Awesome, thanks for this response!
That's
and
- all three accounts are part of the initial bootstrapping configuration of the blockchain.
makes sense. Does
still have a special meaning?
The transactions to create accounts via mining were proof-of-work operations, pow, and later pow2 - the resulting rewards could be either vested to existing or new accounts
So, to create a new account, the actual operation was vesting? A miner used his rewards to vest to a non-existent username?
RE: How were the first accounts created on Steem?