There is a difference between owning something because you hope its price goes up and participating in something because you genuinely believe in what it can become.
For me, MemeHive has always been about the second.
I have been accumulating MEME since 2023.
Not for a few weeks.
Not because of a sudden trend.
Not because someone convinced me that it would become the next big thing overnight.
I have accumulated MEME because I believe that memes are more important to internet culture than most people realize, and I believe that communities built around that culture deserve infrastructure that they can actually participate in and own.
Today, according to the MemeHive richlist, my account, 
My current numbers are approximately:
20,299,546 MEME staked
16,397 MEME liquid
20,315,943 MEME total
With a maximum MEME supply of 250 million tokens, my position now represents approximately 8.13% of the entire maximum supply.
And I am still accumulating.
I have no intention of abandoning the ecosystem I have spent years participating in.
But today, I want to do something different.
Starting July 19, 2026, I am beginning a personal experiment.
For the next 30 days, I will burn 100% of the MEME rewards I personally earn through my activity on Hive and MemeHive.
Every MEME reward that qualifies under this campaign will be permanently removed from my possession.
I will not stake it.
I will not sell it.
I will not trade it.
I will not add it to my existing position.
I will burn it.
And at the end of the 30 days, I will publish the results for everyone to see.
Why Am I Doing This?
The obvious question is:
Why would someone who has spent years accumulating MEME suddenly start burning the MEME they earn?
The answer is simple.
Because accumulating and burning do not necessarily represent opposite beliefs.
My existing MEME position represents my long-term commitment to the ecosystem.
The MEME I burn during this campaign represents something else.
It represents participation.
It represents experimentation.
And most importantly, it represents a contribution to an ecosystem that I want to see continue developing.
I have accumulated MEME since 2023 because I believe in what MemeHive represents.
I believe memes are a legitimate form of digital culture.
I believe creators deserve communities where their work can survive beyond the lifespan of an algorithmic feed.
I believe curators play an important role in discovering and rewarding those creators.
And I believe decentralized communities can become something much larger than the platforms we currently use to access them.
That philosophy has influenced much of what I have been writing about recently.
I have written about why communities need homes that cannot simply be erased.
I have explored the idea of Digital Nations and how online communities may eventually evolve into something resembling digital civilizations.
Through the Baby Lady Educational Essays, I have explored why some memes survive while countless others disappear.
All of these subjects eventually return to the same fundamental question:
What happens when people stop treating online communities as disposable?
MemeHive is one small experiment in answering that question.
And this 30-day burn is another experiment within it.
The 30-Day MEME Burn
Beginning today, I am committing to burn 100% of the MEME rewards I personally earn during the next 30 days that fall within this campaign.
The purpose is not to create artificial activity.
It is not to manipulate the system.
And it is certainly not to create meaningless transactions just so I can claim a larger burn number at the end.
I intend to continue participating in MemeHive the way I normally participate.
I will continue discovering content.
I will continue curating creators.
I will continue voting.
I will continue publishing.
The difference is what happens to the MEME rewards I personally receive.
Instead of adding those rewards to the position I have spent years building, I will remove them from my possession through the burn mechanism used for this campaign.
For one month, my normal participation becomes the fuel for the burn.
The more MEME I legitimately earn through my activity, the more MEME I burn.
My Curation Power Makes This Experiment Interesting
There is another reason I believe this experiment could become meaningful.
My MemeHive stake gives me significant curation power.
At the time I am beginning this campaign, my vote can distribute approximately 3,000 MEME at full voting strength, depending on the platform's reward mechanics and current conditions.
That does not mean every vote is identical or that I intend to exhaust my voting power simply to increase the burn.
Quite the opposite.
I want to continue curating as I normally would.
If I discover something I believe deserves support, I will support it.
If a creator produces something valuable, funny, interesting, original, or culturally meaningful, I can use my stake to help reward that contribution.
That is what stake should be used for.
This creates an interesting cycle.
I accumulated MEME.
I staked MEME.
That stake increased my ability to curate.
I use that curation power to reward creators.
My participation can generate curation rewards.
And for the next 30 days, the MEME rewards that I personally receive and that qualify for this campaign will be burned.
The creator still receives support.
The ecosystem still experiences participation.
But instead of my eligible rewards simply increasing an already very large position, those rewards leave my possession permanently.
That is the experiment.
What About Upvoting My Own Posts?
This is something I have considered carefully.
Historically, upvoting my own posts is not something I normally practice.
I have generally preferred using my voting power to support other people.
However, because I am committing to burn 100% of the eligible MEME rewards I personally receive during this campaign, there is an interesting argument for temporarily including my own content.
If I publish original content and vote on it, and every MEME reward that I personally receive from that activity is ultimately burned, then the purpose would not be to accumulate more MEME for myself.
It would actually increase the potential amount that could be burned.
Still, I do not want the campaign to become an exercise in maximizing rewards through artificial behavior.
That would undermine the entire point.
My priority remains genuine participation.
So if I do vote on some of my own original posts during this experiment, particularly posts connected to MemeHive, digital culture, memes, or this burn campaign, any eligible MEME rewards I personally receive from those posts will be included in the burn.
The rule remains the same:
If I personally earn eligible MEME rewards during this 30-day campaign, I do not keep them.
They burn.
That is the commitment.
I Am Not Burning My Existing 20 Million MEME Position
I also want to make an important distinction.
This campaign is not a burn of my existing staked position.
My approximately 20.3 million MEME position represents years of accumulation.
I began accumulating MEME in 2023, and I continue to view that position as a long-term stake in the future of MemeHive.
I am not destroying that stake.
I am not reducing my commitment.
In fact, I see this campaign as an extension of that commitment.
My existing position remains.
The burn applies to the eligible MEME rewards I personally earn during the 30-day campaign period.
This creates two separate paths for my MEME activity.
My existing holdings represent:
Long-term ownership.
My campaign rewards represent:
Contribution through burning.
One demonstrates that I am willing to hold.
The other demonstrates that I am willing to give something back.
Why Burn Tokens at All?
Token burning is often discussed exclusively through the lens of economics.
Reduce supply.
Increase scarcity.
Potentially affect supply-and-demand dynamics.
Those concepts exist, but I do not want to exaggerate what a 30-day personal burn can accomplish.
I am one participant.
This is one experiment.
The total amount burned will depend entirely on how much eligible MEME I legitimately earn during the campaign.
I am not going to pretend that one person burning rewards for 30 days will magically transform an entire ecosystem.
That is not the point.
The deeper value of this experiment is participation.
A community is not built by waiting for someone else to do something.
It grows when individual participants ask:
What can I contribute?
For one person, the answer might be creating memes.
For another, it might be writing.
For another, developing infrastructure.
Someone else might curate.
Someone might onboard new users.
Someone might build tools.
Someone might preserve old internet culture.
Someone might create videos.
My own role has increasingly become a combination of several of these things.
I create.
I curate.
I stake.
I write.
I produce videos.
I support communities.
And now, for 30 days, I burn the MEME rewards generated by my own eligible participation.
That is my contribution to this particular experiment.
MemeHive Is About More Than a Token
One reason I have continued accumulating MEME since 2023 is that I see MemeHive as something larger than a number sitting inside a wallet.
Memes have become one of the dominant languages of the internet.
People use memes to communicate humor.
Politics.
Frustration.
History.
Social criticism.
Identity.
Shared experiences.
Entire generations now communicate ideas through formats that would have been almost impossible to explain to someone living before the internet.
A picture.
A character.
A phrase.
A reaction.
A template.
And suddenly millions of people understand the joke.
That is culture.
It may look ridiculous.
It may sometimes be absurd.
But folklore has always contained absurdity.
People have always created symbols.
People have always repeated stories.
People have always transformed existing stories into new versions.
The internet simply accelerated the process.
This is why I believe meme communities deserve infrastructure.
Not because every meme will survive.
Most will not.
But because the culture itself matters.
That was one of the central ideas behind my recent Baby Lady Educational Essay:
Why Some Memes Live Forever.
Most memes appear.
They spread.
They disappear.
But some survive for years.
They are remixed.
Reinterpreted.
Recreated.
Passed from one generation of internet users to another.
The memes that survive become something closer to digital folklore.
And if memes are becoming part of our digital folklore, then platforms dedicated to preserving and rewarding that culture may become increasingly important.
That is where I believe MemeHive has an interesting role to play.
Curation Is Not Passive
One of the things I appreciate most about the Hive ecosystem is that ownership can translate into responsibility.
Having a large stake gives someone influence.
The question is what they do with it.
I currently hold the largest position shown on the MEME richlist.
That position gives my votes significant weight.
I could simply sit on that stake.
I could do nothing.
But what would be the point?
Stake becomes more meaningful when it participates.
Every time I curate a creator, I am making a decision.
I am saying:
I believe this deserves visibility.
That is not something I take lightly.
The internet already has enormous centralized algorithms deciding what billions of people see.
Most users have absolutely no influence over those systems.
They scroll.
The algorithm decides.
They watch.
The algorithm learns.
They create.
The algorithm determines whether anyone sees it.
Decentralized curation introduces a different model.
It is imperfect.
Human judgment is imperfect.
Communities are imperfect.
But the underlying idea is powerful.
Participants can have a direct role in deciding what their communities value.
My 20 million MEME position gives me significant influence within this particular ecosystem.
For the next month, I want to connect that influence with a measurable commitment.
I will curate.
Creators will receive support.
And the eligible MEME rewards that return to me will be burned.
The Burn Ledger
I want this campaign to be transparent.
So I am establishing a public MEME Burn Ledger.
These are the starting figures for the campaign:
Campaign: 30-Day MEME Reward Burn
Start Date: July 19, 2026
End Date: August 18, 2026
Starting Staked MEME: Approximately 20,299,546
Starting Liquid MEME: Approximately 16,397
Starting Total MEME Position: Approximately 20,315,943
Maximum MEME Supply: 250,000,000
My Position as Percentage of Maximum Supply: Approximately 8.13%
Campaign Burned MEME: 0
The last number begins at zero.
Over the next 30 days, it will change.
I intend to document the burns so the community can follow the experiment.
At the end of the campaign, I will publish a complete follow-up report detailing how much MEME was earned, how much was burned, and what I learned from the experiment.
No predictions.
No inflated promises.
Just results.
What Happens After 30 Days?
On August 18, 2026, the initial experiment ends.
Then I will look at the numbers.
How much MEME did I earn?
How much did I burn?
How much content did I curate?
How many creators received votes?
Did the campaign encourage conversation?
Did anyone else decide to participate in their own way?
Was the experiment worth continuing?
Those are questions I cannot answer today.
That is why this is an experiment.
But I already know one thing.
Whatever amount I burn will represent MEME that I could have added to my own position and chose not to.
For someone who has been accumulating MEME since 2023, that decision means something to me.
I believe enough in my existing position that I am comfortable allowing an entire month of eligible rewards to go somewhere else.
Not to an exchange.
Not to another wallet.
Not into my stake.
Out of my possession.
Burned.
This Is What Long-Term Participation Looks Like to Me
Crypto has developed a strange relationship with time.
A week feels long.
A month feels like an era.
People arrive expecting immediate results.
When those results do not appear, they disappear.
I have never approached MemeHive that way.
I started accumulating MEME in 2023.
It is now 2026.
I am still here.
I am still accumulating.
I am still staking.
I am still curating.
And I am still thinking about what this ecosystem could eventually become.
The same philosophy influences how I approach Baby Lady.
I am interested in building things that survive.
Communities that survive.
Stories that survive.
Memes that survive.
Culture that survives.
Platforms that cannot disappear simply because one corporation changes its priorities.
This is why Hive became increasingly important to what I am building.
This is why MemeHive became increasingly interesting to me.
And this is why I believe long-term participants should occasionally think beyond the value of their own wallets.
An ecosystem becomes stronger when people contribute to something larger than their individual balance.
For the next 30 days, this is one way I have chosen to do that.
An Invitation to the MemeHive Community
I am not asking anyone else to burn their MEME.
Everyone has different circumstances.
Everyone has different goals.
Everyone has a different relationship with this ecosystem.
This is my personal experiment.
But I do invite everyone to participate in MemeHive in whatever way makes sense for them.
Create something.
Make someone laugh.
Curate a creator who deserves more attention.
Write about internet culture.
Preserve an old meme.
Create a new one.
Start a conversation.
Support someone whose work you enjoy.
Build something.
Communities do not become meaningful because a token exists.
Tokens are tools.
Communities become meaningful because people participate.
And if enough people continue participating for long enough, something interesting begins to happen.
The community develops history.
Then traditions.
Then recognizable characters.
Then stories.
Then shared memories.
Eventually, culture emerges.
That is how digital communities become more than websites.
That is how they begin becoming something closer to the Digital Nations I have been writing about.
30 Days Begin Now
So this is where the experiment begins.
I have spent years accumulating MEME.
Today, I hold more than 8% of its maximum supply.
My position is staked.
My curation power is active.
And for the next 30 days, I am changing one part of the equation.
I will continue participating.
I will continue curating.
I will continue creating.
But 100% of the eligible MEME rewards I personally earn during this campaign will be burned.
Every burn will add to the ledger.
Every day will bring us closer to the final number.
And when the 30 days are finished, I will return with the results.
Maybe the final number will surprise us.
Maybe it will not.
Either way, the experiment will have accomplished something.
It will have taken participation and turned it into action.
I accumulated because I believe in MemeHive.
I stake because I want a long-term position in its future.
I curate because creators deserve support.
And for the next 30 days, I burn because I want to contribute something back.
Day 1 begins today.
The Burn Ledger starts at zero.
Let's see where it stands in 30 days.
This article represents my personal participation in the MemeHive ecosystem and documents a voluntary token-burning experiment. It is not financial advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, stake, or burn any cryptocurrency or token.
