Thank you for posting

I am working hard in the Steem community to get where I want to be, I know that it takes time and effort when being in a growing community like Steem. Thanks for blog!

Interesting experiment. Burning should be streamlined, which could be possible with fixing promoted feature. If promoted feature is incentivized to use, burning could become a common practice and as a result benefit all.

Interesting to see the pending payment page. How do you handle all of this. I am not that much technically strong. It's interesting to learn all of this. :)

#1 is currently at 969.941, which is 0.024% of the reward pool.  But as I understand it, the pool is for 7 days, so really, #1 is at 0.168% for the day it pays out.

Are these the kinds of numbers you were looking for?

I dont get it
Edit, nvm intersting concept

I'll burn 10%

There was talk about burning money that was the revenue from ads. What happened to that idea. Commercials are annoying, but It did make some sense in terms of an economy that was based on other things than speculation.

Good

I could not understand the concept of the series on Steem experiment: Burn
Someone would like to explain it in some simple and easy way

I'll up this one too in a bit after I help some folks I brought on board recently.  Are you going to upvote this one?  Don't see ya on the list yet.

your post is very interesting, I like your post, because it can add insight to me, hopefully in the future can provide better postings, so I can know many things in my life, thank you very much. and also hopefully useful for other stemit friends.

interesting post!!!

@smooth, I'm supposed to be on vacation.  It's hard to put this place down.  

In a comment here you said:
>Yes the promoted feature could be improved in a number of ways.

[In this post](https://steemit.com/steemit/@nonameslefttouse/the-trending-tab-on-steemit-is-becoming-paid-programming-and-should-be-labelled-accordingly) I explain the difference between true trending content and the **paid programming** we're actually seeing under that tab.  I now believe this burning process could work alongside the solutions/suggestions I presented within that post to further the benefits of taking an honest approach to all of this.

As it stands now, we've been presented with a problem and offered a solution for a fee.  That's the oldest trick in the advertisers book.  A few more minds looking in to what I mentioned in that post could easily put a halt to exploits and abuse.

Have a good day.

Good

Proof of burn

Author reward 314.966 SBD, and 64.636 STEEM POWER for smooth/steem-experiment-burn-post-2

Sold 314.966 SBD for 482.688 STEEM on internal market

https://steemd.com/tx/9544f67b6c2070d8c862e8f62b7c24366118a615

Total burn of 64.636+482.688 = 547.324 STEEM

https://steemd.com/tx/192da72e0d2a36fdd583d67f2ebfb5974fc90124

I can't believe that as people all over the world are potentially starving and desperately working for Steem to support themselves, an initiative has been created to burn Steem out of existence.  

Is there any reason that it wouldn't be better to spread the rewards from an effort like this across underprivileged Steemians around the globe who have been scouted as worthy? 

I appreciate the concept's mission to help the reward pool's health in the long run, but this makes me sick to my stomach.  Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the mechanics or logic behind burning valuable Steem which minnows and human beings are desperate for.  

I vote for an experiment to share the Steem more fairly from a benefactor pool, not destroy it.  Thanks for your reply if you get the chance.

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i worked elegant and very useful information but i didn't got any reward.

While I understand burning Steem will add value to the "Surviving" Steem in theory.
This means anyone taking this action would rather burn the steem than use our tools to distribute it.

In a platform that a distribution problem in that too few people hold too much of the supply, I would like to hear more about the "thinking" this is a good idea, if anyone would like to spell out your thought process, I would enjoy reading it.  

I've been here a while, but find I am always learning from real discussions.

Flagging to save the Steem from burning.  :)