers of bots to attack or p

Discords around financial or economic topics (e.g. cryptocurrencies, Steam trading) are heavily abused by scammers that use large numbers of bots to attack or phish users. I could see an argument where Discord wants to keep control over how they are fighting such abuse, and banning all non-granted API access could be one part of that.