The Steem News @ 8 May 2021 - Steem Climbs Again & Powering Up to Win...
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STEEM has climbed again and is holding well above a dollar.
Power Up contests offer a double win.
Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Minnow Mentorships, Promo Steem, Project Affable, the Steem Sri Lanka Charity, Four Ways to Grow Steem, some useful guides and how-to's, and many more contests...
1. STEEM holding up over $1
The STEEM price moved up over $1 over the last couple of days.
It peaked at over $1.40 before settling back around $1.20.
Coincidentally in the last couple of days Steemit.com has climbed back into the top 20,000 sites worldwide again according to the Alexa.com rankings...
2. Power Up Contests
The more we all power up our STEEM the more the STEEM price should go - especially if we buy STEEM on exchanges as well.
The SPUD4STEEM event run @kiwiscanfly encourages everyone once a month to power up, now in between times there are several power up contests including one from @irawandedy with 60 STEEM in prizes and another from @nahidhasan23 with 10 STEEM on offer...
@vipnata also has an 'I Buy STEEM' contest with a 30 STEEM prize pot...
3. Let's Make Minnows : Minnow Mentorships Available
If you are a newcomer and getting to your first 500 SP seems like a distant dream, long time Steemian @pennsif is offering help and guidance under a new 'Let's Make Minnows' project.
@Pennsif is offering 'Minnow Mentorships' to 10 people who would like support to fast-track to 500 SP...
4. Promo Steem Proliferating
Promo Steem activities are springing up all around the world.
@stephenkendal is sponsoring T-shirts for @bangmimi's youth project in Indonesia...
@pojan has been providing food parcels and promoting Steem to recycling workers at the Alue Liem city waste dump also in Indonesia. This is part of his wider Steem for SDG's sustainability project...
@mcsamm has been expanding @whitestallion's Campus Connect project to universities and colleges in Ghana...
@juichi has been helping newcomers and promoting Steem in a Catholic Church in Japan...
@linlada639 has been holding video meetings with @pichat and @nessie2645 to plan Promo-Steem activities to rebuild the Steem community in Thailand...
5. Project Affable Expands
@sapwood has been working with developers @neerajkr03 and @starlord28 to automate and scale-up Project Affable to encourage engagement on posts.
The prize pool for May is a massive 385 STEEM...
6. Steem Sri Lanka Charity Phase II
@sl-charity has announced the second phase of its aid distribution project.
Because of Covid-19 and the lockdown this phase is being reworked to avoid physical visits.
Over 1000 STEEM will be provided for house repairs, emergency medical assistance and Covid-19 testing...
@damithudaya has provided details of the house renovation project...
7. Four Ways to Grow Steem
Long time Steemian @jondoe has put forward some ideas and suggestions that he believes would give a major boost to Steem.
These include an internal market for STEEM/TRX, a STEEM Defi ecosystem, Justin Sun posting on Steemit.com first and and STEEM being listed on JustSwap...
8. Guides & How To's
@steem-ghana has posted a useful guide on how to use tags effectively on Steemit...
Scout Communty Leader @fjjrg has put out some guidance on how to use @steemchiller's Steemorld.org...
9. Contests, Contests, Contests...
As an offshoot of Steem News @pennsif now publishes a daily listing of the 'soon to close' contests on Steem...
@habercitr who runs the Steemit Contest Club Community has produced a compilation of current contests on Steem...
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]
STEEM price | US$ 1.19 | 9 May '21 4.08am UTC |
STEEM price | 0.00002028 BTC | 9 May '21 4.08am UTC |
CoinMarketCap Ranking | #140 | 9 May '21 4.08am UTC |
SBD price | US$ 7.58 | 9 May '21 4.08am UTC |
Alexa rank (steemit.com) | #19,838 | 9 May '21 4.08am UTC |
Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 192,267 / day | 9 May '21 4.08am UTC |
Page views (steemit.com) | 615,255 / day | 9 May '21 4.08am UTC |
This is #349 (8 May '21) of this daily news service.
[ graphics & images by @pennsif ]
Good Breakdown!
I'm sure you've done a really good job of getting to steem for $ 10.
Thank you very much for every information I get ..
Hopefully it will get to $10 soon !
I'm sure you've done a really good job of getting to steem for $ 10.
Thank you very much for every information I get
Greetings @pennsif
Weldon good job!
Thank you for the break down you have done well.
Thank you for this informative post. I hope Steem progresses even more in the future.
#affable
noice
i like it!
Very good post and the contest too.
Thank you.
Astonishing. Out of this planet plans. Kudos pals
Wow... There's still a lot of folks here.
Promo-steem activities through the Zoominar App check here