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RE: Witness Update: 0.19.11 and 0.2 Account Creation Fee

There's also been some talk among witnesses about increasing the account creation fee from 0.1 to 0.2 which means from 3 STEEM to 6 STEEM. I'm going to go ahead and make this change to my witness parameters because with the cryptocurrency markets down and STEEM below $1 at the moment, I wouldn't want someone to see the Steem blockchain as a target and easily spam it with new account creations.

Usually more accounts are created when Steem is at a higher price since people see a bigger chance of making money through posting so I actually see the blockchain be less spammed with account creation when Steem is at 1$.
However some accounts that are already in Steem may consider in creating secondary accounts during this time.
It is a tough call to make since someone might take advantage as said in the post by creating spam accounts.
For the moment the @humanheart witness will remain with a 0.1 fee even though there are strong incentives in changing it to 0.2
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