"Burning" tokens is a concept used by many crypto currency providers to reduce the supply and therefore increase the scarcity.

Now that the ATOM token has been in circulation for some time we are going to start doing this ourselves. Initially all ATOM tokens used to request upvotes from @musicvoter2 will be burned. This is done by sending the tokens to @null.

As you can see the "Circulating" number is starting to decrease as we do this.

We will also look to do larger, one off burns at ad hoc times probably starting with the end of the year. The initial feeling was that we would issue one million additional tokens each year for 10 years and any tokens left in our accounts at the end of each year would be burned.

As anyone can earn ATOM tokens listening to music on AtomCollectorRecords.com the number of tokens left at the end of each year will depend on how popular the website becomes.

If by some miracle we end up with people collectively requesting more than 1 million tokens in one year then we would look to reduce the listening reward to 0.1 ATOM per track instead of the current 1.