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RE: Mass Account Creation – Steem Abuse?
That fact that I don;t really understand enough yet to identify potential abuse doesn't matter - the fact that YOU care enough to observe, alert, share, post and care about the future of STEEM and our blockchain is one of the things that will help to ensure it flourishes and grows. Kudos to you from Thailand.
I am with you there. What use case do you suspect it would be used for, spamming?
Could be that, or pushing a certain interest-idea-product-business? Or vote-payout manipulation. I'm far too new and uneducated in steem (today is day 44 only for me!) to say. :)
One simple answer - selling accounts. Creating lot of traffic in making them for free, so everyone is waiting long and I can offer selling them.
Second - every account gets delegation of 15SP. Take couple of hundreds of them, implement a script, and upvote one specific user to get money of reward poll.
Those are from the top of my head...
damn... makes sense
Here I've put some more examples of abuse.