Trading hub

Trading hub (or Thub) is, as of 31st December 2022, the largest Purity-related discord server of those created by community (1352 members), see this link. Purpose of the server is to exchange ingame items in a somewhat organized way (also, see more about server's economy in here). A few discord servers were referred to as "trading hub" during the long history of Purity.

### How this works (roughly)

Two players contact each other and agree on items they want to exchange. They then meet in game to make the trade happen. If both sides kept the contract, they report the trade on the server. Both players get a "point" to indicate that they have completed the trade. More points you get = more trades you completed = you are more trustworthy. After certain number of trades, you get ranks, which visually show how many trades you completed (Iron rank = 3 trades, gold = 15, diamond = 50, emerald = 100, netherite = 200 trades). On the other hand, if one of the sides broke the contract in any way, such action is called "scamming". If the scammed player can then prove that he was scammed, the other player gets banned from the Trading Hub.

### Some history

There was a need for a trading discord server since the beginning of Purity, because there are no in-game plugins to allow things like /trade. The first trading hub, known as Purity Market, was created by TipTopBop around June-August 2019. That original trading hub was self deleted by the owner, destroying records of trade from pre 2020. Capitalising on this deletion, shwmepotatosalad, otherwise known as 'Hux', and his group Chadlets founded the current server, the Trading Hub, commonly referred to as 'Hub'. There was a dilemna as there was still an old hub, a restarted Purity Market after the deletion, the two servers battling it out with propoganda campaigns that ranged from spamming server invites to messaging hundreds of new discord joins. Over the next two years however, the new trade hub owned by the Chadlets grew much faster than the old one and eventually both servers merged, resulting in the mod teams merging. On 13th April 2022, the joint Trade hub was insided and destroyed by a staff member known as Arkyyn, the event being referred to as the nuke. This resulted in the third and current iteration being created, with bots being created to reinstall all trades in the old servers, so that damage was minimal. Like the Chadlets in the previous trade hub however, a few other trading servers were created starting another competition however these servers, such as Block Bazaar and the Purity Exchange Network were quickly surpassed and surpressed by the trade hub, the hub's member count and activity posing too much of a tower to scale.

### Currency

Trades can be just exchanging random items, but most traders decided to use some sort of currency - hey, some macroeconomy stuff! In old days, the most popular currency was obsidian, but over time more and more obsidian farms appeared, and eventually it became obvious that this is no longer a good currency due to massive inflation (again some macroeconomy stuff!). Around this time Purity updated to 1.16. On 31st July 2020, a currency transition poll was created and players decided to pick netherite as their new currency, which is used to this day.