Not so much news to report today after the big Hivemind release yesterday.
Although the STEEM price does seem to be staging something of an upward breakout from its usual BTC coat-tailing.
Maybe the positive buzz of the Hivemind announcement is having an effect...
The steem platform is rather short of public nodes. Reliance on the Steemit Inc nodes has been a centralisation issue, and has had a heavy cost impact for Steemit Inc.
Yesterday's Hivemind release, and its reduction in memory requirements for nodes, is a key part of solving the node shortage problem.
Right on queue, top 30 witness 
Hive account@themarkymark is the first to release a new full public node.
Hopefully there will be more to follow soon.
If you would you like to know more about the current nodes you can check 
Hive account@holger80's regular Full Node Update posts...
The State of Steem Forum #4 - Steem Economics - Thursday
The State of Steem Forum #4 - Steem Economics - takes place 8pm - 11pm on MSP Waves on Thursday 17 January.
There is already a good roster of speakers for the forum including 
Hive account@crypto.talk (
Hive account@partiko), 
Hive account@disregardfiat (
Hive account@dlux-io), 
Hive account@dragosroua (witness), 
Hive account@fredrikaa (
Hive account@steempress), 
Hive account@hightouch (
Hive account@fundition), 
Hive account@hr1 (
Hive account@steeveapp), 
Hive account@jackmiller (witness), 
Hive account@mcfarhat (
Hive account@actifit), 
Hive account@therealwolf (witness & steemapps.com), 
Hive account@starkerz (
Hive account@oracle-d), 
Hive account@traveller7761 (
Hive account@impactn) and 
Hive account@ura-soul (witness & 
Hive account@steempassport).
Look out for any further updates.
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price |
US$ 0.305 |
2019-01-16 13:04pm UTC |
| SBD price |
US$ 0.841 |
2019-01-16 13:04pm UTC |
| Market Cap |
US$ 94,324,069 |
2019-01-16 13:04pm UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking |
#50 (+1) |
2019-01-16 13:04pm UTC |
| No. of Whales |
36 (n/c) |
2019-01-14 |
| No. of Orcas |
316 (+2) |
2019-01-14 |
| No. of Dolphins |
1971 (+1) |
2019-01-14 |
| No. of Minnows |
9101 (+1) |
2019-01-14 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) |
#4124 (-5) |
2019-01-15 21:22pm UTC |
Follow 
Hive account@penguinpablo for more statistics.
NEWS FROM STEEMIT INC
Hive account@steemitblog - Hivemind is Live!
Hive account@bryan-imhoff - Ned Lives! (Some May Consider That a B Horror Movie Title...)
NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES
#29 Hive account@themarkymark - Announcing New Public Full Node
#37 
Hive account@blockbrothers / 
Hive account@exyle - Vlog 387: Steemit inc. reduces cost of full nodes drastically + Powerdown rumours + My ideas where the blockchain is going
#52 
Hive account@helpie / 
Hive account@meno - Out of play
#61 
Hive account@steemgigs / 
Hive account@surpassinggoogle - Do Understand Better Now What 'Surpassing Google' Means And Why It Involves 'Intensest Suffering Without An Outlet'
#71 Hive account@ura-soul - Censoring Steem Sites - Does It 'Protect' victims, Enable Abusers, Both or Neither? We Need To Be Clear on This For Steem's Sake
#71 Hive account@ura-soul - Abundance! Steem is an Economic Garden That Provides Abundance To Whoever Tills It's Soil
#75 
Hive account@bobinson - A quick update on the witness servers
#134 
Hive account@dsound / 
Hive account@prc - DSound - Is this the end?
To keep up to date with more posts from witnesses follow 
Hive account@witnesspage ...
NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS
Hive account@bigtom13 - Centralized Decentralization
Hive account@daan - One Last Effort to Get Steem/USD on Bittrex - Let's Beat Noah & Verge!
Hive account@gadrian - When Was the Last Time You Checked on the Witnesses You Voted For?
Hive account@mindtrap - Does any of you buy STEEM? Well...I do
Hive account@organduo - Less dependent on whales
Hive account@organduo - What success on Steem means to you?
Hive account@shawnsporter - Venn: The intersection of traditional CMSs & the Steem Blockchain
Hive account@shepz1 - Payouts to increase?
Hive account@tarazkp - @ned Needs A Tim Cook: Cost Of Nodes Plummets
Hive account@taskmaster4450 - Predicting the future of Steem
Hive account@theycallmedan - My Thoughts On Steem & Steem(it)
NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
Hive account@homesteaderscoop - Who is Homesteaders Co-op?
Hive account@spunkeemonkee / 
Hive account@dreemsteem - Buy? Sell? Trade? Spunkee Monkees choose!
NEWS FROM EVENTS & MEETUPS
JANUARY 2019
Hive account@redrica - First London Steem Meetup of 2019 | Friday 18th Jan 12pm onwards | High Street Kensington
APRIL 2019
Hive account@steemcampuk / 
Hive account@lloyddavis - Save The Date - Saturday 6 April, SteemCampUK event in the Midlands, UK
MAY 2019
Hive account@dtube.forum - Q & A - Your Questions & Our Answers about DTube Forum
DECEMBER 2019
Hive account@steemfiesta - SteemFIESTA 2019 - The First Five Days of DECEMBER - Summer in the South!
NEWS FROM DAPPS, APPS & DEVS
Hive account@dlike / Hive account@taskmaster4450 - Dlike Issued First In A Series Of Updates
Hive account@dsound / Hive account@prc - DSound - Is this the end?
Hive account@knacksteem / 
Hive account@knowledges - Knacksteem [Task-Request] - Create a voting bot and a function to keep track of KNT distribution
Hive account@knacksteem / 
Hive account@tobias-g - [Knacksteem] Loading site via http:// doesn't redirect to https://
NEWS FROM GAMES
Hive account@magicdice / Hive account@themarkymark - Is Magic Dice Provably Fair?
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---1512019
MEDIA COVERAGE OF STEEM & STEEMIT INC
Invest In Blockchain - STEEM Experiences Short-Term Recovery After Apparent Censorship From SteemIT — Can The Recovery Continue To Drive Price Action Above $0.30?
This is #44 (15 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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