The Steem News @ 1 January 2023 : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 7

Steemit has announced the communities for Season 7 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge.

Pennsif is running a What3Words contest in the run up to The Big 80 Challenge.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Power-Ups & Burning Steem, a 1500 STEEM Crypto Price Prediction Contest, Steem Communities, Target December Season 3, AI Steem Coding and Contests on Steem...

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1. Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 7

Steemit has announced the communities selected for Season 7 of the Engagement Challenge.

Joining Steemit Crypto Academy on the challenge are Incredible India, Steem4Bloggers, Steem Entrepreneurs, Steem for Pakistan, Steemit Iron Chef, and Steem Venezuela...

• Steemit Update [ December 30th, 2022 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Communities for Season 7

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2. The Big 80 - What3Words

In the run-up to the launch of the Big 80 challenge, community witness @pennsif has published a contest all about What3Words.

Understanding how to use What3Words will be vital for success in the 80 day Big 80 contest.

There is a prize pool of 10 STEEM, 100 TRX, 1000 SP delegation, so now is definitely a good time to get learning about What3Words.

The closing date for the Anagram contest is 11.00pm UTC on Thursday 5 January 2023...

• [CONTEST] THE BIG 80 : What is What3Words [10 STEEM, 100 TRX, 1000 SP in Prizes]

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Pennsif's Big 80 Anagram contest is also still running until 11.00pm UTC on Tuesday 3 January 2023...

• [CONTEST] THE BIG 80 : All About Anagrams [10 STEEM, 100 TRX, 1000 SP in Prizes]

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Pennsif the Witness

After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.

I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness

If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.

You can read my full witness announcement here...

• pennsif.witness Witness Campaign Post

@pennsif.witness has now reached #20. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

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3. Power Ups Edge Up

The latest stats from @remlaps this week have revealed a small increase in the amount of STEEM that is powered up.

The past week has seen a 267KSP (0.16%) increase to 166,884,961 STEEM powered up, equivalent to a value of $24,484,193...

• Steem Total Value Powered Up - $24 million - January 1, 2023

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@remlaps continues to track the impact of Steemit's burnsteem25 campaign encouraging people to set a 25% beneficiary to @null to reduce the amount of STEEM, which potentially will increase its value.

In the past week there have been 812 burnsteem25 posts.

The total burnt since June has now exceeded 207K SP...

• Burned tokens, rewards, and inflation summary December 31, 2022 - Total burn estimates: 207K STEEM/SP and 64 SBD

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4. Crypto Price Prediction Contest

Community Leader @rme is running a Crypto Price Prediction with a massive 1500 STEEM prize pool.

To enter you must give your predictions and analysis for the price of BTC, STEEM, SBD, TRX and HIVE in 2025...

• নতুন বছরের শুভেচ্ছা সহ মজার একটি প্রতিযোগিতা (New Year Contest : Crypto Price Prediction for 2025)

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5. Steem Communities

@ubongudofot has done his third monthly review of the state of communities on Steem...

• The steemit Grandmaster 3 - Surviving communities for December, 2022

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6. Target December Season-3

My Bangla Blog Admin @rex-sumon has launched a new season of the Target December power up campaign.

For Season 3 the target is to get 75 people powered up to Dolphin status by next December...

• Target December Season-3

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7. Artificial Steem

Developer @remlaps has used the new AI ChatGPT to write code to get a Steem account's current voting power.

The results are surprising...

• Just for fun: Writing python code with ChatGPT to get a Steem account's current voting power

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8. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.

There are 66 contests in the latest list with over 2900 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on Beginning of 2023 - Win 2900+ STEEM

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.15	02 Jan '23 0.32am UTC
STEEM price	0.0000898 BTC	02 Jan '23 0.32am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#264	02 Jan '23 0.32am UTC
SBD price	US$ 2.11	02 Jan '23 0.32am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	147,720 / day	02 Jan '23 0.32am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	282,146 / day	02 Jan '23 0.32am UTC

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This is #481 (1 Jan '23) of this daily news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]