I don't own a mobile phone, i know that is rare in todays world, but i don't have much of a social life, so i wanted to make a steem account using cli_wallet.
As far as i can vaguely find you need a account to make a account.
Do you need to pay with that pre-existing account for making that account? Or where does that 7 steem power come from which you supposedly get when you create an account with cli_wallet.
What are the costs? and if any does that mean someone from steemit is paying everyone for making a account on steemit?
Also to use cli_wallet, do i need to follow this entire process: https://www.steem.center/index.php?title=How_to_obtain_the_STEEM_client
Or is there a more minimal way to just get cli_wallet? (i'm running linux mint 18.2, in other words ubuntu 16.04)