We have no network effect because of account creation.

Easy and fast accounts mean, Friends can invite friends.

You you tell them they have to pay, it looks like a ponzi.

There is no benefit for average user to come to steem.

• They will never buy Steem

• They will not post awesome content ( more Instagramm like posts)

But we need them. If Steem is used by the masses, it is worth to build on steem.

If nobody use it, it is worth nothing.

I think with RC steem is save for spam ( i know its impossible to stay 100% save), so accounts should be so cheap tribes, front ends, Games.... can easy use them without they have to pay thousends of steem.

Every User of Steem makes Steem more valuable.

Burn Steem? Make a account creation pool........

Wait some years more, the tech is old and the current community is dead.