Going forward I will burn 15% of my posts rewards by setting @null as beneficiary.

Why I’m doing this?

Basically, I want to be proactive and provide solutions not problems.

There has been some discussion about the @burnpost and the @sbdpotato posts. In general they are trying to do a good thing, burn some STEEM and trying to provide an SBD peg. The problem that some people see in this is that they are occupying the trending page, and now we are looking for some alternative models.

@acidyo made an excellent posts here, with initiative to put @sbdpotato and @bunpost/@null as beneficiary.

This post of mine is inspired by it.

Although I will be doing things a bit simpler. I will just set @null as 15% beneficiary to my future posts, including this one. I’m not setting @sbdpotato as beneficiary, because SBD in a way is a derivate from STEEM and if STEEM price goes up the SBD will follow. Also, as mentioned for simplicity.

The ides behind this is to provide more STEEM burned and to provide worthy posts for it. Instead of whales voting on a single post without value, they can now vote on posts that have some value in them and at the same time burn some STEEM in the process. In this way we will not see the boring @burnpost and @sbdpotato posts on trending, and the goal for burning STEEM will be achieved.

Authors on the other hand will have more incentive to set null as beneficiary as some nice votes may come to them. A win win.

I’m basically experimenting with this and willing to give it a go and give up from some of my STEEM rewards, although they are not as big. It is a leap of faith so to speak, trying to make some initiative. I will be reviewing how this goes in two to three months and if there is zero effect, will probably stop. If there is some nice feedback, will increase the percentage sent to @null.

Should other people do this?

Since I’m doing it, I say yes, why not, try different things. If enough people do it there is a bigger probability this initiative to be noticed and peak up.

How to find these posts?

I’m setting the tag #nullasbeneficiary, a bit long yes but pretty much self-explanatory. If you set null as beneficiary, include the tag and hope the whales will find you 😊!

Stats on @null as beneficiary

I’m doing the monthly Burning STEEM reports for a while now and there is a clear uptrend in the STEEM burned since the HF21/22. I also include the chart on @null as beneficiary. Here it is.

Setting null as beneficiary was almost nonexistent before HF21/HF22. Ever since there is an uptrend and there is around 7 to 8k STEEM burned trough null as beneficiary.

Here is the list of accounts that burned at least 1 STEEM with @null as beneficiary in December 2019. A total of 120 of them. I will provide this list in my monthly reports on Burning STEEM in case people need to allocate the accounts that are burning STEEM in this way. Now all we need is to spread the STEEM burnt from burnpost to the others account 😊.

No	User	STEEM
1	burnpost	5,809
2	steemitblog	521
3	thevil	136
4	kadjar	81
5	jaguar.force	74
6	eco-alex	46
7	cryptoinvestsvk	46
8	clixmoney	42
9	whatsup	31
10	davidpakman	20
11	nuoviso	20
12	steemer-sayu907	19
13	rairfoundation	18
14	taskmaster4450	17
15	apostle-thomas	15
16	theouterlight	14
17	vladtepesblog	13
18	quochuy	13
19	exyle	12
20	aggroed	12
21	ospro	12
22	toufiq777	12
23	tommyrobinson	12
24	louisthomas	12
25	themarkymark	11
26	eltrompetista	11
27	atnazo	10
28	atheistrepublic	10
29	ozraeliavi	10
30	inertia	10
31	remlaps-lite	10
32	tlavagabond	10
33	bdvoter.cur	10
34	mindchop	9
35	clove71	8
36	brianoflondon	8
37	nealmcspadden	7
38	theycallmedan	7
39	build-it	7
40	equipodelta	7
41	theultimatefood	7
42	sadman88	7
43	jeffchannel	6
44	hungrypb	6
45	contrabourdon	6
46	thehipsterguru	6
47	keisy	6
48	elsiekjay	5
49	jozef230	5
50	talkingpoint	5
51	condeas	5
52	hiddenblade	4
53	marya77	4
54	alokkumar121	4
55	blocktvnews	4
56	indusdotnews	4
57	buttcoins	4
58	joshmania	4
59	joshman	4
60	revisesociology	4
61	fatherfaith	4
62	broncnutz	4
63	inspire.yourself	4
64	ura-soul	4
65	joshmansters	4
66	eugelys	4
67	arabisouri	3
68	chireerocks	3
69	yanirauseche	3
70	osakaghoul	3
71	louis88	3
72	redline-aviator	3
73	surpassinggoogle	3
74	dfacademy	3
75	dirapa	3
76	schubes	3
77	yangyanje	3
78	uyobong	3
79	bil.prag	3
80	silentscreamer	2
81	smasssh	2
82	silence-speaks	2
83	stayoutoftherz	2
84	wehmoen	2
85	emsonic	2
86	jferdous	2
87	jordangerder	2
88	gandhibaba	2
89	rozioo	2
90	jayanti.jaya	2
91	stonertv	2
92	emiliomorles	2
93	khaleelkazi	2
94	neuehorizontetv	2
95	gtpjfoodbank	2
96	carlgnash	2
97	streetstyle	2
98	colintalkscrypto	2
99	agricultural	1
100	anomadsoul	1
101	leotrap	1
102	exoelias	1
103	elima	1
104	activepatriotuk	1
105	sumit71428	1
106	masummim50	1
107	kevinli	1
108	voxmortis	1
109	remlaps	1
110	dcooperation	1
111	engineermabbas	1
112	belemo	1
113	calisthenicsdrop	1
114	technicalside	1
115	waybeyondpadthai	1
116	centre-news	1
117	enmy	1
118	fundakantoria	1
119	shharafat	1
120	navaneeth	1

15% of the reward on this post goes to @null!

All the best
@dalz