What does COIN BURN mean?

What does COIN BURN mean?

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Coin burn means sending some of the source cryptocurrency to a public address from which these specific coins can never be spent, because the private keys of such an address are not available. This public address must be accessible in the blockchain so that anyone can view such a transaction.

Coin burn typically has following such objectives as:

• To create new tokens or coins (proof-of-burn algorithm)
• For awarding coin holders or tokens
• To destroy unsold tokens or coins after ICO

So, the proof-of-burn algorithm is a method of distributed consensus and an alternative to proof-of-work and proof-of-stack. The idea is that the miners/participants should show evidence that they burned some coins, i.e. sent them to a reliably inaccessible address. This consumes no resources other than the base asset being burned.

Consider the first goal of coin burn – how this algorithm is used to create new tokens or coins. It is implemented, for example, in the crypto Counterparty (XCP). XCP was neither minted nor sold to ICO.

Rather, it appeared using the proof-of-burn method. This means that a certain amount of bitcoin (BTC) was sent to an unavailable address, and in exchange for these BTCs, Counterparty (XCP) tokens were generated in a block chain of bitcoin. You can see this by clicking on the XCP Proof-of-Burn link.

This was done to avoid pre-mining or ICO, and to reuse energy that had already been spent on Bitcoin mining.

Because BTCs have been burned, they will never be spent again, giving XCP some value. This method of coin production also provides a fair and equal opportunity for all (including the project founder).

The next use case burn is for awarding token/coin holders

Coin burn or burning coins by sending them to an inaccessible address is applied by various crypto currencies. This is done to create an economic deficit to benefit from this asset simply by owning the name. Such a method was developed because rules in some countries, such as the United States, prevent different crypto currencies from paying the equivalent of dividends as rewards to asset holders.

Therefore, we have created another way to reward our investors, and it is to create a supply deficit, hence an increase in demand, which should be reflected in the valuation of the price of each token or coin held by the investor.

Binance uses this method every quarter for BNB.

The next point where coin burn is used is to destroy unsold tokens/coins after ICO. This is done to maintain fair play.

Typically, the price of a coin/token after ICO rises. And in a scenario where not all coins/tokens are placed through ICO, this gives the company a certain amount of free money they can get by selling the remaining coins/tokens on the stock exchange at a high price. To avoid this scenario, unsold coins/tokens are sent to an inaccessible address.

The Neblio team applied exactly this method when it burned unsold NEBL tokens.

Kevin R Smith

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