Bringing new people to Hive is one of our goals as a project. We want to become the best places for sports fans to come and talk about their teams. To accomplish that we need ways for new users to get started. We are happy to announce that SportsTalkSocial.com now offers our users the ability to purchase Hive accounts right from our site!
You can now visit SportsTalkSocial.com and create a new Hive account using Hive, HBD, AFIT or SPORTS. We've accomplished this by using the new DACTER tool that will let anyone pay 3 HIVE, 2 HBD, 1700 AFIT or 100,000 SPORTS and have a Hive account created right from the site.
5 Steps to Create An Account
1.) Visit SportsTalkSocial.com and click 'Sign up' in the upper right hand section of the site
2.) Type in your desired username and take note of your password. You'll also want to use 'Download Keys' to download a .txt file with your credentials. Be sure to keep this information safe. If you lose your credentials then we can not assist you with restoring access to your account.
3.) Select your payment option and verify the capatcha. We are launching with the following prices:
3 HIVE
2 HBD
100000 SPORTS
1700 AFIT
4.) Double check that you've properly stored the credentials for your new account. Once again we are not able to help you recover if you lose access to your account. Once you are sure you're ready to move forward click the checkbox to verify you have downloaded your keys and then click 'Sign up'.
5.) The popup will give you information you need for your transfer. Be sure to include your memo in your transfer. To make it simple you can also just click 'Pay with HiveSigner' and complete the payment that way.
Once your payment is processed the new account will be created and you're good to go. It was that simple!
We hope this makes it that much easier for new users to get started on the platform. Right now we see this primarily being used to create accounts for friends but it doesn't have to just be that way. We'll work on releasing another guide that focuses on creating an account with Bitcoin via the lightning network soon. This will let users be able to create an account even if they don't know anyone with Hive to pay the fees for them.
One step closer...