Mr. Sebastian Moonjava, the writer of the ”The Iconomi Burn — Crypto Buybacks” just mentioned above, carried out a wonderful job describing the new decision of ICONOMI.
As a matter of fact, there is another digital asset known as OBITS from the Bitshares platform that works the same way (burn-crypto buybacks), which means OBITS are also bought back and burned, thus reducing overall supply, allowing a natural growth in value of remaining OBITS over time.
The difference between ICN and OBITS is that at some point the burn-crypto buybacks are over for OBITS; thereafter, OBITS holders will receive only dividends from the openledger ecosystem, in native BTC tokens and Bitshares tokens (BTS).
In this regard, OBITS later on will receive similar treatment as the new Waves Community Tokens (WCT) which gives you also dividends in BTC tokens to WCT holders from the waves platform.
More information about OBITS and WCT below:https://obits.io/https://blog.wavesplatform.com/waves-community-tokens-e9e8b5db0b49