The Steem News @ 26 February 2024 : Community Curators for March...

Applications for the March Community Curators are closing in a few hours.

The Season 16 Week 1 Challenges have now been published.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about the Steem DAO, SteemPro, SteemWatcher Portal, Steemchat, Steem Store, Steem For Lifestyle, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Community Curators for March

Steemit is inviting applications from anyone who would like to become a Community Curator for March.

To apply to become a Community Curator you must have a reputation of at least 70 and you must have at least 13,500 SP of your own.

The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Monday 26 February 2024...

• Steemit Update [ February 20th, 2024 ] : Community Curators for March - Applications Open

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2. Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 16 - Week 1

The Week 1 Challenges for Season 16 of the Engagement Challenge have now been posted...

• Steemit Update [ February 26th, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 16 - Week 1

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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. DAO Watch : New Return Proposal

Now that the Steem DAO is active and funding the proposal from @the-gorilla it is important that the Return Proposal operates effectively.

This is in place to provide a threshold that must be crossed for proposals to receive funding.

The existing Return Proposal was set up when the Steem DAO started by @gtg who is no longer active on Steem but now very active on Hive.

To avoid any risk of that Return Proposal being removed or manipulated against the interests of Steem, a New Return Proposal has been set up by @steemchiller and other top witnesses.

Please vote for this New Return Proposal to help protect the Steem DAO funds...

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4. DAO Watch : The-Gorilla

@the-gorilla has got off to a strong start on his DAO funded protect to modernise steemit.com.

He has posted a number of updates inviting comment and feedback...

• Condenser : Navigation Update

• Condenser : Introduction of Navigation into Feeds Screen

• Condenser : Documenting Steemit.com File Structure

• Condenser : Documenting Steemit.com Sitemap

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5. Development Roundup

Developer @faisalamin has added a Unique Visitors Count to SteemPro...

• Unique Visitors Count a demanded feature in SteemPro

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An Automated Comment Broadcasting System has been implemented by @bountyking5 on the SteemWatcher Portal...

• Automated Comment Broadcasting Updates - SteemWatcher Portal

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The @stmpak.wit team have now integrated Steemchat with steemkeychain and steemlogin...

• Steemchat integrated with steemkeychain + steemlogin

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6. Steem Store

Indonesian Steemian @fantvwiki has set up Steem Store - a new community for people who have goods or services for sale on Steem...

• Steem Store Introduction

• Guide to Creating Posts in the Steem Store Community

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The first item for sale is a Dell laptop...

• Sell used Laptop, Dell DELL E7250, Core i5-5300U

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This community will be particularly useful if payments can be made in STEEM or SBDs...

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7. Steem For Lifestyle

Steem Rep @solaymann from Bangladesh has founded a new community, Steem For Lifestyle, for people to share their lifestyle activities...

• Introduction post : Steem For Lifestyle Community

Moderators for this new community are @aviral123 (India), @max-pro (Bangladesh), @robin42 (Bangladesh) and @yancar (Venezuela).

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8. Contests on Steem

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

There are 86 contests in the latest list with over 600 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts : Active Contest List on 26th Feb 2024

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.25	26 Feb '24 8.25pm
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#380	26 Feb '24 8.25pm
SBD price	US$ 4.17	26 Feb '24 8.25pm
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	134,897 / day	26 Feb '24 8.25pm
Page views (steemit.com)	228,943 / day	26 Feb '24 8.25pm

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This is #510 (26 Feb '24) of this news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]