The Steem News @ 25 March 2024 : Engagement Challenge Season 17...

Applications are open for Season 17 of the Engagement Challenge.

The Season 16 Week 5 Challenges have now been published.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about SteemPro Blogs, Ingan.Elements, a Telegram SteemBot, Meetup Bolivar 2024, Steem Electricals, AI Steem Programming, 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 5

The Week 5 Challenges for Season 16 of the Engagement Challenge have now been posted...

• Steemit Update [ March 25th, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 16 - Week 5

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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. SteemPro Blogs

Developer @faisalamin has continued making updates and refinements for the newly released SteemPro Blogs desktop app for Steem, particularly around mentions and notifications...

• New Changes | SteemPro Blogs

• SteemPro Editor easy Mention | SteemPro Blogs

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@faisalamin also continues to post daily usage stats for SteemPro Blogs...

• Daily Analysis for SteemPro Blogs 24-Mar-2024

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4. Developer Updates

Witness developer @etainclub continues work on his new account exchange dApp Ingan.Elements...

• [ingan.elements] updates - retrieving password and private keys

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@hardphotographer has made further progress with his Telegram SteemBot...

• Update V Beta version 2.01 | Steemit application in Telegram | Fast! Comfortable!

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5. Meetup Bolivar 2024

Current Steem Rep @karianaporras and former Steem Rep @nahela are working together to organise Meetup Bolivar 2024 for Steemians in Venezuela.

The event takes place on 15 June in in Ciudad Bolívar...

• Se viene algo bueno... Meet Up Bolívar 2024

• ¡ Te invito a nuestro MEETUP BOLIVAR 2024 !

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6. Steem Electricals PV Success

@ubongudofot and his @steemelectricals project have recently completed the installation of a PV system for another school in Uyo in Nigeria...

• Steemelectricals solar project commissioned [19th March, 2024]

• Steem made lives memorable yesterday!

@ubongudofot is now looking for another local school for his next community solar project powered by Steem.

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7. AI Steem Programming

Long time Steemian @remlaps has been experimenting with using AI to write programs for Steem.

He used ChatGPT to write SteemFollowerStats.py...

a program that parses the output from the Steem condenser_api/get_followers call for a particular author and returns the follower count and the median reputation of the author's followers

• Steem for Script Kiddies: SteemFollowerStats.py - A program by ChatGPT

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8. Contests on Steem

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

There are 95 contests in the latest list with over 700 STEEM in prizes...

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

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.35	25 Mar '24 11.11pm
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#364	25 Mar '24 11.11pm
SBD price	US$ 4.75	25 Mar '24 11.11pm
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	139,713 / day	25 Mar '24 11.11pm
Page views (steemit.com)	217,738 / day	25 Mar '24 11.11pm

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This is #516 (25 Mar '24) of this news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]