The Steem News @ 15 May 2024 : Engagement Challenge Season 18 - closing today

Applications are closing today for Season 18 of the Engagement Challenge.

SteemFest Korea is being held in Seoul on 25 May 2024.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about SBDs on HTX, SteemPro Blogs, Steemit Grid View, Steem in the Web 3.0 Era, Steem Lighting Africa, AI Newcomers, Real Communities, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Engagement Challenge Season 18

Steemit Inc is inviting communities to apply for Season 18 of the Engagement Challenge.

For Season 18 only five communities are being recruited instead of the usual six.

Communities also have to give the details of three Challenges in their applications.

The closing date for applications is today at 11:59 pm UTC...

• Steemit Update [ May 7th, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge - Applications Invited for Season 18

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2. STEEMFEST Korea

Steemians in South Korea are organising another SteemFest.

The Spring SteemFest is being held on Saturday 25 May 2024 in Seoul.

The festival will include a Steem Market & Bazaar, talks, My Steemit Story and a banquet...

• [Notice] Spring STEEMFEST Korea 2024 (5/25 2pm, Gangnam Station)

The Steem Market is looking for people with items to sell for STEEM...

• Participate in Steem Market

As part of the festival a 'Tell Us Your Steem Story' contest is being held with a prize pool of 2100 STEEM ...

• Please tell us your Steemit story (Total prize money: 2100 Steemit, until 5/15)

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Check out the 2023 SteemFest...

• https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VSdttxpADUs

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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 #18. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

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3. Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 17 - Week 6

The Week 6 Challenges for Season 17 of the Engagement Challenge have now been posted...

• Steemit Update [ May 13th, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 17 - Week 6

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4. SBDs now listed on HTX

Long time Steemian @jondoe spotted that SBDs are now listed on the HTX Exchange (formerly Huobi)...

• SBDs are listed on HTX!

The listing was announced by HTX on X...

• https://twitter.com/HTX_Global/status/1787800670747476002

SBDs are not directly listed on many exchanges. Upbit is the other main listing exchange...

• https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/steem-dollars/#Markets

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5. Developer Updates

Developer @faisalamin has posted an update on further enhancements to SteemPro Blogs...

• Latest fixes | SteemPro Blogs

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@hardphotographer is working on a Google Chrome Extension to provide a Grid View for steemit.com...

• Beta Steemit Grid View V 1.1 | Applications for Google Chrome!

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Korean witness developer @etainclub has posted a listing of his collection of 'Steem in the Web 3.0 Era' articles...

• Collection of STEEM serial articles in the Web3 era

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6. Steem Lighting Africa

Solar specialist @ubongudofot is making good progress with his next project to install a solar PV system to provide electricity for a school in Uyo, Nigeria...

• Steem Lighting Africa : A Proposed Budget to Install 3.5KVA Solar PV In Uyo High School, Uyo - Nigeria [14th May, 2024]

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7. Recommended Reads

@the-gorilla has been probing the problem of AI Newcomers 'infiltrating' the Steem platform.

Will we need X-ray vision to spot them in their tracks...

• Artificially "Intelligent" Newcomers

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Long time Steemian @denmarkguy considers what Communities on Steem should really be about...

• In Order to GROW a Community, You Must Have a Reason for People to Want to JOIN it!

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8. Contests on Steem

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

There are 104 contests in the latest list with over 800 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 15th May 2024

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.27	15 May '24 11.36am
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#365	15 May '24 11.36am
SBD price	US$ 3.59	15 May '24 11.36am
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	162,781 / day	15 May '24 11.36am
Page views (steemit.com)	250,609 / day	15 May '24 11.36am

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This is #530 (15 May '24) of this news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]