The State of Steem Forums are still rolling along.
Three down, five to go.
Next Thursday's forum is all about Steem Economics - steem inflation, attracting investors, revenue streams, advertising...
If you would like to come along and speak on that one, contact me.
In the meantime the recording of Forum #3 about DApps, Apps and Developments is now available in case you missed it...
Exchanges, exchanges - we need more exchanges
If STEEM and SBD are listed on more exchanges they will get more visibility, and hopefully more demand and a better price.
That is the theory, and that sounds good to me.
Hive account@socky put out post calling on steemians to give their witness votes to witnesses that are willing to work to get STEEM on more exchanges...
Hive account@lordbutterfly, although not a witness, has picked up the baton and is leading the charge to get STEEM on the Bitfinex exchange...
Tech Highlights
Steem DApps and Apps are still on the up and up.
Hive account@therealwolf reports that there are now 50 Apps on this steemapps.com site. Next target 100...
Following his 80 STEEM constest 
Hive account@shredz7 has now got a new name for his Engine system.
The winning name of Stratos came from 
Hive account@cryptocurator...
To cope with continually growing demand the steem powered blogging platform Engrave has deployed a new much faster engine...
Project Highlights
The eagerly awaited new onboarding project from 
Hive account@anomadsoul and 
Hive account@coruscate, 
Hive account@steemonboarding, is edging ever closer to launch day.
The team has released a 'Behind The Scenes Sneak Peak Video'.
It is hoped the new service will be released in time for the State of Steem Forum #5 on 24 January which will be all about Marketing, Onboarding and PR.
And on the subject of 'sneak peaks' 
Hive account@dreemsteem's new children's project Spunkee Monkee is also offering one...
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price |
US$ 0.259 |
2019-01-12 12:25 UTC |
| SBD price |
US$ 0.715 |
2019-01-12 12:25 UTC |
| Market Cap |
US$ 80,076,405 |
2019-01-12 12:25 UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking |
#51 (n/c) |
2019-01-12 12:25 UTC |
| No. of Whales |
36 (n/c) |
2019-01-10 |
| No. of Orcas |
313 (-1) |
2019-01-10 |
| No. of Dolphins |
1966 (+4) |
2019-01-10 |
| No. of Minnows |
9092 (+8) |
2019-01-10 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) |
#4110 (+6) |
2019-01-11 22:03 UTC |
Follow 
Hive account@penguinpablo for more statistics.
NEWS FROM STEEMIT INC
Hive account@steemitblog - Testing Ads on Steemit.com
Hive account@steemitdev - New Year, New DevPortal Updates
Hive account@steemitdev - Additional Public API Change
NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES
#22 Hive account@therealwolf - Celebrating 50 Apps on SteemApps.com
#35 
Hive account@stoodkev - Results of the Multisig bounty - Giving back to the community
#37 
Hive account@blockbrothers / 
Hive account@exyle - Powerdown Statistics #1 - 29th December 2018 - January 11th 2019
#61 
Hive account@emrebeyler - Using Lightsteem to query Hivemind
To keep up to date with more posts from witnesses follow 
Hive account@witnesspage ...
NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS
Hive account@denmarkguy - Steemit does NOT have the most Steem on Steemit! Wait... WHAT?
Hive account@kingscrown - Hows STEEM Doing?
Hive account@jongolson - Building Your SteemPower Without Writing Pulitzer Prize Articles
Hive account@lordbutterfly - I need $3000. Who wants to help?
Hive account@organduo - Teaching on Steem
Hive account@organduo - Help bring Steem to Wirex plastic Visa cards
Hive account@runicar - The Dark Overlord censored from Twitter, Reddit, Pastebin and Steemit but they are still on the STEEM Blockchain!
Hive account@socky - STEEM Needs More Exchanges. You Can Help
Hive account@socky - Employer investment contribution concept in Steem Power
Hive account@socky - Liquid STEEM Report Jan 11, 2019
Hive account@steemmatt - A Lot Of People Want To Be Heroes On Steemit... A Simple Thought Worth The Consideration
Hive account@steevc - Follow Friday: Ups and downs
Hive account@surfermarly - New Year - New Venture! Starting Out My Steem Vlog For Young Entrepreneurs
Hive account@tarazkp - Censorship and suppression of free speech on Steem. Really?
Hive account@taskmaster4450 - Steem Is Starting To Be Recognized
Hive account@whatsup - Onboarding and Marketing Should Be Migrated to the Apps
NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
Hive account@homesteaderscoop - Calling Aussie Homesteaders!
Hive account@impactn - Building a community of Global Goals project co-creators
Hive account@naturalmedicine - A Shout Out for Support: Can You Support Natural Medicine Through Delegating a Little Steem Power? (NM DELEGATION REPORT #1)
NEWS FROM EVENTS & MEETUPS
JANUARY 2019
Hive account@soyrosa - [Service Announcement] Dutchies & Co Meet-Up coming Sunday Changed Venue!
Hive account@redrica - First London Steem Meetup of 2019 | Friday 18th Jan 12pm onwards | High Street Kensington
MAY 2019
Hive account@dtube.forum - State of the Project - @dtube.forum
DECEMBER 2019
Hive account@steemfiesta - SteemFIESTA 2019 - The First Five Days of DECEMBER - Summer in the South!
NEWS FROM DAPPS, APPS & DEVS
Engine / Hive account@shredz7 - Contest Winners -- 80 STEEM in Prizes!
Hive account@emrebeyler - Using Lightsteem to query Hivemind
Hive account@engrave - New Engrave engine deployed. It’s faster and better than ever!
Hive account@esteemapp / 
Hive account@good-karma - eSteem Mobile 2.0.6 update brings Leaderboard, Drafts
Spunkee Monkee / Hive account@dreemsteem - Want a sneak peek??
Hive account@steemgigs / 
Hive account@surpassinggoogle - Task Request. We Modified Our Task Request To Add Core Features & 'Communities' To Ulogs.org, Simplifying The 1.5 Task Drastically. + (500 Steem Is Completed In 7 days/550 Steem For 5 Days)
Hive account@steemonboarding - Behind The Scenes Sneak Peak Video for Steem Onboarding!
If you want to check on progress of development on Steem, check out the GitHub here...
- https://github.com/steemit/steem/branches
If you want to check on the current list of full API Nodes witness 
Hive account@holger80 provides this via 
Hive account@fullnodeupdate...
- https://steemit.com/full-nodes/@fullnodeupdate/full-api-node-update---1012019
MEDIA COVERAGE OF STEEM & STEEMIT INC
Captainaltcoin.com - How about that for decentralization: Steemit censoring content on their platform
Heavy - The Dark Overlord Update: Hacker Group Banned on Steemit, Reddit & Twitter
This is #40 (11 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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