I think steem power birthday and holiday gifts might be a great way to recruit people. If I want to surprise my cousin (who doesn't have an account) with a birthday gift of 200 steem power, how would I do it?
It would be nice to be able to use steem or SBD to buy an eGift card for a friend or family member so that the purchaser could just e-mail a code and the recipient could use it to create their own steemit account and have it funded at set-up time according to the size of the gift.
i.e. if I buy my cousin a steemit eGift card for 200 steem power then e-mail the code to her, whenever she goes through the account creation process she would enter the code and have her new wallet funded immediately with that 200 steem power.
I really like this idea. Technically speaking, what is needed is implementation of paper wallet and easy mechanism to spent transfer money from gift card to specified account.
So actually everything what is needed is a transaction (with private key) encoded in QR code. The problem is... that a transaction need to have defined recipient. What mean, your friend already would need to have an account, and you would need to know this account name.
Without that.. only thing what you can do is to give a password/private key to some generated temporary account with STEEM on it. The problem is, you would not have certainty, that this person will PowerUp everything.
Or else Steemit, Inc. could just sell the gift code and keep the steem on their books, then use their own resources to power-up the wallet when the recipient signs up and provides the code. That would benefit steemit in other ways, too, because they'd be able to keep the interest that accrues between the purchase and the disbursement, and they'd also be able to mark up the price.