The Steem News @ 28 December 2024 : Steemit Awards 2024

Steemit Inc is inviting nominations for this year's Steemit Awards.

Applications are also being invited from teams for the Community Curators for January.

Today's Steem News also includes news about Steem Atlas, Hari Raid, SteemX, EverSteem, @the-gorilla's steemit modernisation, a dinner with Justin Sun, and Contests...

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1. Steemit Awards 2024

Steemit Inc is inviting nominations for this year's Steemit Awards.

There are four new categories for the Awards this year - Best Teacher, Best Learner, Best Contest Maker, and Best All Rounder.

The closing date for nominations is 11:59 pm UTC, on Tuesday 31 December 2024...

• Steemit Update [December 22nd 2024] : The Steemit Awards 2024

The nominations so far can be seen at...

• https://steemit.com/created/steemitawards2024

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2. Community Curators for January

Steemit Inc is inviting applications for Community Curators for January.

Applications are invited from teams of three people.

For January there is a minimum SP requirement of 4000 SP for each team member.

The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Monday 30 December 2024...

• Steemit Update [December 26th, 2024] : Community Curators for January - Applications Open

There are applications from 10 teams so far...

• https://steemit.com/created/curatorapplication

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

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3. Steem Atlas

The @pennsif.witness team have recently launched Steem Atlas - The Illuminated Atlas of the Steem-Powered World.

Steem Atlas takes its inspiration from the old Steemit Worldmap, originally by @martibis, that ran successfully on Steem for several years before the 'big split'.

Steem Atlas is currently being trialled in a beta form, and is available for use at...

• https://steematlas.com/

The aim of Steem Atlas is to develop an outward looking showcase of the many thousands of great posts on Steem about places around the world, be they tourist attractions, restaurants, places of worship, parks, mountain ranges...

• [NEW PROJECT] The Illuminated Atlas of the Steem-Powered World

A new version with new features will be launched in the new year.

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4. Hari Raid

The @h4lab team have launched 'Hari Raid' - a new Tap2Earn game on the Steem blockchain.

The game is currently in Open Beta...

• [H4LAB] STEEM Blockchain-Based Tap2Earn Game "HARI RAID" Open Beta Launched!

• [24.12.02] HARI-RAID Introduction

• HARI RAID, The 1st STEEM blockchain-based game, was released yesterday

@philhughes posted a review of the game...

• Quick Look at H4LAB's STEEM Blockchain-Based Tap2Earn Game "HARI RAID"

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5. SteemX

@bountyking5 is developing SteemX - a new interface for using the Steem blockchain.

A modern, sleek and User friendly UI designed to revolutionize the way we interact with Steemit...

• SteemX Development Update -- A Modern UI of Steemit

• SteemX Development Update -- A Modern UI of Steemit -- Toolbar & Image Uploading

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6. EverSteem

@etainclub is developing EverSteem - a mechanism that will allow posts on Steem to continue receiving rewards beyond the standard 7 day reward window.

• [EverSteem] Write Once, Reward Forever

• [EverSteem] Write Once, Reward Forever - Main Logic implemented

EverSteem is the same concept as SteemForever that was developed by @knircky six years ago...

• We are launching a new service called Steem-Forever

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7. DAO Watch : The-Gorilla

@the-gorilla continues to post updates on his DAO funded protect to modernise steemit.com.

He has recently been looking at hiding resteems...

• Proposal-86 : Change Log - Hide Resteems

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8. Dinner with Justin Sun

Korean Steemian @happycapital recently won 1st place in a promotional contest organised by Tron and the Upbit exchange...

• I created a commemorative NFT edition for first place - Tron x Upbit

The prize was a dinner with Tron founder Justin Sun...

• https://x.com/Happycapital3/status/1872587149729775758

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9. Contest Corner

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

There are 106 contests in the latest list with over 500 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 28th December 2024

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Inspired by @steemcurator01's FlashQuiz series during the summer, @the-gorilla is launching a year long Steemit Quiz for 2025.

People can enter individually or in teams of up to 5 people. The prize pool is estimated to be around $1500 over the year...

• Steemit Quiz 2025

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.28	28 Dec '24 5.11pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#394	28 Dec '24 5.11pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 3.37	28 Dec '24 5.11pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	136,625 / day	28 Dec '24 5.11pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	217,577 / day	28 Dec '24 5.11pm UTC

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This is #549 (28 Dec '24) of this news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]