Steem tip #2: How you can easily create a Steem accounts for your friends, so they don’t need to wait for Steemit to confirm their accounts

When you are signing up for the Steem blockchain through Steemit, you need to wait for Steemit Inc. to confirm your account before you can begin to use it. If you’re lucky this process will only take a day or two, but other users have to wait several weeks before they get in to the website.

It is pretty obvious to me that this is not a good thing when motivated users want to come here and post good content, so in this post I want to share a few ways that you guys can create new accounts for your friends, family or even yourself. By doing this you will get a new account within a matter of seconds, not days or weeks.

Create a new account with Vessel

I always use Vessel for my account management, so this is the tool I would suggest (but I will write about an alterative below). Vessel is a desktop wallet developed by @jesta, the witness with most votes on the Steem blockchain.

Vessel lets you claim rewards, create account, delegate Steem Power, power up and a few other features, so I suggest you check it out even if you don’t plan to create more accounts. To download it, follow this link: https://github.com/aaroncox/vessel/releases. You should also follow @jesta to get the latest information about new releases of the software.

Once you have downloaded and installed Vessel, add your main account to it by using the active key (or higher if you prefer). Look at the picture above to see where you should click to do this.

After having your account attached to Vessel, click on the “Create account” button next to the “Add account”. This will bring up the window you see on the image below.

As you can see, creating an account will cost you 0.2 Steem, and you need to delegate about 14 SP to the newly created account. The thing to keep in mind though is that none of these Steem coins are “lost”, but the 0.2 Steem is given to the new account, and the 14SP that is being delegated can be removed after a while once the new account has gotten some Steem Power of its own.

Anyway, when you hit the button to continue the process, you will get the password and all the keys, so make sure to copy these to a text editor, because you will not be able to retrieve them from Vessel after this point. These keys can be given to your friend, and he/she can change it once they log in to Steemit.

Create an account using Steemconnect

It is also possible to create a Steem account for your friend without having to download Vessel, and you can do this by using Steemconnect. The account creation tool is found at this link, so click on it.

This tool is a bit more difficult to handle, and I only know how to create accounts with Steem, not by delegations. What you need to do is just to type in the username of your new account / the name your friend wants, and copy the password to somewhere safe.

Now you need to find how many Steem you need to create the account. What you need to do is to go to SteemDB and look for the field called Account Creation Fee. This can change, but it is currently set to 0.2 Steem. However, you need to pay this to all 30 witnesses, so take the number and multiply it by 30. Right now this means that it costs 6 Steem to create the account, but this can change!

Type in this number to the Steem field, and sign into your account to complete the transaction. Once this is done the Steem is taken from your account and given to the new account as Steem Power, so you might want to ask your friend to pay you back at one point, since this will cost you like $30 right now.

There are more methods

There are a few more methods to create a new account on the Steem blockchain, but none of these really offer an advantage over the two I listed, so I suggest that you use either of these. Both tools are created by members of the community that are well-trusted and have a good reputation.

More Steem tips

Here’s a link to the previous entry in the “Steem tip” series, and hopefully the list will grow longer in the future once I’ve written some more posts.

• Steem tip #1: All users who create unique and high-quality content should join the @qurator guild and get roughly $1 votes on your posts every day.

Thanks for reading

Thanks for reading about how to create new accounts for yourself or for a friend. I hope this encourages you to get your friends and family to try out Steemit! Let me know if you got any questions in the comment section.

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