A big bottleneck to entering the Steem world is account creation. Either people can't get an account due to simply being denied or they're unable to be verified as a legit human. Or things get lost somewhere in the series of internet tubes that connect us all.
Since HardFork 20, I've been accumulating account creation credits. Some people intend to sell these (which I think is lame), but I intend to give them away which I have been doing lately. All of my account creation credits are FREE. Why would someone want to sell these?! You only shoot yourself and everyone else in the foot by being greedy in this regard. The more people we get, the stronger and more relevant what we're all doing here becomes.
So what do you need to do to get a free account?
Step #1: Decide on the account name.
Step #2: Send me 0.001 Steem or SBD with your desired account name in the memo. You can encrypt this so no one can see what it is by beginning the memo with #.
Step #3: Once I receive the memo and create the account, I will send the 0.001 Steem or SBD back to you with the account details (username and password) in an encrypted memo so that only you will be able to read it.
Step #4: CHANGE THE PASSWORD!!! The password I send you should be treated as temporary and should be changed immediately.
Step #5: Onboard your user!!! Teach them the ropes, help them make an introduceyourself post, show them some cool people to follow, explain how things work, show them resources, give them some upvotes, etc. Get creative!
Please do not abuse this service for your own means. It's fine to get an account from me if you want to start something up, but please do not request an account for malicious intent or anything unsavory. Think of ways you can help this community thrive. This is all primarily meant to onboard NEW users, so please keep that in mind.
This service is absolutely free and I am doing this all manually. Although it is free, I'm not turning down tips :-). I take any crypto on Earth, so yeah, keep that in mind haha. But also, do not feel obligated to tip, I'm not expecting it.
While I'm at it, I'd like to mention @pharesim's project Steem Invite. I'd also like to give a shoutout to @mcfarhat for writing the script that I'm using to claim and create accounts.
So get off of your ass and go get us some new users!!!
I'm looking at creating some accounts for others. Is there a good guide on how to do this? Someone showed me an obscure Steemconnect link to claim one, but I'm not sure what to do next. It uses up most of my RCs when I do this, but I have enough to get by.
Check out www.steeminvite.com You can even send people links to redeem it, but you have to approve it once they try to create it.
It's not ideal that the site wants your posting key. We need to be careful where we expose our keys. I'll keep looking for other options and I'll keep claiming accounts to give away
@pharesim, the dude who made it is extremely legit, but I feel ya 100%.
I'd trust him, but we need all users to be cautious. We have Steemconnect and now Steem Keychain that should be safer.
You can always run @mcfarhat's script locally to claim and create. If you need help with it, hit me up on Discord and I'll walk you through the process. It's very simple.
Thank you for the account. It worked flawlessly.
Awesome! So glad I stumbled upon this post at @whatsup’s blog. I’ve been looking for the best way to create an account for my buddy Raju. I actually made a post about helping him start a steem account here: https://steempeak.com/steemit/@shookriya/helping-a-friend-get-started-on-steem-cnbk7irk
I’m going to take you up on this offer right meow....Thank you very much.
Glad you stumbled across it! Account incoming, check your wallet in a bit for the memo.
EDIT: Sorry about that, looks like the account name you requested is to long :-/. Try choosing a shorter one.
ah, sorry i just saw this edit. how about @rajugokarna?
This is very useful and need to take advantage of this opportunity! Thank you @matt-a
Great idea, my friend, and this is very noble of you!
I sent a memo.
I want to create an account for my friend.
he hasn't received a reply email for 3 weeks.
he wants to create an account in the name
PROGRAMMER
Sorry, but the account @programmer is taken. You can check availability by going to www.steemd.com/@whateveryouwantyouraccounttobecalled
Let me know what you decide on and I'll get it going!
no problem.
You can add @programmer1 and @programmer2
@programmer1 is available, i will create that one tomorrow. Please send 0.001 Steem or SBD to me with the account name and i will send it back with the login details for you.
Okee. Thanks u very much
Your account is ready, check your wallet for info!
Oke brother
I see in my area there are not many new users who are interested in registering Steemit, even many old users leave their accounts, all because the price of steem or SBD is very cheap.
but if you are willing I am interested in getting one account from you.
I see you wanted an account. I created it and sent you the credentials in an encrypted memo. Enjoy!
Thank you
You're welcome. I'm able to create plenty more accounts, so if you know anyone in need of one that will actually use it, let me know.
Thanks so much for this opportunity. I will like to create one for a friend also.
*Edit
He prefers festus1999
You're welcome. The account has been made, check your wallet for account credentials. Enjoy!
Good day, sir. I just checked now and there is no memo attached to the 0.001 sbd sent. Please check again. Thank you.
There is a memo attached with your login credentials. It is encrypted so you will have to log into www.steemit.com with your master password, then view your wallet. This works the best when you are on a PC.
It is definitely there, you are just doing something incorrect like logging in with your posting key or something. Or trying to view it on mobile.
Oh thanks. Will do.
Sorry, but I didn't see the new account yet. Does it take that much time, Cos you already sent the steem back to me since?
The account was created and the steem I sent back has the credentials in the memo in an encrypted form. Log into steemit.com and view your wallet to see it decrypted.
OK thanks. I am sorry I still don't think I know where to check it yet. I have gone to my wallet several times but can't seem to find it there.
You must log into steemit.com and then go to https://steemit.com/@hamg96/transfers
Use your main password or active key to login.
Scroll down and you will see a transfer from me and there will be the username and password. I see it just fine.
Believe me. I have actually seen the transfer you made, since yesterday but I don't know how to decrypt it since it is encrypted.
And I have used every Dapp I know to check the message but I can't.
That's the screenshot of my wallet.
Anyway, do you think it is because I am using a phone, maybe a laptop is required to decrypt it.
Check it on your laptop, or turn your phone sideways. The info you need is definitely there. I just looked at it.
Ah! Thank you very much for the suggestion and for your patience. I finally got it when I turned my phone sideways. Thanks.
You rock!
I've just gone through the same problem. I worked out that I must click on the 3 bars on the right of the page and click on "Logout"
I then re-logged in using my Memo encryption PW.
I instantly saw the memo message, with the password matt-a created for me.
I logged in again with my normal 'Posting key' and then used the pw on my friends computer (No point in trying to do it on yuor browser, use only the browser/pc or phone of the person who will be using it.
Thanks very much for the info.
I have one, I will send in his details by Monday because I don't have them right now. Is that too late?
Not at all, this is an open-ended offer. I'll be doing this for the foreseeable future.
Do all minnows also have Action Reaction Credits too?
You need roughly 3000 SP to create an account, I think.
Woow, such a great news to read about! I will do for a friend of mine having trouble opening one for himself.
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Cool! Just send the 0.001 Steem or SBD to my wallet with the account name and I'll send the 0.001 Steem or SBD back to you with the account password.
You could use Infestor by @emrebeyler for account creation.
https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@emrebeyler/infestor-update-account-creation-via-web-interface
Sure, but you need roughly 3000+ SP to be able to create an account. I've been claiming accounts for a while now and have plenty to go around. I'm just offering up to use my own credits for other people.
Same here. I have accumulated a good amount of discounted accounts like you in time.
infestor is for the people like us, you create gift codes, and people claim their accounts with these codes:
Example:
https://steemit.com/steem/@emrebeyler/free-steem-accounts-first-come-first-serve-no-strings-attached
However, setting up infestor requires info on deploying a python app. Maybe, I can make it heroku friendly in the future, so people can serve it with a 'one click deploy' link.
This is super cool, gonna check it out! Have you played with some of the free-tier AWS stuff? Might be able to get away with that.
free-tier AWS should be allright. The app doesn't need any real resources. Just a Python3.6 interpreter and a web server. :-)
I know. With this tool you can create gift codes and give them to other people and they can use app (and app create accounts for them with your account creation credits). You never see the password and this make account creation more secure.
https://freeaccounts.steeminator.com/
https://github.com/emre/infestor
Just sayin I support this. Very cool man.
I like team work.
That's the power of #steem.
Keep on helping and make it valuable for all of us.
Whoa, that's cool. How do you get account creation credits?
You have to have roughly over 3000 SP and then you can begin claiming.
I don't need an account right now, I just wanted to give you an upvote for this.
Good work.
With 3000 SP how long does it take to earn 1 free account?
Thanks for informative post on creating account.
Thanks, same for my friend, gets no reply
He would like to use the name
@Byron
In the Memo (not encrypted), do I give my name @arthur.grafo withe transfer of 0.001 so that you can send the info to me?
EDIT: Sent transfer and memo
Sorry, but the account named @byron is taken. You'll have to choose another one.
I tried @poet.byron and it does not seem to be taken. Thanks
You're welcome. The account was created, check your wallet for information!
I love it that you helped me help someone.
As they say in Kiswahili: Asanti sana
:)
EDIT:
I just checked my wallet. I see you return the 001 but there is no memo attached to it. How do I go about accessing the pw for changing it? I do not see the Settings tag, so there is nothing I can do....
It's an encrypted memo. Log into your account on steemit.com and look at your wallet there once you've logged in. The memo will have your username and password. After you get it, immediately change the password for security.
Thanks, edited to remove message, since I worked it out. Anyone else stuck as I was, look at my reply to another person on this page,having the same problem
@matt-a - it is so nice to have one more person on Steemit for me to consider a 'nice' person.
:)
Those are public keys, those aren't password.
Go to steemit.com, log into your account, then look at your wallet transfers. You will see the username and password.
Once you get that, log into the @poet.byron account on steemit.com and then select this:
Then follow the instructions.
The problem was I was using my own browser, which stores the Posting key. Now I'm doing it directly on the pc of my friend.
Thanks for replying...I edited my post before seeing you have replied...
lol, that is me...
Flag you figured it out!
You're welcome.
This is a kind move, thank you.
You're welcome! I got a memo from you earlier and I do not understand it :-(. What's up?
Did I misunderstand anything? I sent you 0.001 SBD and the desired Name as Memo. What else do I have to do?
Your memo said "Apostolische Gemeinde in Schweinfurt," I did not understand it. Just tell me the account name that you would like and I will send you the username and password back in an encrypted memo.
Thank you. Sorry that I made it more complicated for you.
The account name is if possible ''apostolische-gemeinde-in-schweinfurt''
Sorry but that account name is too long :-(. Try again! Sorry haha
Sorry. I even forgot to see if it works.
Lets try ''apostolische-gemeinde''
Thank you for this information!
(Would be great if you take a look of my latest drawings;)
It's a great gesture to welcome new guys here, I wish, if all the people who could do so, can join together, and make account creation faster like this. May be advertise in FB, or Twitter, to welcome people from there, and provide them an instant account like this.
Advertise! I'll make them account if you get them interested.
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Greetings, Matt. It's been a while since we last had a chat on Discord. Finally came around.
I have a friend who's interested in getting a new steemit account. However, the expected waiting time discourages him. this would be really helpful. I'll ask him for his preferred username and get back to you. thanks.
Cool! Let me know what he decides on and I'll make it happen. Also let me know if they post and I'll either upvote them or vest when a bit of Steem so that they can transact.
He prefers samueldgrate and his friend prefers evergreen. If evergreen isn't available, simply use any number you wish.
Thank you, Matt.
You're welcome. Evergreen is taken, he got any other ideas? I know you said that numbers are fine, but if you're talking to them atm, see if they want something else.
He's offline. I think he'll agree to that... Any number(s) would do
Hmm, well ok! If he doesn't like it, I don't care to make him a new one, btw.
Haha, after looking into this, I'm surprised at how many evergreen's there are. evergreen, ever-green, evergreen1 are all taken.
How about @ever.green?
aqui mi visita apoyando su trabajo,un cordial saludo ,soy venezolana,espero mantener buenas amistades en steemit,hasta pronto y feliz tarde
everybody around me already got a steem account but this is sweet, I'll bookmark your post and follow you for the next friend I bring to steemit.
A hint is missing in step two, to send an encrypted message we have to be logged in using our memo key. it was a bit confusing when I tried, the error just said: missing memo key.
getting the memo key wasn't that easy either with the show private key in front of memo key missing when I'm logged in with my posting key. I had to login with my master key first for that to show.
the rest was straight forward, hopefully you're still doing this. ;)
You can also be logged in with your active key or master passphrase as well as your private memo key.
Yep, still doing it. When I get on my computer I'll make the account you requested.
Account created and password sent! Check your wallet for the encrypted memo that contains the credentials.
got the account, thank you :)
Please repost this so I can resteem and we can all know about the free Account Creation Service youre providing! @steemhunt now has a partner in providing free accounts instantly!
You are providing them Instantly yes?
I don't have anything set up to provide them instantly, but I get on here everyday and process them manually. So the turn around time is maybe a couple of hours to a day or so.
Good idea on the reposting the post, it's getting buried in time. It's almost 7 months old! haha
@pharesim's project works great too, check it out: https://www.steeminvite.com/
Just reposted, thanks man!
Blablabla blablabla... blablabla...
You take the steem and run... every drop helps to fill up the cup!? Doesn't it?
Uhh, are you just here to troll? I've created every account requested . . . for free. Why are you being an asshole?
And yeah, I really want 0.001 Steem or 0.001 SBD, that's my master plan, to steal 0.00047USD from a few people over the course of months . . .
Hi there Matt.
Now that was quick. Because the steem I sent you for your offer has until today
So now, after more then a month, to me it looks like your offer is blablabla... Or you may want me to ask you nicely again, every now and then! But no thanks! Keep the steem and do some good with it if that's possible for you. ABTW, keep flagging as much as you like. It want make disappear the fact that for me your offer is blablabla.
And please inform yourself properly before calling me a troll!
Peace, Love and Sincerity
D
I just searched and 60 days ago you sent me 0.001 Steem. You could have messaged me like a normal person or commented instead of being an asshole.
You aren't welcome to use my services. I'm refunding your precious 0.001 Steem now, I will not make any accounts for you so don't try again. If you would have alerted me to this I would have happily taken the time out of my day to GIVE you a FREE steem account, but instead you just call me a thief, a con artist, and you act like a spoiled baby.
Side note, you don't "claim," steem that is sent to you . . .
Sure, you got it, will continue to flag.
Work on your people skills.
😂
Pretty funny to be a dick to someone giving out free accounts, huh? Very classy.