A total of 5,789.24 HBD & 18,341.08 Hive burned in May through @buildawhale burn posts. That is $11,475 total for the month.
Why burn posts?
Burn post give stake holders an alternative way to direct inflation with their stake. All author rewards are burned as well as Hive Engine tokens earned.
There is one daily burn posts with 11 comments, so you can choose to burn as much or little as you want.
Hive Engine Tokens
Most tribes are dead at this point, so it's kind of pointless to even look at what is burned, but Leo is still pretty active.
Burn posts burn a considerable amount of Leo, in fact, in previous months the burn posts were in the top 5 authors on Leo.
While this chart is not a specific time frame (likely a few weeks), it does show where the burn posts (@buildawhale) fall in total Leo rewards. A total of 874.464 Leo was burned in this time frame, which is roughly around $70 every 2-3 weeks.