The Steem News @ 8 September 2022 : Engagement Challenge - Season 4 Week 2

The Steemit Engagement Challenge has reached Week 2 of Season 4.

Powered Up STEEM continues to edge up.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Burning STEEM, the Free Education Centre in Aceh, the World Smile Project, Steem Outreach on Twitter, Steemit Pakistan, the Popular STEM community, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Engagement Challenge - Season 4 Week 2

The Steemit Engagement Challenge is still rolling on.

Week 2 of Season 4 has contests about breakfasts, healthy routines, CBDCs, drawing, products you like, scenic spots and decentralised finance...

• Steemit Update [ September 5th, 2022 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 4 - Week 2

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2. Powered Up STEEM moves up

The latest stats from @remlaps show another small increase in the amount of STEEM that is powered up.

The past week has seen a 300K (0.2%) increase to 157,905,028 STEEM powered up, equivalent to a value of $35,270,614...

• Steem Total Value Powered Up - $35 million - September 4, 2022

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3. Burning STEEM

@remlaps has also continued 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.

A daily All Time High of 727 SP burnt in beneficiary rewards was seen on 2 September...

• Burned tokens, rewards, and inflation summary September 3, 2022 - Total burn estimates: 80,692K STEEM/SP and 54 SBD

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4. Free Education Centre in Aceh

@klen.civil has posted another progress update on the Free Education Centre that the Steem charity World Smile Project is building in East Aceh.

The project is now approaching the half-way point...

• Official Report WSP : Contruction Progress of Free Education Center East Aceh 45% [September 6, 2022]

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@el-nailul reports on a meeting of the International Management Team of the World Smile Project.

To avoid cashing out large amounts of STEEM, the WSP Management Team has decided to concentrate of three existing projects - the Education Program in Venezuela administrated by @mariana4ve, the Solar System Program in Nigeria administrated by @ubongudofot, and the Training Centre In Indonesia administrated by @irawandedy...

• WSP INTERNATIONAL TEAM MANAGEMENT MEETING

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5. Steem Outreach on Twitter

Top 20 witness @symbionts has developed a new tool to help with Steem outreach on Twitter...

• Symbiont{s} | Twitter Outreach Tool is Finally Available for the Community (Open Source)

Steem_Insight is Open Source and available on GitHub...

• https://github.com/Symbiont-s/steem-to-twitter

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6. Steemit Pakistan Seeks Mods

Steemit Pakistan is looking to recruit new Moderators...

• We are Hiring new Moderators

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7. Mod-Bot : Community Moderation Tool

The Popular STEM community run by @cmp2020 and @remlaps is expanding the use of the new Mod-Bot tool to pin selected @null beneficiary posts...

• [Popular STEM|Announcement] Expanding our barebones visibility service - 5 pinned slots now available!

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@remlaps has also reactivated the 'Science and Technology on the Social Blockchain' Facebook page to help share STEM-related posts from the Popular STEM community...

• https://www.facebook.com/SciTechOnSteem

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8. Contests on Steem

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

There are 74 contests in the latest list with over 500 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 08th Sep 2022 – Win 500+ STEEM

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.22	08 Sep '22 2.18pm UTC
STEEM price	0.00001138 BTC	08 Sep '22 2.18pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#268	08 Sep '22 2.18pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 2.65	08 Sep '22 2.18pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	116,515 / day	08 Sep '22 2.18pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	214,388 / day	08 Sep '22 2.18pm UTC

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This is #448 (08 Sep '22) of this daily news service.

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