The Steem Alliance are holding another Town Hall Q & A on Sunday.
Steem Monsters have launched their automated tournament system.
DrugWars announce battles are coming.
The 10,000 Minnows Project is launched.
Parachute's tipbot ParJar adds STEEM.
The Homesteaders Co-op launch new promo video.
Steem Alliance Town Hall Q & A, Sunday 8pm UTC
The Steem Alliance are holding another weekly Town Hall Q & A session at 8pm UTC / 3pm EST on Sunday in their Discord server.
Steem Monsters launch automated tournament system with 10,000 STEEM prize pool
Steem Monsters have launched their live automated tournament system.
There is a prize pool of 10,000 STEEM for the tournaments over the first two weeks.
DrugWars announce return of the Battles
The DrugWars development team have announced that Battles are returning in a week.
A new game client will also be released shortly. This new mobile friendly app version will be available on the Apple store and Google Playstore after version 0.3.0.
The daily prize pool has now reached over 8500 STEEM.
The 10,000 Minnows Project
The number of minnows (500SP+) on Steem is just under 9200. It is growing but very slowly.
Long time steemian 
Hive account@steevc has launched a campaign to push that number up to 10,000 over the next few months.
To help develop the campaign there will be a special 60 minute brainstorming session at 8pm UTC on MSP Waves on Thursday.
If you would like to take part in the brainstorming session contact Hive account@steevc or 
Hive account@pennsif.
Parachute's tipbot ParJar adds STEEM
OCD-witness partner 
Hive account@acidyo has demonstrated the power of Twitter and the power of just asking by getting Parachute's tipbot ParJar to add STEEM as one of its accepted cryptocurrencies...
The Homesteaders Co-op launch new promo video
Fast growing steem ecommerce platform, the Homesteaders Co-op, has launched a new promotional video produced by 
Hive account@riverflows...
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Hive account@penguinpablo & 
Hive account@steem-data for more statistics.
NEWS FROM STEEMIT INC
Hive account@steemitblog - Steemit Engineering Update: Condenser Split & Mira
Hive account@steemitblog - Steem Basics: Understanding Private Keys - Part 1
Hive account@steemitblog - STEEM/USD Now on Lykke Exchange!
NEWS FROM THE STEEM ALLIANCE
Hive account@steemalliance - Steem Alliance Town Hall Q & A | Sunday, February 24th 8pm UTC
Hive account@steemalliance - Townhall Recording From Feb 17, 2019 & Request for Input
Hive account@steemalliance - Steem Alliance Weekly Update
Hive account@steemalliance / 
Hive account@soyrosa - First 5 days of @steemalliance translations: the results! | We could still use more translators :-)
Hive account@steemalliance / 
Hive account@steemalliance-es - Actualización Semanal de Steem Alliance (traducción)
Hive account@steemalliance - OFFICIAL CALL FOR STRUCTURE PROPOSALS | STAGE ONE
THE STEEM ALLIANCE : FOUNDATION STRUCTURE PROPOSALS
Hive account@alexvan - Steem Foundation Proposal
Hive account@bluefinstudios - Foundation Proposal - GROW THE CHAIN
Hive account@jackmiller - STEEM UNITED - Red Tape Nightmares Solved. (Video) by @jackmiller (witness)
Hive account@upheaver - Steem Alliance: Foundation Proposal by Witness @upheaver
Hive account@steemalliance-es - Steem Alliance: Propuesta de Fundación por Witness @upheaver // (TRADUCCIÓN)
Hive account@impactn - DeCentra Steem - a proposal to develop a self-governed structure for foundation and Steem ecosystem
NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES
#11 
Hive account@timcliff - TimCliff Witness Update 2019-02-23
#30 
Hive account@ocd-witness / Hive account@acidyo - Being direct
#30 Hive account@ocd-witness / Hive account@acidyo - “Give me a lever long enough, and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.”
#52 
Hive account@partiko - First Steem Meetup in 2019 - Resteem and Win Gifts!
#57 
Hive account@holger80 - Witness update: new server with 512 GB SSD and compile steem 0.20.9 unter ubuntu 18.04
#71 
Hive account@ura-soul - Want To Create an Uncensored Community Group? Ureka.org is Getting Ready for Steem Integration!
#97 
Hive account@oracle-d / 
Hive account@steem.ninja - A CDN for Steem.Ninja - [Development Update]
#226 
Hive account@steemitportugal - Steemit Portugal WITNESS
To keep up to date with more posts from witnesses follow 
Hive account@witnesspage ...
NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS
Hive account@chekohler - Collaborating With Steemians - Here's looking at you kid
Hive account@gadrian - Final Wrap Up of the State of Steem Forum Series
Hive account@juanmolina - Steem's Value vs Newbies's Resources Credits (RC)
Hive account@midlet - Rethinking Steem - Part 2 of Yesterdays Post
Hive account@mindtrap - Another brick in the wall...or maybe not?
Hive account@sgt-dan - Guess Who Is Advertising On STEEMIT
Hive account@steevc - The 10k Minnows project
Hive account@taskmaster4450 - What Is Really Being Built: An Economy
Hive account@tibfox - How to SELL your stuff ON STEEM & connect people ?!
NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
Hive account@dsound - DSound Community Update: LAST MINUTE call for delegators - DSound Lovers and Early Birds programs closing tonight!
Hive account@homesteaderscoop - 5 Reasons to Vote for Homesteaders Co-op in 20k delegation dPoll
Hive account@homesteaderscoop / Hive account@riverflows - Homesteaders Co-OP - Check Out the New Video! - They're Worth Voting For!
Hive account@homesteaderscoop / 
Hive account@sagescrub - Get Published For Free Contest! @Porters will help you craft your Homesteading, Natural Medicine or Sustainability eBook
NEWS FROM EVENTS & MEETUPS
Visit the Steem Meetups & Events Calendar for a full list of meetups coming up...
NEWS FROM DAPPS, APPS & DEVS
Hive account@steemdapps - Daily SteemApps.com Report - Friday, 22nd February 2019
DTube / 
Hive account@techcoderx - Need help with upload API auth system. Any ideas?
NEWS FROM GAMES
Hive account@drugwars - Drugwars - If you want the peace, prepare for the war
DrugWars / 
Hive account@dwclowns - DWClowns Are Getting Powerful!
DrugWars / 
Hive account@kevinli - DRUG WARS (Days 3-6) - Build Now, DESTROY Later
Minecolonies / 
Hive account@raycoms - Minecolonies & Tons of Fixes
Hive account@moonsteem - What would you do when your STEEM mooned 1000x today ? Sneak Peak NEW dapp - moonSTEEM.com
Hive account@moonsteem - moonSTEEM - Provably Fair crash game powered by the Steem Blockchain | Seeding Event
Hive account@steemmonsters - 2 Weeks of Tournaments, 10,000 Steem, and the Start of Something Huge!
Hive account@steemmonsters - First Automated Tournament on Steemmonsters.com 300 Steem prize!
Steem Monsters / 
Hive account@chrisroberts - Automated Tournaments are Coming!
SteemSlotGames / 
Hive account@matkodurko - Get up to 16 STEEM for sign-up to new gambling game on STEEM Blockchain! 5 minutes of work!
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
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EXTERNAL STEEM DATA
This is #83 (23 Feb '19) of this daily news service.
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