>@ackza wrote: I think @ned wants to perhaps protect the Steem Namespace which is important because once someone just tries taking up all the popular names.

>@timcliff wrote: There was never really a plan for account creation to be "free". There was plans for their to be three ways:

>- Standard" (fee based)
>- Discounted" (uses discount tokens, which will be acquired based on stake)
>- Anonymous" (POW)

If protecting name-space is the idea<b>, then why not just make it so that an account generated with POW needs to have at least one number in it?</b> examples: @james1 @Name77 @Ned82 @John1975 @Atari007 etc?

Would that be an agreeable solution? @ackza, @timcliff, @surfyogi? We have had a lot, and I really mean a lot of users coming to @SteemSpeak telling us they have been waiting 7,14,21,a month for their steem account to be approved, we heard from STEEMIT that there was waiting lists and the POW idea would solve at least that problem so we can grow the user base faster.

Once a user has got a STEEM account, secured their keys etc, there are easy ways to buy SteemPower on steemit.com via Blocktrades & GoPax, or with FIAT on @Bittrex via BTC if they have a minimum mini bandwidth to at least power up.

<b>We should really remove bandwidth requirements on PowerUP</b>, I cannot think of one idea why having any default restriction on PowerUP is necessary, do you guys?

So to be clear what was stated before creating accounts in browser or not requiring delegation to up vote comment and such is out. At least with sp delegation we could pull our power back from abusers, now we can be stuck with costly spammers and trolls.

so no more sp delegation, raise creation fee 30 times than it is now then burn it. This makes account creation even more expensive and makes it harder for startups to bring accounts to the blockchain.

This is deepening the dependence on steemit inc to generate accounts, or services who have hundreds of thousands of dollars to burn. Post promotion burn proved to be a failure so were going to try it on account creation sounds legit.

Though we do like the idea of account creation tokens, would we be able to donate these to other projects? Would they regenerate, and if so would they regenerate weekly, monthly or quarterly.