The Steem News @ 25 July 2024 : Community Curators for August - Closing Soon

Applications for the August Community Curators close tomorrow.

A Proposal to use the DAO to buy and burn STEEM is being discussed.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about a Venezuela Meetup, Summer SteemFest Korea 2024, @the-gorilla's DAO project, SteemChat.org, Botto Steem, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Community Curators for August - Closing Soon

Steemit Inc is inviting applications for Community Curators for August.

Applications are invited from teams of one, two or three people.

Each team must have a total combined SP of at least 60000 SP, although the minimum SP requirement for each team member is now only 2000 SP.

For teams of two or three, the members should all be of different nationalities and live in different regions of the world.

The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Friday 26 July 2024...

• Steemit Update [ July 18th, 2024 ] : Community Curators for August - Applications Open

There are applications from 16 teams so far...

• https://steemit.com/created/curatorapplication

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2. Using the DAO to burn STEEM...

The idea is currently being discussed to create a proposal to use SBDs from the DAO to buy and burn STEEM.

There are three aspects to the idea...

1. SBDs should be a stable coin equating to one US dollar. SBDs have been trading much higher than $1 for some time. The aim of the proposal would be to push SBDs down towards becoming a dollar pegged stable coin again.

2. As the SBD value goes down, the buying and burning of STEEM should increase the value of STEEM. This will be like burnsteem25 but on a much bigger scale.

3. Reducing the large amount of SBDs currently on the DAO will make it less of a target for an unwanted 'attack' of any kind as discussed by @remlaps recently.

This idea of a proposal to the DAO is still in the early stages of discussion among witnesses and community leaders, and thoughts and contributions are invited from the whole community. @jondoe has made a post about the idea to kickstart the discussion...

• Thoughts on a Proposal to Buy and Burn STEEM using the DAO

When a full Proposal to the DAO is produced it will require the support of the community to vote it above the Return Proposal and become actively funded as has happened with the current development proposal from @the-gorilla.

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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 is now at #19. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

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3. Venezuela Meetup : 10 August

Another Steem Meetup is being planned in Venezuela.

The event is taking place in Venezuela's second largest city, Maracaibo, in the state of Zulia on Saturday 10 August 2024.

It is hoped that as many Steemians as possible from the states of Zulia, Lara and Falcón will be able to attend.

The meetup is being organised by @anailuj1992, @adeljose and @fjjrg from Zulia state, @alejos7ven and @vivigibelis from Lara state, and @yancar for the state of Falcón....

• Tercer Avance del Meet Up Centroccidente 2024

• Maracaibo ¡Few days to go! - Meet Up Centroccidente, August, 2024. Falcón, Lara and Zulia

• Meet Up Centroccidente Donations Report

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4. Summer SteemFest Korea 2024

The Steem community in South Korea are organising a second major meetup for the year.

Summer SteemFest Korea 2024 will take place over the weekend of Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 October 2024.

The event is being held at Cheongpodae Sunset Pension, at Cheongpodae Beach in Nam-myeon, Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-do.

The theme of the SteemFest is 'Family and Travel'.

Activities will include Clam digging, a Juggling Workshop, a Sand Art contest, a diving competition, a treasure hunt, and a talent show...

• [Registration Notice] Summer STEEMFEST Korea 2024 : 10/5(Sat.) - 6(Sun.)

• Spring STEEMFEST Korea 2024

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5. DAO Watch : The-Gorilla

@the-gorilla continues to post updates on his DAO funded protect to modernise steemit.com.

He has recently been working on the Pinned Posts Carousel, and the Community Cover Image and Avatar...

• Proposal-86: Communities Update

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6. SteemChat.org

The @stmpak.wit witness development team led by @blockseater have announced the launch of their SteemChat decenterlized messaging platform.

To reflect that the app is not an official Steemit Inc development the name has been changed to SteemChat.org...

• Try steemchat.org E2EE chat portal

You can log in to SteemChat with Keychain or Steem Login...

• https://steemchat.org/

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7. Botto Steem

The @xpilar team have launched Botto Steem - a collection of automation tools including a Curation Trail, the Fanbase auto voting system, auto claiming and post scheduling.

It also includes a service for leasing spare Steem Power like the old DLease system...

• ANN POST -- BOTSTEEM -- A replacement to World of Xpilar Automation tools

• Harnessing the Power of BotSteem: Guide to Automated Voting, Rewards, and Delegations Securly with Botto

• Botto Development Achievements

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8. Contests on Steem

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

There are 107 contests in the latest list with over 700 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts : Active Contest List on 25th July 2024

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.19	25 Jul '24 6.42pm
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#390	25 Jul '24 6.42pm
SBD price	US$ 2.55	25 Jul '24 6.42pm
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	169,128 / day	25 Jul '24 6.42pm
Page views (steemit.com)	303,380 / day	25 Jul '24 6.42pm

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This is #536 (25 Jul '24) of this news service.

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