We just burned the 60k at block 279917.
If you look at the Total Coins in the previous block, you will see that this block is 60k less. The coins were sent as a network fee which are destroyed.
But why network fee was destroyed and not given to miner?
Yes, at the change to PoS, network fees are now destroyed. Though it is fractional, it does help overtime with inflation, and now we can remove coins from the total coin cap if needed...
instead of having them just sit there at an address somewhere. Thats how burning coins should work..
I guess the "any 60k" was burned even though a significant number of forum members voted for the original.
Original 60k  20 (31.3%)
Any 60k  44 (68.8%)
Total Voters: 64
I suppose no one here is interested in having any more forks.
Not entirely sure what you are implying, but there was a vote, and we did what the vote said.
I am happy that 60k coins were burnt.
I understand that finding transactions containing the initial 60k premine for the masternodes
would be more work and would need a more complex transaction to burn them than what
was carried out.
Whatever decisions are made, or whatever is done, not everyone will be happy.
While proposals might be described and discussed in bitcointalk. I think the decision to stray
from the original plan should have been formalized with a proposal and vote. In the case of a
crisis, security incident, etc. it could be acceptable for the developers make changes that
need to be done quickly.
There is no way for the poll to reflect the share of masternode voters. I think that this is why
we have this masternode based proposal and voting system. Seeing that the system is not
being used reduces its credibility.
In my understanding it was an informal poll (unless I missed a message explaining it), which
indicated that for 20 out of 64 who participated, It mattered which coins were burnt. Votes
are not always decided based on 50% majority. Enough, that it could be discussed further...
and a decision to stray from the initial plan, it could be formalized by a proposal and vote.
As for the comment about the fork, this is definitely a small issue. There is not much at
stake and no change in the intended supply of DNET. The Ethereum hard fork and
Ethereum classic is a good example of what can happen when there is a lot at stake and
when differences in principles.