We need to make Account Creation free and easy again
Back in the days when we could send people directly to steemit.com for easy quick signup, we did grow in users by great amounts, and for every X user we got Y amount of them invested and powered up. A numbers game really.
Then came the restrictions and RC. All of a sudden we were no longer going to be progressive but conservative due to a fear of Noganoo stealing the best names.
afterwards, there was no way to target groups on the Internet to just come and create an account anymore, everything stagnated as new users now had to either pay for an account or get an account from someone who had accounts to give, this problem destroyed any efforts we did in marketing and we gave up trying to onboard new users, it was just too hard after the restrictions came.
I suggest we remove anything restricting new accounts from being created for free. Onboarding needs to be as simple as to just send people to hive.blog and other front ends and have whoever that wants sign up in a few very easy steps.
I am certain it will be profitable for everyone, and we should do it quickly
Account creation seems very easy and totally free these days. Thanks in part to what @hiveonboard was able to do, we've integrated it into PeakD.com and have had hundreds of people use it without issue. Maybe it won't scale to millions but that's not an issue we have presently.
And then there are some tools that help with auto delegations to those you help onboard ... peakd will be integrating that for people that jump in as well, making it so they don't have to worry about RC issues. And then next HF the RC pools will eventually make that need unnecessary in the future which will also be great.
So from where i sit getting people accounts is no longer much of an issue for us.
It needs to be easy and free so that we can onboard millions of users, hundreds of millions of users, a billion users.
The only reason we have the system we have now is because Ned Scott Panicked. It was intended to be free for users to sign up, but someone came up with the idea that new accounts needed to cost 3 coins burned as a blockchain creation taxation. Then they came up with a compensation, you know... those free accounts we can "RC-Mine" in such a small amount of accounts that it is not worth it to marketing. Your site would run out of accounts in a matter of hours or minutes running twitter or google ads and similar.
What we need is the main account creation system to be zero coin cost as originally intended so we can target and onboard large amounts of users.
It is a numbers game, for every 1000 new user we get 1 new investor
Technically, it is currently not possible to onboard millions or billions of users on a blockchain. Blockchain space is super expensive. But it is possible to onboard professional crypto-inclined content creators who enjoy the benefits of crypto and censorship-resistance.
I am super bored of hearing "it is not possible". Of course it is possible.
Excuse me, sir. You're using too much common sense ITT. I'm going to have to ask you to tone it down a tad.
This is valid concern and if Hive social media layer is moved out of core, it will be possible to remove RC and those restrictions as well. Make it like btc and eth, come create account easily and start using suite of dapps
So how come nobody seem to develop anything to make the doors open to new signups? Are we waiting for the price and trading-volume to completely delist us from the exchanges?
I wouldn't say nobody. After recent hardfork, once things stabilize, we can as community choose our priorities. Everyone has their own image how Hive should evolve and nobody stopping anyone from building solution and offering to community. Meanwhile, we already have easy signups https://ecency.com/?referral=demo. It is not as scalable solution as I would want but until better solution is proposed and implemented, it should be ok.