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As of HF19, the new account creation fee is powered up into the newly created account.

i just created one : the minimum fee is 1 STEEM, if you pay 1 STEEM only it will delegate 10SP from the creator account to the new account, which is linke for 30 days (not the usual seven) and the 1 STEEM is added to the new account, yes .. free market ... let the bots ride free lol ... last thing one needs is regulation look what that gets the US and the EU