Why would a dev use Prim.cyclesBurn?

found it here:

https://docs.internetcomputer.org/languages/motoko/reference/changelog/#0130-2024-09-17

https://github.com/caffeinelabs/motoko/pull/4690

I suppose it’s like a “Buy Me a Coffee” button but in cycles :laughing:

No, but more seriously, maybe you manage a fleet of canisters for testing and they all have similar but slightly different cycles - then you can shave some of them off to all be the same - perhaps that’s a legitimate use case..

Who’s buying whom coffee here, @Dionysus ?? :joy:
I’m getting confused about who owes who now!

I’m not sure why I was summoned here, mate.

I quite enjoyed that little joke I did.

I make my own coffee, mate.

Sometimes the wife makes it for me if she’s in a good mood.

Lmao, @WebTreeSoftwareSolut , your alt account has been working overtime.

Huh?

What’s going on?

Are we having a party?

Is it a birthday party?

This was put in when bob was burning cycles by actually doing real PoW. It was killing the network topology so they gave them a cheat code. It got hand-wavy, and there wasn’t really any PoW going on. It was just Proof of Burn. I may be misremembering, but that is close to right.

interesting.. who is “Me” here if im the one burning my own cycles? haha

hmm interesting :thinking:… but how to prove the cycles burn happened tho

i mean, if the burner rly wanna flex

thanks for the history. so as i thought then; there’s no rly good use case so far to use cyclesBurn :magnifying_glass_tilted_right::face_with_monocle:

Why would a dev use Prim.cyclesBurn?

Shits and gigs, much like sending ICP (or any other token) directly to the burn account