Hi, this is @markrmorrisjr, founder of Dolphinschool and instructor of the recent #Dolphinschool Bootcamp and, although I've been here since near the beginning, I'm still learning new tricks.

Dolphinschool Bootcamp was amazing, but it took a tole on my blog.

It was busy, and messy and chaotic, and it seems to have chased away some long time fans from upvoting. That's no good.

It's like putting on your oxygen mask before you help others, or throwing a lifeline to a drowning person to pull them out, rather than getting in with them.

What good will it do to want to help beginners, if I destabilize my own source of supply in the process, so, @dolphinschool was born.

It's amazing what you can learn on steemit, if you just look around.

I'd seen a method for buying accounts on a site called Steemthat.com, designed to create anonymous accounts, but it sounded sketchy. I'm sure it works, but this method is not that.

In fact, it uses an app you're likely already familiar with, Steem Connect.

Steem connect is one of the best tools for bridging between apps on the steem blockchain. A lot of tools, like Dmania, Steepshot and Busy.org are connected to it. It provides you a safe way to login to third party platforms, without risking your password in so many places.

So, I needed a better way to do this thing. I couldn't afford to wait the week or more to get one of my kids approved as a steem user. And, I wanted to make sure to lock down this name, now that we've attracted so much attention to it.

That's when I saw the option on Steem Connect to create an account!

Anyone with a viable steemit account, and enough steem to spare, can sprout another account in just seconds. It's easy.

To start, have your password ready and go to this address.

When you get to the steem connect account creation page, this is what you'll see.

First, you'll need to enter your desired account name in the dialog box.

For this one it was easy. "dolphinschool" the name must be entered in all lower case letters. It can be anything you want it to be up to 16 characters, with no spaces.

You'll notice the password is already in the box here.

In this case, I think it will use your current password to launch the account. You'll probably want to change that asap inside your new account. I'll talk about that in another tutorial soon.

Next, you'll need to add some steem to power your account.

I couldn't afford much, so I started with 3 SP. The minimum to start an account currently, is 0.1.

What if I don't have any liquid Steem in my account?

That's okay, wait for your next payout and purchase some. It's easy.

You can also purchase steem through coin exchanges, but that's a subject for another tutorial.

First, click on the wallet.

This will take you into your account's wallet, where your steem totals, in Steem, SP, and Steem dollars are all listed.

Next, click on the down arrow next to your steem dollars total

This will open a drop down menu with 5 options.

• Transfer (for sending funds to other users)
• Transfer to savings (for sending sbd to your vault for safe keeping)
• Market
• Buy
• Sell

Now, click on the "market" option

This will take you to the internal Steem market. If you click Buy or Sell, you'll be taken offsite to the Blocktrades exchange. You can sell buy Steem here as well, but you'll need Ethereum or BTC to do so.

Once inside, find the Buy Steem panel and enter the amount you want.

This will give you the total of your purchase in SBD. Make sure you have enough in your wallet to make the purchase, or your account will have to wait. Your purchase order will be entered at the lowest "ask" price. You can change it, but this is the simplest method, especially for small amounts.

Finally, click the "Buy Steem" button

This will create a purchase order that will appear below in the "Open Orders" que. In your wallet, you may notice a ghost number next to your SBD total. That is the amount pending on your steem purchase.

Once the sale has gone through, the amount of steem you bought will be transmitted to your wallet instantly and you can proceed with building your new account.

If you'd like to add VESTS, input them in the box below.

I don't want to deplete my main account power, and I wasn't exactly sure what this would effect, so I left it at 0.000.

Finally, click on the continue button

If you've entered everything correctly, you will get a message telling you your new account is ready. If not, you'll need to go back through the steps carefully to see what you've missed.

Some users report that adding capital letters is the easiest mistake to make.

And now, we're here!

At first, I wondered where my password would be. But, as I mentioned above, it was apparently using my steemit password. I'll be changing that ASAP for security between accounts.

I use a free tool called Last Pass for generating and storing the dozens of passwords I use all the time. You can get it free from this link.

That's all for this edition of Dolphinschool tutorials

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