Hello Steemians! After HF20, if you have enough Resource Credits (RC), you will be able to claim accounts for free. There is no need to use the account immediately after claiming and it can be stored as "Pending claimed accounts". 

So I have been thinking, if I want to create an application on the Steem platform, one of the things that I will do is to accumulate a good number of accounts so that I can build a sign-up process for new users. **So in my opinion, the accounts with large number of accumulated "Pending claimed accounts" are probably planning for something big. They are likely collecting these accounts so that they can onboard large number of users in a very short span of time.** 

Being curious, I started searching on Google on any existing services that have ranked accounts with the most "Pending claimed accounts". Unfortunately, I am unable to find any of such service (do let me know if there is one). Without an existing service, I guessed I had to take things into my own hands. Thus, I wrote a script to find out for myself.

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## A Simple Script

The following script is written with Beempy and it is just a simple one which searches through all Steem accounts, check the "pending_claimed_accounts" attribute and keep track of the top 10 accounts.

```	
	stm = Steem()
	blockchain = Blockchain()	
	topten = {'1': 0, '2': 0, '3': 0, '4': 0, '5': 0, '6': 0, '7': 0, '8': 0, '9': 0, '10': 0}
	
	accts = blockchain.get_all_accounts()
	for acct in accts:
		account = Account(acct, steem_instance=stm)	
		print(acct + "," + str(account["pending_claimed_accounts"]))
		if account["pending_claimed_accounts"] > topten.get(min(topten, key=topten.get)):
			topten.pop(min(topten, key=topten.get))
			topten.update({acct:account["pending_claimed_accounts"]})
		print(topten)
```

And after running the script against more than a million accounts (which took me days), I found the  top 5 😎. Without further ado, here are the top 5 at the point of writing this article...

<center>![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/culgin/aMcfaz7C-image.png)</center>
*[Source](https://www.flickr.com/photos/117427305@N05/42298268845)*

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## The Top 5

### <center>First Place: @smartsteem with 9010 "Pending Claimed Accounts"</center>

<center>![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/culgin/g5lZ8KEr-image.png)</center>

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### <center>Second Place: @steem with 8405 "Pending Claimed Accounts"</center>	

<center>![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/culgin/y2RSqg3l-image.png)</center>

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### <center>Third Place: @appreciator with 7218 "Pending Claimed Accounts"</center>	

<center>![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/culgin/4rYhIXo1-image.png)</center>

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### <center>Fourth Place: @postpromoter with 5494 "Pending Claimed Accounts"</center>	

<center>![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/culgin/v1oLif9e-image.png)</center>

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### <center>Fifth Place: @buildawhale with 5028 "Pending Claimed Accounts"</center>	

<center>![image.png](https://files.steempeak.com/file/steempeak/culgin/PIVFcftj-image.png)</center>

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It is going to be interesting how these accounts will be using all these "Pending claimed accounts". I hope they have big plans in mind. Did any of them surprised you? How do you think they will use these accounts? Thanks for reading!

![steem-divider1.png](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmPsAtjgRpyLH3o5p6zEvihF9fGkhL4uXPVJUysEwdyD5r)

**Projects/Services I am working on:**
- [Steem-Oracle Project](https://steemit.com/steemoracle/@culgin/the-steem-oracle-project-harnessing-the-wisdom-of-steemians)
- [Byteball to Steem conversion service](https://steemit.com/byteball/@culgin/i-am-running-a-service-to-convert-byteball-to-steem)

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**You can find me in these communities:**

<center>[<img src="https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmQoa55t8qhBSYpGd4zqrmy264wWE8RUbn8P4ZZRGKBvko">](https://discord.gg/YJG6j7p)</center>

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