To me, this is one of the greatest scalability issues steem is facing / going to face. Making it easy for ppl to sign up, i.e. growing the network, is a huge problem right now. For example, we gave up waiting for my bro @uvictor.ochi to get an account thru steemit and just created one thru blocktrades...
Anyone else had it take forever for their friends to get an account from Steemit?
I just went through the process, in it's entirety it took about a week.