good point about the free account creation mechanism. While it costed at least 0.1 STEEM before, it is fully free now. I guess the whole signup process is a tricky balance between convenience for genuine users and public perception one one hand, and a burden for abusers on the user hand. But seeing wait times of several weeks isn't the best advertisement anyway. Apart from abuse prevention, the new account creations are currently at an year to date low while still taking most of @steem's RC - I wonder to which extend the account creation process could scale at all?