It took me nearly a month to have my account approved, and i had to use my GFs cell phone number to do it as i don't own a mobile though i am working ( Satellites have a hard time tracking me if i have no GPS) so it's very unlikely that steemit will blow up at all because of the registration wall.
but now you have your account right:)..I am not saying Steemit is the ultimate solution, I am just saying with the same effort you put in youtube and in Steemit the chance of having more money is in Steemit and DTube