Seven months ago, @steem.ninja made a post titled Buy Steem.Accounts with PayPal.
I just checked the Steem Ninja website and the landing page had information about purchasing a e-book on becoming a "Steem Ninja" but no links to any account creation pages at all.
What's going on?
A separate account creation page still exists but there is no link to it from the landing page:
https://widget.steem.ninja/widget.html
You can still create an account but the only payment options are Ethereum or Redeeming a Voucher (what voucher?).
This is a major step back. AnonSteem enables anyone to purchase a Steem account with Bitcoin, Litecoin or STEEM.
As far as I know, there is no way to purchase an account with a credit card or with a bank transfer. This is a serious problem. The only way to buy STEEM without touching other crypto or going through a cryptocurrency exhange is to buy Splinterlands cards with a credit card from the Splinterlands shop. Then you can sell the card for STEEM and power up if you want.
I'd like to hear about an option to buy a Steem account with some Steem Power on it or a delegation without going through an exchange to get other cryptocurrencies. It should be a no-brainer that such a service should exist. Indeed, Steem Ninja used to provide that service.
I wonder what made them stop. Could they have had problems with the payment processors or something?