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yikes hive makes you pay 3 hive still for new accounts? how much is even in hive dao per year? few million? Not sustainable

No, you can create accounts for free with sufficient RC's.

  1. We do not need every account in the system making new accounts for it to be sustainable. Steem was creating far more accounts that were almost all created by @steem.
  2. Vast majority of accounts are created with RC's not 3 Hive.
  3. If 3 Hive were a limitation the price can be adjusted. It's adjustable by consensus.

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