The new Steem-Engine token system continues to progress.
Witness 
Hive account@jackmiller raises the issue about time limits on witness votes.
DPoll introduces stake-weighted voting.
Two Steem meetups are on the calendar in the UK.
Steem-Engine.com - the Vision and Legalities
The new token creation system Steem-Engine, created by 
Hive account@harpagon, 
Hive account@yabapmatt and 
Hive account@aggroed, continues to attract attention and token creators. A DEX for trading the tokens should be available some time this month.
Hive account@aggroed has laid out the vision for Steem-Engine.com, and also highlighted some of the legal issues that will need to be considered by those creating tokens...
Should Witness Votes be time limited?
Top 50 witness Hive account@jackmiller raises the issue of whether witness votes should have a time limit - perhaps 180 days or 365 days - particularly to account for the fact that people die.
dPoll adds Stake based voting option
DPoll developer 
Hive account@emrebeyler has now added a much requested feature to view DPoll voting results ranked by stake weighting (ie Steempower)...
As an example it is interesting to see how the results of the poll by 
Hive account@theycallmedan would have changed with stake weighted voting...
versus non-stake weighted voting...
Two UK meetups coming up
The UK has now got not one, but two Steem Meetups coming up.
First in the diary is another of the regular London meetups organised by 
Hive account@redrica.
The meetup will be at the same venue as last time - the Canteen at Whole Foods Market in Kensington - on Wednesday 27 February.
If you are in or around London at the end of the month do make an effort to get along and join 
Hive account@adetorrent, 
Hive account@ultravioletmag, 
Hive account@teodora, 
Hive account@steevc, 
Hive account@dougalporteous, 
Hive account@susanlo, 
Hive account@ezzy, 
Hive account@rea, Hive account@redrica and others at the meetup.
Then in April 
Hive account@lloyddavis and 
Hive account@shanibeer are putting on the second @SteemCampUK event in Leicester in the East Midlands.
The event takes place on Saturday 6 April at the Phoenix in Leicester city centre. Tickets are £10 or 15 SBD.
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
Follow 
Hive account@penguinpablo & 
Hive account@steem-data for more statistics.
NEWS FROM STEEMIT INC
Hive account@steemitblog - Steemit Engineering Update: Cost Reductions, RocksDB/MIRA, Condenser Split
Hive account@andrarchy - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Steem?
Hive account@elipowell - Post #2: Thank You
NEWS FROM THE STEEM ALLIANCE
Hive account@steemalliance - Steem Alliance Town Hall Q & A | This Sunday, February 10th at 8pm UTC
Hive account@steemalliance - Steem Alliance Weekly Update
Hive account@steemalliance - Newly Established Community Guidelines For The Steem Alliance Discord Server
Hive account@steemalliance / 
Hive account@alexvan - Steemalliance WG First Proposal - Integrate different languages
Hive account@steemalliance - New Working Group Announcement | Official Election Results
NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES
#6 
Hive account@lukestokes.mhth / 
Hive account@lukestokes - Why "I like blockchains, but not cryptocurrency" is ignorant
#11 Hive account@aggroed - Stars Align- Core of the foundation design that will later get submitted to the Steem Alliance RFP
#11 Hive account@aggroed - Vision for Steem-Engine.com and some legal challenges along the way for tokens
#12 
Hive account@therealwolf - Thoughts on the Worker Proposal System for Steem
#21 
Hive account@thecryptodrive - Campaigning again! But I would rather be building
#31 Hive account@emrebeyler - dPoll development update: Stake based result view
#37 
Hive account@blockbrothers / 
Hive account@exyle - @blockbrothers Steemify app is getting better with a small new feature!
#42 Hive account@jackmiller - Broken Witness Voting System!
#50 
Hive account@fyrst-witness - Witness pens getting sold!
#68 
Hive account@justyy - @justyy's Weekly Witness Report - 10/Feb/2019
#101 
Hive account@fbslo - Witness Update - 8 February 2018 - 1 Year as Witness
#116 
Hive account@pjau - Witness "pjau" Update Week 40
To keep up to date with more posts from witnesses follow 
Hive account@witnesspage ...
NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS
Hive account@lordbutterfly - Steem Proposal System// Potentially cutting author rewards across the board
Hive account@nathanmars - Hustle beats Talent! Calling all the Steem witnesses, DApps founders, community leaders to join Twitter marketing for our Blockchain #STEEM
Hive account@runicar - Are you ready for a 20% decrease in Author Rewards?
Hive account@tarazkp - Your content is not enough
Hive account@taskmaster4450 - Change In Steem Distribution Levels 2/10/19...We Keep Growing
NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
Hive account@impactn - Make a change! Explore. Find out more. Start cocreating
Hive account@impactn-projects - A Project Proposal For A Borehole Water Supply At Kwakyekrom M/A Basic School For Clean Water
Hive account@impactn-projects - Children's dining room as a social inclusion strategy in Venezuela (Bread from Heaven)
Hive account@impactn-projects - FASHION WITH PURPOSE: THE BEST COAT, IT'S LOVE
NEWS FROM EVENTS & MEETUPS
24 FEBRUARY 2019 - MALAYSIA, PENANG
Hive account@bitrocker2020 - Steem Sharing Bootcamp / The Settlements Co-Working Space in Penang
27 FEBRUARY 2019 - UK, LONDON
Hive account@redrica - 2nd London Steem Meetup of 2019 | Wed 27th Feb 3pm onwards | High Street Kensington
30 MARCH 2019 - USA, MINNEAPOLIS
Hive account@ddrfr33k - Let's plan another Minneapolis Meetup!
6 APRIL 2019 - UK, LEICESTER
Hive account@steevc - See you in Leicester in April for Steemcamp?
Hive account@steemcampuk - Get Your Tickets For SteemCampUK 2
Hive account@steemcampuk / Hive account@shanibeer - SteemCampUK 2 - Growing an Audience of Smart Investors
17 - 19 MAY 2019 - SPAIN, BARCELONA
Hive account@dtube.forum - SAVE YOUR SPOT AT THE DTube FORUM 2019 BARCELONA
20 - 23 JUNE 2019 - USA, COLORADO
Hive account@thealliance - The 'BLOCK' Party!
1 - 5 DECEMBER 2019 - LIMA, PERU
Hive account@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 DAPPS, APPS & DEVS
Beempy / 
Hive account@holger80 - systemctl script froze - how to do to prevent this?
Bloks.xyz / 
Hive account@wehmoen - A wallet for SteemEngine Token: Wallet.Bloks.XYZ
Hive account@dpoll / Hive account@emrebeyler - dPoll development update: Stake based result view
Hive account@steem-bet - Writing Contest! - 4 Days Left before SteemBet Launch!
Hive account@steemcasting - thinking fundition accountability as first donations come in for steemcasting!
Steemify / Hive account@exyle - @blockbrothers Steemify app is getting better with a small new feature!
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 Hive account@holger80 provides this via 
Hive account@fullnodeupdate...
MEDIA COVERAGE OF STEEM & STEEMIT INC
No new coverage found.
EXTERNAL STEEM DATA
This is #70 (10 Feb '19) of this daily news service.
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