2021 has been an interesting year for new Hive accounts. Especially the second half when Splinterlands started creating accounts on a massive scale. 
Hive accounts can be created for free with enough resource credits or they can be created for a fee that is currently set at 3 HIVE. 

To create a Hive account with resource credits one needs to have enough Hive Power, somewhere at least 5k HP. The process of creating Hive accounts in this way is the users first claim account as an account token, that can be then used for creating accounts. Not all claimed accounts are created. Claimed accounts are not transferable yet. 


![01.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmRnG32hWf97yJuxGVYWeqdEs4apJqt9toyQPMHM99FHxh/01.png)



We will be looking into the following:
-	Number of accounts created per day 
-	Number of accounts created per month 
-	Total accounts created
-	Number of accounts claimed 
-	Claimed VS Created accounts
-	Top accounts creators
-	Top accounts claims

For context we will be looking at the period from the very beginning of the chain, **March 2016 till today.** 

# Number Of Accounts Created


Here is the chart for the overall accounts created. 


![image001.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmekm9ySbE6zaBCmqjgxzAKPU7oTsfDHHW3Ysqbcrx3B7N/image001.png)
 



Here we can see the two spikes in the overall period of Hive existence. First in 2017, especially towards the end of 2017 and the beginning of 2018. Then yet again just recently starting from August 2021 till now. 

On both of the occasions above, there was more then 20k Hive accounts created per day.  

In the period when the accounts creation was low there is just a few hundreds accounts created per day. 






**The monthly chart for new accounts looks like this:**




 ![image005.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmbnRrjDPpLujouL2mn2AwYbjaXNcqfUtMRujzW2ZAzcdu/image005.png)



We can notice the spike here as well, with the recent spike reaching higher heights on a monthly level. In September 2021 there has been almost 280k accounts created per month. October has also been great with 240k accounts. December is the last column on the chart but it is not over yet. 



# Total Accounts Created 

When we sum the above, we get this.


![image003.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmPzhkRhrZNqcFT1b97EbkZtnwfQWDiW7Ud9S7xadZeMUg/image003.png)



We can see here the increase in the numbers of accounts in 2017, when the accounts number reached more then 1M. The a period with a gradual increase and then even steeper growth in the last months, going from 1.5M to 2.3M in a few months. More then 800k accounts were in the last four months. 



Ona a **yearly** basis the numbers looks like this. 

| Year | Accounts created |
|------|------------------|
| 2016 | 124,981          |
| 2017 | 419,984          |
| 2018 | 640,608          |
| 2019 | 166,079          |
| 2020 | 75,395           |
| 2021 | 894,739          |



# Number Of Accounts Claimed 
Claimed accounts are like sort of a buffer of accounts. Accounts with high HP claim accounts that later can be used for accounts creation. Not all claimed accounts are created. 
Here is the chart. 
 

![image007.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmTnmcWH4D5JkiApvKwD5X3HRPawuEjkA3shmchQrCLntb/image007.png)



There as some oscillations in the number of claimed accounts per day, but overall, the number is around **2000** accounts claimed daily. 


In the hivesql database there is data for claimed accounts starting from September 2018, so I guess this option was enabled then. Since then, a total of 2.3M accounts were claimed, and from the quick analysis it looks like somewhere around 500k accounts tokens have been used. This means that users on Hive still hold around 1.8M accounts creation tokens. 


# Claimed VS Created Accounts

Here is the chart.

 
![image011.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmPEiP6LwhU9Z11fh89QCQzQ37GpeUnx9E8j4SpBkpCfgB/image011.png)

As mentioned, there is around 2k accounts claimed per day, while the number of accounts created can vary a lot. In the recent period the number of accounts created has surpassed the number of accounts claimed by a lot. 

# Top Accounts Creators

Here is who created most of the accounts in **2021**!

 
![image015.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmRR6QD6UyxksRgVptJe7EkEqBBZg5MGU5L181yJntLqxM/image015.png)

**@steemmonsters is on the top with 657k accounts created in 2021!**

From previous reports I know that Splinterlands have used all their claimed accounts and then they have paid for a lot of the accounts that they have created. More then 2M HIVE was burnt in the process. 

@ocdb is on the second spot with more then 120k accounts created. From what I have notice they seem to create accounts for the Splinterlands players in the last period. 




# Top Accounts Claims
At the end the chart for who has claimed most of the free accounts in 2021.
 

![image017.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmWyLfRaftC1CkGNPHbZiL3ZQNMY3FfEopZtzudjZCuA1T/image017.png)



This chart mostly follows the HP holdings that the accounts have. 
@ocdb has more then 120k accounts claimed this year, and from what we have seen from the above they have created around the same number of accounts in the year. The @appreciator account is on the second spot with just above 100k accounts claimed. @blocktrades comes on the third sport with almost 90k. 


Until now in 2021 there has been around 720k accounts claimed. Overall, this is the number of accounts that has been claimed in the last three years. 




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2021 has been a record year for accounts creation on Hive. The year will end with more than 900k accounts created out of the total of 2.4M. Splinterlands is the main reason for this with somewhere around 750k accounts created just for the game, and maybe more. 

For comparison Ethereum that has the most accounts from all the blockchain in crypto has 180M wallets. Bitcoin is closing on 100M. Even on a crypto level the numbers of Hive accounts can grow a lot from what is now.

Claiming accounts has been steady in all of the period. Claimed accounts are still not transferable, maybe it is time to make it so. I have heard some arguments against accounts tokens transfers and trading in general, like it will make users hoard more accounts and make them even more expensive. I generally don't agree with this, since we can see that claiming accounts comes from the top HP holders that are already doing it.  


All the best
@dalz

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