The Steem News @ 24 March 2021 - Steem's 5th Birthday & SPUD4STEEM coming up
Happy 5th birthday Steem !
And in just over a week it is time for another SPUD4STEEM.
Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about World of Xpilar Art Masterclasses, PLAY STEEM, Nutbox, Japan Community, another house that Steem built, Steem Sri Lanka, a 100 STEEM giveaway and many more contests...
1. Steem Turns Five
The first block was produced on the Steem blockchain on 24 March 2016.
Five years on Steem has seen several changes in management and ownersip but has grown to become the premier social platform in the crypto world.
With the recent resurgence in the price of STEEM the whole community is looking forward to what the next five years will bring...
2. SPUD4STEEM on 1 April
SPUD4STEEM organiser @kiwiscanfly has posted a reminder that the next Steem Power Up Day is now only a week away on 1 April.
There is 21,000 SP of delegation in the prize pool for those with the biggest percentage powerups.
The prize delegations this month are being provided by generous supporters @xpilar, @steem.history, @hingsten, @bippe, @kiwi-crypto, @steem-supporter, @steemchiller, @kiwiscanfly, @randulakoralage, @adeljose and @mariana4ve...
3. World of Xpilar Art Masterclasses
As part of the '14 Days of Diving' newcomers support project in the World of Xpilar Community @bambuka has announced plans for new art masterclasses.
The 'Drawing a portrait with a pencil' class is one potential masterclass that will be run by master Vasily Tyorkin. Weekly homework tasks will be set for the participants....
4. PLAY STEEM : How to Favourite an Author
Developer @etainclub has posted a tutorial on how to use the feature to favourite an author on the new PLAY STEEM app...
@etainclub has also posted his initial findings with learning Flutter to develop a PWA (Progressive Web App) for PLAY STEEM...
5. Nutbox Weekly Updates
@nutbox.mine has published its weekly progress update. It now has almost 6 Million SP in its delegation pool from over 280 delegators. The APY of SP delegation mining is 77.6%.
Nutbox is a discentalized protocol with a front end, providing Staking Coin Offering and decentralized application toolkit，which includes DeFi module...
Nutbox will help the community establish its "Staking +DeFi"-based community token economy...
One community member submitted his two issues this past week under the Nutbox Bug Bounty program.
This Bug Bounty will run for one more month...
6. Japan Community Curation Account
@tomoyan, one of the Admins along with @cryptokannon of the new Japan Community, has announced the establishment of a community curation account @japansteemit...
7. Another House that Steem Built...
@sultan-aceh of World of Xpilar has started a project to raise the funds to build fellow Indonesian Steemian @tailah.bayu a new house after his current dwelling has become uninhabitable.
@sultan-aceh has previously built his own house through Steem with the help of @xpilar...
8. Steem Sri Lanka Charity Update
@steem-sri.lanka has posted an update on their SL-Charity project.
They have so far collected over 500 STEEM...
9. If I Gave You 100 STEEM...
Steem promoter @stephenkendal has launched a fun contest asking "If I gave you 100 STEEM what would you do with it?".
People just have to give their answer to that question in a comment to be in with a chance of winning the 100 STEEM...
10. Contests, Contests, Contests...
As an offshoot of Steem News @pennsif now publishes a daily listing of the 'soon to close' contests on Steem...
Compilations of many current contests on Steem have been posted by Best of India Community leader @rishabh99946...
And by @masumrbd of the Bangladesh Community...
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]
| STEEM price | US$ 0.713 | 25 Mar '21 0.23am UTC |
| STEEM price | 0.00001326 BTC | 25 Mar '21 0.23am UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #150 | 25 Mar '21 0.23am UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 7.17 | 25 Mar '21 0.23am UTC |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) | #23,171 | 25 Mar '21 0.23am UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 192,267 / day | 25 Mar '21 0.23am UTC |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 403,761 / day | 25 Mar '21 0.23am UTC |
This is #319 (24 Mar '21) of this daily news service.
[ graphics & images by @pennsif ]
And what a 5 years it has been haha.....there's a mini series or Trilogy waiting to be produced :)
Yes not long till our April Fools #SPUD4STEEM Edition
🥔🌏🥔🌏🥔
I wonder who would be cast to play the lead roles?
Must be a contest in there I think...
mmm the mind boggles
Some of these could..
Steem Cast season 1 picture credit
😂😂
😀