Point well made. I guess the other option is to buy an account - this is taken from the Steemit FAQs
There is a third-party tool called AnonSteem that accepts bitcoin, Litecoin, STEEM, or SBD to anonymously create a Steem account. You do not need to have an existing Steem blockchain account to use the service, but there is a charge on top of the blockchain account creation fee for using the service.
There is also a third-party tool called SteemConnect that allows you to create accounts by paying or delegating the account creation fee. There is no additional fee to use the service, but does require an existing Steem blockchain account to pay the account creation fee to create the account.
I've used steemconnect and this would be good for family and friends, but not the random people that stumble across steemit (like I did last year). They won't take the time to go through any of that. If there is problems at the sign up, and steemit is telling them they need a cellphone number, most people won't continue to read through the FAQ section.
I didn't know about AnonSteem. That's good to know there is at least something for people who want to pay and who are aware they can.
True - I can see this posing a problem. E.G People just giving up trying to join because they haven't got a cell phone. But where there's a will there's a way I suppose, and I can understand steemit not wanting to have people with multiple accounts spamming the feeds.
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