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超过3400万EOS代币（价值1.67亿美元）永久停止流通。此举是大幅度降低协议通货膨胀计划的一步，此计划预计将通货膨胀率从5%降至1%。
2018年7月31日，EOS的21位区块制作者中超过15位通过了一项提案，焚烧savings账户中价值1.67亿美元的闲置EOS代币。
2018年1月EOS启动时，账户建立。但该账户已经闲置8个月，不断累积资金，却无使用计划。每个月大约有360万新造EOS代币（1700万美元）存入eosio.savings账户。并且这个数字正在呈指数般增长，从而导致了通货膨胀。EOS区块链拥有5%的年通货膨胀率。4%的通胀率归置于eosio.savings账户，1%则分置于区块制作者处。
目前有一项计划（该计划获得了极大的支持），用以消除流向savings账户的那4%的通胀，同时保留区块制作的1%。投标于5月底结束。
“这些大量堆积的代币数额过多，若我们继续让其不断增长下去，它终将成为攻击我们网络的载体。”该提案中如此说道。
5月7日，该计划启动，34,171,037 个EOS代币永久地从流通中删除。但焚烧并不会影响今后代币流向savings账户，并且通胀偿付也将继续，直至投票通过降低通胀的提案。
降低潜在的流通供给对EOS代币持有者而言是一件令人愉快的事。依据供需法则，每一枚保留下来的代币现在都在该网络中代表着更大的价值比例。
原文/Original：
Over 34 million EOS worth $167 million was permanently removed from circulation. The move is part of an initiative to drastically lower the inflation rate on the protocol from 5 to 1 percent.
On July 31, 2018, 15 or more of EOS’s 21block producers passed an initiative toburn $167 million EOS sitting idle in the platform’s savings account.
The account was created when EOS was launched in January of 2018. However, the account has sat idle for eight months, accumulating funds, without any plans for allocations. Approximately 3.6 million EOS ($17 million) is minted and sent to the eosio.savings account each month. And, the figure is growing exponentially as a result of compounding inflation.
The EOS blockchain has a 5 percent annual inflation rate. 4 percent of this inflation is allocated to the eosio.savings account while 1 percent is distributed to block producers.
There is currently an initiative—with overwhelming support—to eliminate the 4 percent inflation going to the eosio.savings account while retaining 1 percent inflation for block producers. The poll closes at the end of May.
“This large quantity of accumulated tokens has now become excessive and if we continue to allow it to keep growing, it will eventually become an attack vector for the network,” stated the proposal.
On May 7th, the initiative was executed and 34,171,037 EOS was permanently removed from circulation. However, the burning did not affect future contributions to the savings account and inflation disbursements will continue until the vote reducing inflation is passed.
The reduction in potential circulating supply is a boon for EOS tokenholders. By the law of supply and demand, each remaining token now represents agreater proportion of the network’s value.
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