I think you're misunderstanding a thing here, they won't burn 55M coins, they will remove them from the max total supply not from the circulating supply, by removing the wormhole feature
Thank you for correcting me. Wow that is still amazing news! I wonder how big the "big announcement" is for December 19, 2017? Can you imagine if an entire country decided to adopt it as their currency (I don't think that's the announcement; however that would be big)?
It made me think of it when I read the blog article:
Title: WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A COUNTRY CONVERTED ALL OF ITS CURRENCY TO BITCOINS?
https://www.emc2.foundation/emc2-blog/2017/5/31/what-would-happen-if-a-country-converted-all-of-its-currency-to-bitcoins