Alright, from what I understand of what's planned, there's some misconceptions here.

Where is anyone talking about a token for account creation? I haven't heard that anywhere.

From what I understand regarding mining and accounts is that you'll be able to set an account name in your steemd node, specify a public/private key pair for it, and then once you find a block, that account is created. This is how it was when Steem first launched and I assume it would be how this new system would work.