The Steem News @ 14 March 2021 - PLAY STEEM for Android now released
PLAY STEEM for Android now released.
A new mobile app for Steem has been long awaited - now it is here.
Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about the Steemit New User Tracking system, the Project Hope Emergency Fund, World of Xpilar 14 Days of Diving, the STEEM price, the Where in the World is Steem mini-census, and many new contests...
1. PLAY STEEM for Android now released
Developer @etainclub has now released the Android installation file (apk) for PLAY STEEM.
PLAY STEEM has an impressive feature set including Push Notifications, In-App Translation, In-App Text to Speech, In-App Account Creation using Resource Credits, Switching Accounts, Setting Beneficiares, Bookmarking posts, Saving Drafts, and Auto complete tags...
It is hoped, Apple permitting, that an iOS version will follow soon.
2. Steemit New User Tracking Update
Developer and India Country Representative @neerajkr03 has posted an update on his Steemit New User Tracking project...
3. Project Hope Emergency Fund
Project Hope has announced that it is creating an emergency fund for unexpected medical expenses to the members of the Project Hope Core Team.
The fund will be managed by Jose Vasquez (@josevas217) and Jose Lanz (@lanzjoseg)...
4. World of Xpilar 14 Days of Diving
Organiser @bambuka has given an update on the 14 Days of Diving being run in the World of of Xpilar Community...
@xpilar has posted a reminder about nominating posts to receive an update from the World of Xpilar Curation Trail...
5. STEEM to $0.50 ?
@acom has posted an observation that while Bitcoin has now broken through $60,000 STEEM has been struggling to reach $0.50.
@acom remains optimistic for STEEM believing it is better to follow a path of steady upward growth than a sudden jump and a swift drop...
For reference STEEM briefly reached $0.49 a few hours ago, before falling back slightly.
6. Where in the World is Steem?
@pennsif has started a mini-census of Steem activity around the world.
The first post covers Europe. If you are in Europe let @pennsif know of any additions for your country...
7. New Contests
Steem is alive with new contests appearing every day.
Today's new batch includes A Better Photography contest from Steem SEA, the Unforgettable Italy contest from @girolamomarotta and the Italy Community, a Footballer Biography contest from @njaywan and the World of Football community and a Colour Palette challenge from @olesia and @dmitrik...
There really are so many contests on Steem that you could, in some countries, live just from entering contests !
Maybe that is a contest in its itself - Who can win the most from Steem Contests...
8. And More Contests...
Contests closing soon include...
Weekly Contest, "Creating Stories Week 9". /Concurso Semanal, "Creando Historias Semana 9
WEEKLY CONTEST - POWER UP GAME - The World of Xpilar - Week 2 - Reward Pool 50 STEEM
Make sure you clearly state the closing date of your contest in the announcement post if you would like your contest to be included in this 'Closing Soon' section.
Compilations of many current contests on Steem have been posted by Best of India Community leader @rishabh99946...
And by @masumrbd of the Bangladesh Community...
And also some more from the Italy Community...
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]
| STEEM price | US$ 0.490 | 15 Mar '21 03.52am UTC |
| STEEM price | 0.00000812 BTC | 15 Mar '21 03.52am UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #180 | 15 Mar '21 03.52am UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 7.35 | 15 Mar '21 03.52am UTC |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) | #24,614 | 15 Mar '21 03.52am UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 177,477 / day | 15 Mar '21 03.52am UTC |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 372,702 / day | 15 Mar '21 03.52am UTC |
This is #310 (14 Mar '21) of this daily news service.
For more news about Steem check out @dmitrik's weekly Steemit News...
[ graphics & images by @pennsif ]

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catching up ... steem was at 0.8 when i checked yesterday - im starting to feel worried lol , imagine this thing going back to $7 where it all went wrong on sleeping witness mining