of the things some are bemoaning about HF17 is the end of mining. Mining can be used to create a new account, you can rent a server, or even just borrow a neighbour's wifi, run a mining node, and after a week or so maybe you can control a new account. It's not really anonmous, per se, but very few traces can be found. Someone may be able to figure out the IP address of the miner node, etc...

Long story short, it's DIY anonymous steem accounts. More or less. No mining means no on-chain way to do this.

So I have a suggestion. We have a special account called @null, who burns SBD (and steem maybe?) it is paid, by a special setting in the network consensus code. What about a special account that when you send a payment for the amount of the account creation (any excess is just powered up), with a memo specifying the desired username and the 4 public keys for the account?

It could also even automatically return insufficient payments by adding a return address (you could then use blocktrades to have that pipe into a new bitcoin wallet address).

You could then use services like blocktrades and others that enable the setting of a memo of the payment in an exchange (through tor, of course), pay in bitcoin or monero or whatever, out comes a steem payment with the correct memo, it goes to this account creator account, and creates the account with the money paid in, and the holder of the secret keys then has control of an account that has no trail back to themselves.

In HF17 there is also a nice change that allows users to create accounts by irrevocably delegating Steem Power. Anyone can now use this to create a new account, it becomes anonymous if they make no record of who has the key. But with my proposal for a special account creation account, you don't have to ask anyone to do it

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