"...Shiba proponent asked Kusama to “burn the remaining supply for the good of all.” He asked the developer to stop teasing the community with talks of an extreme burn mechanism and get to it.
Replying to these tweets, Kusama noted that they would need to buy the supply in order to burn it. “You still don’t get it huh? To burn the supply we have to BUY the supply. We don’t control the supply so STOP YELLING AT ME AND LET ME WORK,” he said..."
"...Shiba Inu’s lead developer Shytoshi Kusama stated that the burning of the SHIB tokens requires a true community effort. Replying to a user’s tweet who called for “massive burns to pep up the army”, Kusama added that they are working on the project which might take time, and hoped it would work out perfectly.
Data from the Shibburn website shows that 410,373,764,750,087 SHIB tokens have already been transferred to dead wallets from the initial supply of 1 quadrillion..."