A week ago I found Hive account@smooth's burn experiment - which consist of sending the reward from the posts to the Hive account@null account where they are made into nothing (which they like all money somehow were already).

(From now on it will be happening here: Hive account@burnpost )

I understand the concept - which can be summed up to: burn Steem to lower awards in a time of excessive rewards and lower inflation a little for the common good of the Steemit community - but I also like this thing about burning money just out of sheer monetari-pyromania and because it resembles sacred offering to the Gods, just like you do in the East.

It is probably therefore I returned a couple of times to see how it went with the cremation.

The only thing that bothered me was that the posts seemed a bit colourless (always the aesthetic angle, right?), so I made a small digital painting to add a bit of colour to the sacred crypto fire.

The image is now used in the new account where the burning will take place:

Hive account@burnpost

Whether to let one of your votes burn or not is very much up to you and your ideas about what is best for Steemit. I vote "by hand" and tries to support as many good artists and bloggers as I can, but I have voted a few times just to satisfy my virtual pyromania.