They make requests via a standard API that some whales make available for account creation to certain services. Those whales can and have run out of account tickets before with surges in new accounts.
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They make requests via a standard API that some whales make available for account creation to certain services. Those whales can and have run out of account tickets before with surges in new accounts.
IIRC, @yabapmatt said they were paying 3 Hive for the accounts, not using account credits.
Perhaps it has changed, when I looked at new accounts a few weeks ago they were being created with 'create claimed account' transactions.
Yep, I think they changed to buying them a while back. I just checked and found they are buying them currently: