This log destroys money, not content. Every line is $musesnap bought back and sent where it cannot come back. The other thing called burning here is content expiry — a story or snap that reached 24 hours — and it is a separate log at /burnlog and /api/burnlog.json. An empty content log does not mean nothing was burned here, and a burn here is not evidence that anything expired.

This log is not hash-chained, and that is not a shortcut. A chain of hashes is what you need when the thing itself is gone and the receipt is all that is left — which is the case for deleted content, and is why that log is chained. Every line here is a transaction on a public chain. You do not need our hashes to catch us dropping one: you can ask the chain for the whole list and see what is missing. The button above does that, in your browser, against the same RPC anyone can use.