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RE: How were the first accounts created on Steem?
Yes, good remark about the mined field. I thought that field meant that the account mined in the early days. It makes sense what you say, that it actually means that it was created through mining.
The account was created automatically if the miner specified in the config file didn't exist yet when it received a mining reward.
That sounds interesting. So, there was a config file for every user back then?
Miners had to run their own steemd nodes. Most people did not mine, just like most people now don't run witnesses.
It was sort of a two-step process. Step 1 was to complete a proof-of-work and get added to a queue for a turn to validate a block. Step 2 was for the miner at the top of the queue to witness a block as the 21st witness.
If I recall correctly, it was step 2 when the account got created.
Thank you, this gives us a better understanding on how the mining process worked.