Great work, Asher! I've been wondering if we're even somewhere close the limit of how many accounts can be created via RCs. Your work confirms that there are plenty of account creation tokens unused at the moment, ready to grow Steem. @steem could create way more accounts than they currently do, and so could other dApps and accounts. Now we "only" need real users to grab them :)

From what I've seen on the @steem account and also on others, they seem to claim new accounts at a regular basis, probably whenever the RC balance allows it? @steem not creating any new accounts throughout December (?) certainly made them accumulate quite a lot of tokens. So there's a chance that the current picture for @steem may be slightly skewed. From what I've seen, at least some of the high-SP accounts have a system in place to regularly claim accounts (since it's free after all), but are currently lacking the infrastructure behind to hand those out to new users (which can be quite some work, esp. if they want to provide recovery options...). Let's hope that this is solved soon.

It's interesting to see how the RC costs for the claims changed! I didn't even remember that it was as low as at 2500 GRC in beginning of October. The current value of below 9000 GRC is actually quite cheap compared to the costs in the last few weeks. beempy.com has this covered, here's the current state:

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