SoS Daily News : news about the State of Steem @ 31 January 2019

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State of Steem Forum #6 on communities, content creation, curation and retention took place on Thursday.

The forum was proceeded by an hour plus discussion with Ned Scott, Elizabeth Powell and Michael Vandeberg from Steemit Inc and Dan from @blocktrades.



State of Steem Forum #6 - Thursday 31 January

State of Steem Forum #6 covering communities, content creation, curation and retention took place on MSP Waves on Thursday.

The forum included input from @shredz7 about his new Stratos DApp with the Communities feature built in.

Other contributors to the forum included @carrieallen (Helpie), @clixmoney (@dcooperation), @enginewitty (The Alliance), @hauptmann (@dtube.forum), @jonyoudyer (Canna-Curate), @shadowspub (Rambling Radio), @starkerz (@oracle-d) and @taskmaster4450.

@traveller7761 also gave an update on the project to develop a joint marketing and PR strategy of the Steem ecosystem...


Before the forum, there was an hour long discussion with Steemit Inc Executive Chair Ned Scott, Managing Director Elizabeth Powell and lead blockchain developer Michael Vandeberg @vandeberg, along with Dan from @blocktrades.

Ned and Michael gave a full update on the RocksDB developments to reduce witness node memory requirements. This is now entering its final testing phase.

Dan from @blocktrades then joined Ned in an extensive discussion about the proposal for the Worker Proposal System for Steem. They are currently refining the proposal and looking for comment and input from the community.

Elizabeth gave an update on progress on advertising and other current activities in Steemit Inc. Ned finished with a brief commentary on the future powerdown plans.

The recordings for both the forum and the discussion with Ned, Elizabeth, Michael and Dan will be posted very shortly.



One to watch...

@swapsteem is to be a 'Decentralized p2p Exchange for the Steem Blockchain'.

The @swapsteem team have just launched a Fundition campaign to help fund development of the project...



KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & @arcange ]


(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)

Steem price US$ 0.274 2019-02-01 4.16pm UTC
SBD price US$ 0.847 2019-02-01 4.16pm UTC
Market Cap US$ 85,839,597 2019-02-01 4.16pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking #51 (-2) 2019-02-01 4.16pm UTC
No. of Whales 37 (n/c) 2019-01-30
No. of Orcas 323 (n/c) 2019-01-30
No. of Dolphins 1976 (+2) 2019-01-30
No. of Minnows 9119 (+2) 2019-01-30
Alexa rank (steemit.com) #4291 (-10) 2019-02-01 4.16pm UTC

Follow @penguinpablo & @steem-data for more statistics.


NEWS FROM STEEMIT INC

@elipowell - Post #2: Thank You

@steemitblog - Splitting Condenser: Social + Wallet

@steemitblog - Steemit’s New Direction


NEWS FROM THE STEEM ALLIANCE

@steemalliance - New Working Group Announcement | Official Election Results

@steemalliance / @llfarms - The “Steem Alliance” Foundation Group | What it is, What it’s not, and my own personal take on it

@steemalliance / @lemouth-dev - Stake-based versus vote-based elections - an analysis toolkit

@steemalliance - Full Voter List | Full Transparency And A Call For The Community's Review

@steemalliance / @rivalzzz - Record of Steem Alliance Voting - WorkingGroup Nominations


NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES

#1 @aggroed - Sunday - Steem Alliance discord meetup followed by tournaments with 1000 steem prize pool

#14 @therealwolf - Witness Essentials: Pricefeed v1.0.2

#39 @arcange - SteemSQL - Subscription fee change

#42 @ocd-witness / @acidyo - OCDB Delegation

#49 @firepower - Blockchain Use Cases For Indian Smart Cities

#55 @holger80 - update for beem - get_blog, get_followers and get_following works for api.steemit.com

#62 @dragosroua - Now You Can Buy Crypto With Credit Card On Binance

#66 @steemgigs / @surpassinggoogle - SteemGigs.org Quick Update - We Will Be Adding Micro-Tasks

#70 @steemcommunity / @abh12345 - A Case for Stake-weighted Voting?

To keep up to date with more posts from witnesses follow @witnesspage ...


NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS

@gadrian - January in Retrospect for Steem

@impactn - Development of a joint marketing and PR strategy of the Steem ecosystem - first results

@jongolson - Reason #328 For Online Entrepreneurs To Accept Crypto!

@lucylin - A quick scan around steemit...

@penguinpablo - Weekly report: How much STEEM is stored on the exchanges? - January 31, 2019

@runicar - [SOLVED] The Fuck Is Happening With Our Post Payouts? Posts Losing up to 25% Value At The Time Of Payout!

@steevc - Support your witnesses or we could lose them

@tarazkp - All the transactions, zero censorship

@taskmaster4450 - It Is Time To Drop The Mindset Of Competition

@taskmaster4450 - Communities MVP Is Here!


NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES

@canna-curate - Canna-Curate Is Evolving

Steem Merchants / @rutablockchain - Steem Merchants. Mukti Spa

@welcomewagon - Who else likes win/win/win/win situations?


NEWS FROM EVENTS & MEETUPS

24 FEBRUARY 2019 - MALAYSIA, PENANG
@bitrocker2020 - Steem Sharing Bootcamp / The Settlements Co-Working Space in Penang

30 MARCH 2019 - USA, MINNEAPOLIS
@ddrfr33k - Let's plan another Minneapolis Meetup!

6 APRIL 2019 - UK, LEICESTER
@steemcampuk / @lloyddavis - SteemCampUK 2 is coming to Leicester
@steemcampuk / @shanibeer - SteemCampUK 2 - Growing an Audience of Smart Investors

17 - 19 MAY 2019 - SPAIN, BARCELONA
@dtube.forum - COME TO THE DTube FORUM AND MEET @surfermarly and @heimindanger

20 - 23 JUNE 2019 - USA, COLORADO
@thealliance - The 'BLOCK' Party!

1 - 5 DECEMBER 2019 - LIMA, PERU
@steemfiesta - SteemFIESTA 2019 - The First Five Days of DECEMBER - Summer in the South!

You can also view a full list of Steem Meetups & Events Calendar here...


NEWS FROM GAMES

HashKings / @qwoyn - Land Grab


NEWS FROM DAPPS, APPS & DEVS

Beem / @holger80 - update for beem - get_blog, get_followers and get_following works for api.steemit.com

@dpoll / @emrebeyler - Auditing dPolls

SteemConnect / IPFS / @valium - Quick implementation of ipfs and steemconnect to your django application

@steemgigs / @surpassinggoogle - SteemGigs.org Quick Update - We Will Be Adding Micro-Tasks

@steempeak - UPDATES: Optional Pop-Out Panel + Remembing feed position

SteemSQL / @arcange - SteemSQL - Subscription fee change

@swapsteem - SwapSteem - Decentralized p2p Exchange for Steem Blockchain


If you want to check on progress of development on Steem, check out the GitHub here...

If you want to check on the current list of full API Nodes witness @holger80 provides this via @fullnodeupdate...


MEDIA COVERAGE OF STEEM & STEEMIT INC

Crypto Briefing - DApps Took In More Money Than App Store In First Year

CryptoNewsZ - ‘9/11 Papers Hacker Group’ has raised $42K in Bitcoin as Ransom since the Infamous Twitter Announcement This New Year’s Eve


EXTERNAL STEEM DATA


This is #60 (31 Jan '19) of this daily news service.

Please let me know of any important posts or key data that should be included. Comment below or message me on Discord Pennsif#9921


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Thanks for these posts, @pennsif, and for your involvement/hosting of the the different forums going on. There really isn't a reason for anyone not to know what's going on for lack of knowing where to find it (once they've found you, of course), as long as it is recorded on chain, obviously.

I went and looked at the peer to peer exchange you mention. Apparently, it's okay for individuals to make such exchanges, whereas it's more difficult for a regular exchange? Seems like the same regulations restricting it or causing difficulties (at least in terms of the US dollar) would apply. I guess I need to look into how that works. Not complaining at all if it does, though. One more potential way to go from fiat straight to STEEM is good news indeed. :)

I guess since they’re’s no central owner it isn’t really an exchange... It’s the wild wild west here and no-one knows really what’s regulated and how.

I see, @shredz7. It would be like me buying something at a garage sale, or making a purchase from a friend. No one is a business, per se, so not necessarily regulated or taxed.

Done right, I can see such a peer to peer exchange being game changing. At this point, any fiat to STEEM mechanism is going to be game changing, as long as it's secure, cheap, and available to the masses.

I looked into it more and it isn’t really that either... SwapSteem doesn’t actually exchange the USD for STEEM/SBD, nor does the p2p network. It just acts as a facilitator for OTC (over the counter) exchanging. It just links two people together who then facilitate the transaction. It then uses escrow to make sure the transaction works out, but doesn’t actually handle transferring the money.

Ah, @pennsif trying to give excellent advise to some. Will they listen?

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Yup. All I got to say. This is the place for the real skinny.

The first forum that I missed but I am looking forward to hearing the recording as they have become an important part of my routine these days! Thanks for all the effort!

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