The Steem News @ 17 October 2022 : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 5 Week 2
The Steemit Engagement Challenge has now moved into week 2 of Season 5.
Power Ups and Burn Ups are both on the Up.
Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about the Steem Backup Data Service, the Steem Video Contest, Solar Steem, Steem Security, Showcase Interviews, Food on Steem, and Contests on Steem...
1. Engagement Challenge - Season 5 Week 2
Season 5 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge has now moved into week 2.
Week 2 of Season 5 has contests about medical experiences, home sweet home, images and stories, behavioural traits, natural disasters, animals and the Steem blockchain...
2. Power Ups Still on the Up
The latest stats from @remlaps this week have revealed another small increase in the amount of STEEM that is powered up.
The past week has seen a 381K SP (0.25%) increase to 164,617,475 STEEM powered up, equivalent to a value of $37,327,177...
3. Burning STEEM
@remlaps also 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.
The total burnt since June has now exceeded 130K SP...
4. Steem Backup Data Service
Witness @ety001 has moved the hosting of the Steem Backup Data Service (with all the files for witness nodes) from Wasabi to Hetzner...
He has also posted a guide for witnesses on how to deploy an Account History node with an official docker image...
5. Steem Video Contest
The Steem Video Contest organised by @xpilar has three more days to run until the closing date of 20 October.
The judges for the contest are @xpilar, @stef1 and @pennsif...
The prize pool for the contest has now been increased further to 33,000 SP thanks to a generous offer from @lavanyalakshman...
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...
Thank you.
6. Solar Steem Update
World Smile in Nigeria is now only 89 STEEM away from its funding target for the second phase of the solar project that @ubongudofot is coordinating...
7. Steem Security
Community leader @rme has posted the first two parts of his comprehensive guide to Steem account security...
8. Showcase Interviews
@ubongudofot has also done two more of his Showcase interviews recently - one with @dexsyluz from Venezuela and the other with @goodybest from Nigeria...
9. Food on Steem
@ponpase has announced that the Steemit Travel community is expanding its remit to cover food topics...
@steemit-ironchef has welcomed @dasudi as the new Steemit Iron Chef Community Team Leader...
Nigeria Country Rep @goodybest has launched 'The African Kitchen Show'. She has kicked off the show with Plantain Porridge...
10. Contests on Steem
@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.
There are 75 contests in the latest list with over 650 STEEM in prizes...
Congratulations @disconnect on reaching your 500th edition !
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]
| STEEM price | US$ 0.23 | 17 Oct '22 1.06pm UTC |
| STEEM price | 0.00001174 BTC | 17 Oct '22 1.06pm UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #199 | 17 Oct '22 1.06pm UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 2.29 | 17 Oct '22 1.06pm UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 133,966 / day | 17 Oct '22 1.06pm UTC |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 276,790 / day | 17 Oct '22 1.06pm UTC |
This is #462 (17 Oct '22) of this daily news service.
[ graphics by @pennsif ]
Muchas gracias por la mención de la entrevista de @ubongudofot en la que participé. 🥰
Fue un momento divertido compartir con un Steemian de otro lenguaje, a pesar de eso, las barreras no pudieron impedir que la entrevista fluyera
En espera de la próxima Steen News!
It was a great interview.
Next Steem News coming out imminently...
Thank you for the wish and your continuous support. You are one of the reason I came so far.
Good luck with the next 500 !
Aww 🥰 thank you so much for mentioning my show. I do appreciate!
You are welcome.
This post has been translated and reposted in the Steem Indonesia Community
Thank you very much for this.
Thanks so much for the mention!!! And the updates of the week!!!
I'm happy to be able day by day to work on #steemit-ironchef to grow hand in hand together with a great team @ciru2014 and @mvchacin and achieve to be the leading food community!!!! We have a lot to do!!!
Greetings
Good luck in your new role in Steemit Iron Chef.
Thank you very much for adding us to the list of NEWS updates.
With the opening of the topic of food in steemit travel, we hope this will be an opportunity for all users to increase their contribution and creativity on the platform.
We are also happy to see that the post of the steemit account security guide made by @rme has entered the news list this week. Because it's important, and I hope it can be adopted and extended to the New Comer community,
Thank you for this notification.
Regards,
Hope it goes well with the food articles.
I really believe, with the support of steemians, @pennsif.witness will reach the top and become the top. With your experience in steemit, they believe you can bring changes in steemit for future progress.
I do hope so.
Thank you for your support.
Everyone expects that @pennsif