Burn coins are the process by which crypto miners, on high-powered computers, deliver tokens to a specific address – where private keys are kept that no one can steal. Simply put, it removes tokens from the circulating supply by the user to slow the rate of coin inflation or reduce the circulating collection of coins. It is also known as Proof-of-Burn, a variant of Proof-of-Work.
If all of the above sounds familiar to you, it resembles the concept of a publicly-traded company initiating a regular share buyback program (aka common stock). If that company uses cash to redeem a portion of its ordinary shares, the number of shares outstanding in the market will decrease. That way, the number of shares outstanding will become scarcer than before, making their value likely to skyrocket.
Moreover (at least for publicly traded companies), earnings can be improved from each share because they divide net earnings by fewer shares in circulation.
The decrease in the supply of coins in the market increases investors’ demand for tokens (according to the law of supply and demand). In other words, the fewer tokens available on the network, the higher their exchange rate will be. This approach is known as the downside mechanism, which aims to increase the value of the cryptocurrency as the upstream supply increases with the inflation mechanism. That’s why most projects limit the number of cryptocurrencies issued to increase their importance.
Burning coins also makes the project more attractive to investors in the long term because the value of the coins has guaranteed growth.
Burn coins can solve inadvertent errors made by the project. The misclassification occurs due to the higher than expected number of coins or the creation of invalid tokens due to technical errors or coins issued unsuitable for trading.
Burning occurs simply by sending them to a special address that cannot be withdrawn, ensuring that unwanted excesses can be safely disposed of.
The projects are limited to the number of coins sold to raise capital in the initial ICO period. However, this Coin does not sell out in some cases, and the project owner can sell it to increase profits. However, the best treatment is to burn excess tokens, which can avoid allegations that the project has additional purposes other than business.
Instead of paying dividends directly to shareholders, the owners of the projects can reward shareholders with tokens. These shareholders will burn the coins received to increase the value of their assets because burning the tokens will increase their value due to the shortage of artificial supply in circulation.
In summary, the burning of coins aims to reduce the inflation mechanism to increase the project’s value and attract investors’ interest in the long term with a significant investment gap. They do not mean burning assets but, on the contrary, increasing the value of coins.
To remove coins from the market, developers and mining servers can send large amounts of coins to specialized addresses without a private key. Therefore, no one can retrieve that amount of coins for later use, which is considered to disappear permanently.
Valid: Total number of coins – Number of coins burned > 0 (Remaining amount of coins is greater than 0 – Invalid: Total number of coins – Number of coins burned ≤ 0 (Remaining amount of coins is less than or equal to 0)
If valid, then the specified amount of coins will be excluded from the wallet and permanently canceled.
According to the law of supply and demand, the fewer Tokens in the market, the higher the value. Burning coins makes the project more attractive to investors in the short term because the coins have guaranteed growth value.
Burning coins is the way to solve errors such as:
The shareholders own the Token by purchase or Airdrop. If tokens are burned away will create a scarce supply, thereby helping investors increase the value of their assets
Some investors see the burning of coins as a signal that crypto developers are looking for ways to protect investors from their tokens. But if you consider the burning of coins a positive thing, it can become a mistake.
The biggest problem with coin burning is the assumption that the number of tokens in circulation will decrease, which means that a virtual currency will rise in price. But reality shows that the circulation of tokens looks pretty loose and often challenging to identify.
The most significant risk is to see coin burning as a positive event as it can increase token value.
Bitcoin is an example of why burning coins may not work out as expected. Some analysts think that the limited quantity, at most 21 million BTC, will help ensure the value of BTC, and its price is very high now, no one is financially strong enough to be able to carry out the burning. Moreover, many other coins are created based on BTC through the hard fork process, such as bitcoin cash (BCH), bitcoin gold (BCG), etc. Therefore, thinking about the scarcity of BTC is not practical.
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