Why do the sats have to go to a miner? Just send them to an unspendable OP return Output
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True. But I think it's better to gives sats to miners instead of just randomly destroying them. In the long term, this approach might help with the security budget; it doesn't matter now, but it might be important in a few decades and hence I'd like to give 'burned' sats to (future) miners
On the other hand, I accept that if we are selfish individual bitcoiners, then we want the sats to be permanently destroyed in order to increase the relative scarcity of the sats we hold ๐
I suspect that burning sats might be a big thing in the future, for various reasons, hence I like the idea of helping (a little) with any long-term concerns about the security budget.