The Steem News @ 1 April 2024 : Engagement Challenge Season 17 - closing soon

The deadline for applications for Season 17 of the Engagement Challenge is fast approaching.

The Steem Video Contest now has a prize pool of over 44,000 SP in delegations.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Ingan.Elements, Steem in the Web3 Era, Steem Deflation, World Smile Project Food Donations, Steem Silver, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Engagement Challenge Season 17

Steemit Inc is inviting communities to apply for Season 17 of the Engagement Challenge.

The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Tuesday 2 April...

• Steemit Update [ March 26th, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge - Applications Invited for Season 17

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2. Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 16 - Week 6

The Week 6 Challenges for Season 16 of the Engagement Challenge have now been posted...

• Steemit Update [ April 1st, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 16 - Week 6

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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. Steem Video Contest

@xpilar has launched a contest for people to make promotional videos about Steem.

There is a prize pool of over 44,000 SP in delegations. The judges for the contest will be @xpilar, @stef1 and @pennsif.

The contest will be open until 15 April...

• PROMOTION STEEM, MAKE YOUR OWN VIDEO ABOUT STEEM. prize pool of at least 30500 SP in delegation to the winners

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4. Ingan.Elements & Web3.0

Korean witness developer @etainclub continues work on his new account exchange dApp 'ingan.elements'...

• [ingan.elements] updates - checking account and beneficiary

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He has also released another section of Chapter 5 of his book on Steem and Web3.0 looking at his personal contributions...

• [STEEM in the Web3 era] Chapter 5 Steam Witness - etainclub's contribution

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5. Steem Deflation

Steem analyst @remlaps has been checking on the Steem inflation rate, and has concluded that during the first quarter of this year Steem has been in a deflationary state...

• Checking in on Steem inflation: 2024/Q1 was deflationary

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6. World Smile Project Food Donations

World Smile Project founder @el-nailul writes that they will be donating food parcels to at least 30 local orphans in North Aceh during Ramadan...

• WSP International Will Donate Food Purcel Packages to Orphans In North Aceh

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7. Steem Silver

Even if the community hasn't currently got the resources to mint another Steem Silver Round, @welshstacker wonders if some other form of Steem branded silver might be worth considering.

Maybe a hand cast and hand stamped Steem Silver Bar...

• Aint no silver like community silver

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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 650 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts : Active Contest List on 01st Apr 2024

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.32	01 Apr '24 11.43pm
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#391	01 Apr '24 11.43pm
SBD price	US$ 4.60	01 Apr '24 11.43pm
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	139,713 / day	01 Apr '24 11.43pm
Page views (steemit.com)	217,738 / day	01 Apr '24 11.43pm

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This is #520 (01 Apr '24) of this news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]