Knowing Steem Blockchain #1: How to create a new account?

Greetings,

This time I'm going to tell you the most common methods that you can use to join Steemit, appart for how Steem developers that comunicate with the chain and create accounts for themselves too. Around Steemit there are a lot of tools that among other features, you can create Steem accounts but there are two account creation services that are the most used and completely for free!

The first method is the Steemit wallet one, you can find it here https://signup.steemit.com/#source=wallet|index, and with this method you will can create accounts by providing a phone number and an email and you will receive 15 delegated SP from @steem so you will can get started easily.

This is the official account creation that Steemit Inc maintain, and is the most used around Steemit cause there is where users go when looking for information about the platform. You will receive a PDF file during the process which contains the following: Posting, Memo, Active and Owner key, and Tron Public and Private key. ^{(Safe it securely!)}

The second method that is massively used is the maintained by @justyy, one of the Steem Witness. And this can be found here https://steemyy.com/reg.php, this method only requires an email account, we suggest to you use a GMAIL account cause you will receive all your keys there.

There are other services as well, but these are the more truted by the community but remember that you never have to trust in anyone when we talk about keys, so you can always change it using your owner key in https://steemitwallet.com.

Steem accounts are not free at all, there is a comission of 3.000 STEEM that anyone can pay and create more accounts quickly, however there is another method where you can pay with Resource Credits and is called discounted account.

Basically you need to buy 'tickets' first paying with RC and you will can use these tickets later to claim discounted accounts. This process require a lot of RC so we suggest you to have at least 20,000 SP or your may run out of this quickly.

I have created a simple script in JS to claim tickets so you can check it and start claiming tickets in your account if you want. https://github.com/Alejos7ven/steem-create-account

You can migrate it to Python as well, these both languages are the most supported on Steem.

Also you can find an official tutorial to do this process: https://github.com/steemit/devportal-tutorials-js/tree/master/tutorials/26_create_account