Welcome to Saturday on Steem, where your feed is quiet and your VP can recharge nicely. It's a pity that there are likely new members waiting for an account to start out on Steem.
If we enter a bull market and this is the current situation where the chief account issuer is maxed out of account tokens to create accounts from, I will consider this part of the most recent fork a total failure.
Below is a table showing the top 20 or so 'account claimers', and how many accounts they have created from these claims so far, with a percentage claims/creates in the end column.
| Account | Claimed | Created | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| steem | 114191 | 111924 | 98.01% |
| smartsteem | 40997 | 17 | 0.04% |
| utopian-io | 30905 | 114 | 0.37% |
| blocktrades | 21656 | 4260 | 19.67% |
| appreciator | 21530 | 0 | 0.00% |
| ocdb | 21200 | 0 | 0.00% |
| steemhunt | 19540 | 2703 | 13.83% |
| buildawhale | 18798 | 0 | 0.00% |
| oracle-d | 18455 | 2610 | 14.14% |
| steempress-io | 11881 | 7 | 0.06% |
| rocky1 | 10917 | 1 | 0.01% |
| tasteem | 10185 | 37 | 0.36% |
| fundition | 9723 | 67 | 0.69% |
| postpromoter | 9677 | 529 | 5.47% |
| esteemapp | 6629 | 3 | 0.05% |
| theycallmedan | 6628 | 16 | 0.24% |
| booster | 6371 | 238 | 3.74% |
| upme | 5161 | 212 | 4.11% |
| upmyvote | 4961 | 505 | 10.18% |
| tipu | 4840 | 6 | 0.12% |
| actifit | 3988 | 115 | 2.88% |
Steem are the biggest claimers, and are also almost at capacity with 98% of these accounts taken. However, they could go an account claim token spree as they have plenty of RCs in the tank - maybe this isn't the reason for the delay in account creations via this account.
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And then we skip a few rows down the list of creators to these guys:
| Account | Claimed | Created | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| steemmonsters | 2889 | 2689 | 93.08% |
| partiko | 2264 | 2264 | 100.00% |
Seems clear to me that these accounts are also in dire need of account claim tokens to on-board users at the rate that they are wanting to get through the door, via these apps.
The problem is though that at present, it is not possible to transfer these tokens to other accounts. It could be that the owner of 
Not everyone is going to be an on-boarding gateway (like myself), and so we need an easy way to pass on our account claim tokens to the apps we want to support.
At this point, it does look like a market will form around these tokens - I had hoped the best on-boarding apps would be given them as a show of appreciation from the community.
Anyway, something needs to happen to get these tokens moved (for free or otherwise) to the right places. Is this a job only Steemit Inc can do?
Happy Saturday all
Cheers
Asher