To me, this is one of the greatest scalability issues steem is facing / going to face. Making it easy for ppl to sign up, i.e. growing the network, is a huge problem right now. For example, we gave up waiting for my bro Hive account@uvictor.ochi to get an account thru steemit and just created one thru blocktrades...

Anyone else had it take forever for their friends to get an account from Steemit?