Money to Burn was a work of performance art executed on June 22, 2010, in which Dread Scott burned $171[1] in US dollar bills in front of the New York Stock Exchange.
Scott filmed himself repeatedly singing "money to bur-rn, money to burn" while burning one bill at a time with a Zippo lighter, both from the $250 in small bills attached to his clothes, and from bills solicited from passers-by.
[2][3][4] Describing the performance, Scott said "I did the one thing you shouldn't do with money: burn it.
But I was doing in extremely small form what happens on the stock exchange daily on a much grander scale.
"[3] After 25 minutes, the New York Police Department intervened and issued Scott a summons for disorderly conduct, which he fought in court.