The last of the series of State of Steem Forums took place on Thursday.
Steemit Inc releases this week's engineering update.
DTalk talks about their recent fundraising experience.
The 20 finalists for 
Hive account@theycallmedan's latest 20K SP Delegation DPoll are announced.
The GAME Show launches on MSP Waves next Thursday.
The State of Steem Forum #9 - The Grand Finale
The last of the series of State of Steem Forums took place on Thursday on MSP Waves.
SoS Forum #9 was the second of the two wrap-up, where do we go from here forums.
This forum covered the remaining six of the 'Big Dozen' key indicator projects identified for Steem for 2019 - Advertising, SteemOnboarding, Steem Business Alliance, DApps & Apps, Exchanges and Direct Fiat / Steem Conversion.
The speakers on this final forum were Ned Scott 
Hive account@ned, Elizabeth Powell 
Hive account@elipowell, Andrew Levine 
Hive account@andrarchy and David 
Hive account@birdinc from Steemit Inc, 
Hive account@anarcotech (Oracle-D), 
Hive account@bait002 (SteemExchanger), 
Hive account@bluefinstudios (Welcome Wagon), 
Hive account@crypto.talk (Partiko), 
Hive account@dreemsteem (Welcome Wagon), 
Hive account@fredrikaa (SteemPress), 
Hive account@jongolson (SteemSavvy), 
Hive account@project7 (SteemHunt), 
Hive account@starkerz (Oracle-D), 
Hive account@xcountytravelers (Steem Terminal) and 
Hive account@yucee (SteemExchanger).
The recording of the forum is available in case you missed it...
Steemit Engineering Update
Steemit Inc have released an update on progress on various projects over the past week.
The post covers developments on the Condenser / Wallet split, on RocksDB / MIRA and on further cost reductions...
DTube Fundraising’s Experience
The DTube team has spent the last few months investigating various fundraising options to move towards greater financial sustainability.
They have investigated both ICOs and Venture Capital investors, but so far have not moved forward with either of these options.
DTube have also been expanding their team with a number of new recruits over the past few months including 
Hive account@steeminator, 
Hive account@macron, 
Hive account@mercussio, 
Hive account@hetmasteen and 
Hive account@albanlaurent.
They are still looking for more team members...
- UI / UX: DTube will go through a major redesign of all UIs (web + official mobile apps)
- Desktop app developer: we need a developer to work on our future desktop app to help creators manage their uploads and increase decentralization of file storage
- Social networks and community relations: we will claim accounts and need influencers to help us spread the good word and design marketing collateral
20,000 SP Delegation dPoll
Hive account@theycallmedan has now announced the 20 finalists for the poll to win the 20,000 SP delegation for a year.
The finalists are 
Hive account@celfmagazine 
Hive account@cn-malaysia 
Hive account@cnstm 
Hive account@crypto.piotr 
Hive account@freewritehouse 
Hive account@help.venezuela 
Hive account@homesteaderscoop 
Hive account@la-colmena 
Hive account@naturalmedicine 
Hive account@onelovedtube 
Hive account@partiko 
Hive account@qurator 
Hive account@rutablockchain 
Hive account@sc-v 
Hive account@steemchurch 
Hive account@steemitbloggers 
Hive account@steemnurse 
Hive account@team-cn 
Hive account@teamcn-shop 
Hive account@wherein.
The GAME Show - starting next Thursday on MSP Waves
Following the end of series 1 of the State of Steem Forums, 
Hive account@pennsif is launching a new show next Thursday called The GAME Show.
The show will cover games, gaming, gambling, contests, competitions and challenges on Steem.
There will be interviews with game developers and contest creators, discussion, game reviews, updates, tips, tricks and the latest hot news from the Steem gaming world.
And there will be contests and quizzes thrown in for good measure. The GAME tokens will be flowing...
While The GAME Show will focus mainly on games on Steem it will also be celebrating, exploring and publicising some of the many, many contests that are run on the platform. So many ways to win...
(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: 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 - 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@tdre - Community Approval Rating — Steem Alliance Working Group [Week 8 - 2019]
Hive account@steemalliance - OFFICIAL CALL FOR STRUCTURE PROPOSALS | STAGE ONE
THE STEEM ALLIANCE : FOUNDATION STRUCTURE PROPOSALS
Hive account@jackmiller - STEEM UNITED 1.0 - "INTRO" (Video) by @jackmiller - witness
Hive account@jackmiller - PROPOSAL "STEEM UNITED" 1.0 by @jackmiller (witness)
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@impactn - DeCentra Steem - a proposal to develop a self-governed structure for foundation and Steem ecosystem
NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES
#14 
Hive account@themarkymark - Global Blacklist API Now Support Oracle-D's Blacklist
#15 
Hive account@utopian-io / 
Hive account@utopian.tasks - [1000 STEEM BOUNTY] Design Badges for the Utopian Indiegogo Campaign
#38 
Hive account@blockbrothers / 
Hive account@exyle - How much have you spend on Steem Monsters or Drug Wars?
#42 
Hive account@actifit - Actifit Daily: Actifit Radio Show This Friday. (& Our Daily Updates)
#47 Hive account@jackmiller - STEEM UNITED - Red Tape Nightmares Solved. (Video) by @jackmiller (witness)
#53 Hive account@partiko - Value of Partiko Points About to Go Up
#53 
Hive account@holger80 - Using steemrewarding.com for gaining back vote strength after delegaing to a project due to RC
#62 
Hive account@steemgigs / 
Hive account@surpassinggoogle - Are You Interested In Getting 'Certified' Under The Teardrops SMT Ecosystem?
#65 
Hive account@dragosroua - Full SBD Payments Are Back, As SBD Printing Rate Is Stabilizing At 100%
#65 Hive account@dragosroua - A Digital Nomad Toolkit
#92 
Hive account@bitrocker2020 - DTube Forum & Penang Steem Sharing Bootcamp ! Support a Fundition campaign
#92 Hive account@bitrocker2020 - STEEM's SMT Trading Exchange
To keep up to date with more posts from witnesses follow 
Hive account@witnesspage ...
NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS
Hive account@jongolson - Stop Waiting For Upvotes & Delegation...Build This Thing Yourself!
Hive account@kay-leclerc - The Number One Thing To Make Steemit Go Mainstream
Hive account@penguinpablo - Weekly report: How much STEEM is stored on the exchanges? - February 21, 2019
Hive account@perceptualflaws - Thoughts On The State Of Steemit & Why Humility Is The Path To Wisdom
Hive account@runicar - "SMTs" Going to be launched on Daybit exchange - Steemhunt, eSteem, Utopian, Actifit, Fundition, Tasteem, Tripsteem, Dclick, nTOPAZ, K-pop Steem, dLike
Hive account@tarazkp - Playing and gaming Steem for immortality
Hive account@theycallmedan - Top 20 Winners Entering The 20k SP Delegation dPoll
Hive account@theycallmedan - Which Steem Project Should I Delegate 20k SteemPower To For 1 Year?
NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
Hive account@homesteaderscoop - Announcing Our New Logo! Designed by @FrejaFri
NEWS FROM EVENTS & MEETUPS
27 FEBRUARY 2019 - UK, LONDON
Hive account@redrica - One week left to go! 2nd London Steem Meetup of 2019 | Wed 27th Feb 3pm onwards | High Street Kensington
22 MARCH 2019 - GERMANY, AACHEN
Hive account@detlev - Steemit Meetup Aachen 5 - Save the date for March 22nd
3 MARCH 2019 - AUSTRALIA, ADELAIDE
Hive account@mattclarke - Its been 18 months since the first Adelaide BBQ; next one is 2 weeks away - March 3rd
4 MARCH 2019 - USA, CALIFORNIA, TARZANA
Hive account@socalsteemit - SoCal Steemit Meetup - Live Blues in Tarzana CA
30 MARCH 2019 - USA, MINNEAPOLIS
Hive account@ddrfr33k - Let's plan another Minneapolis Meetup!
6 APRIL 2019 - MALAYSIA, PENANG
Hive account@bitrocker2020 - Its now confirmed ! Steem Sharing Bootcamp Penang
6 APRIL 2019 - UK, LEICESTER
Hive account@shanibeer - Tidy Friday - Talking about SteemCampUK: February 15 2019
Hive account@steemcampuk - Get Your Tickets For SteemCampUK 2
Hive account@steemcampuk / Hive account@shanibeer - SteemCampUK 2 - Growing an Audience of Smart Investors
11 MAY 2019 - JAPAN, TOKYO
Hive account@yoshiko - 5月11日のお知らせです。
17 - 19 MAY 2019 - SPAIN, BARCELONA
Hive account@dtube.forum - WHAT IS THIS PROJECT ABOUT?! DTube FORUM | 2019 BARCELONA
20 - 23 JUNE 2019 - USA, COLORADO
Hive account@thealliance - The 'BLOCK' Party (Update - 02/18/19)
22 JUNE 2019 - USA, OREGON, PORTLAND
Hive account@canna-curate - Canna Steem Fest 2019
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
Hive account@steemdapps - Daily SteemApps.com Report - Wednesday, 20th February 2019
Hive account@actifit - Actifit Daily: Actifit Radio Show This Friday. (& Our Daily Updates)
Hive account@dtube - DTube Fundraising’s experience with VCs (and our next move…)
DTube / 
Hive account@sergiomendes - VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Help Dtube get Verified on Twitter
Hive account@partiko - Value of Partiko Points About to Go Up
Steemhunt / 
Hive account@jayplayco - [Steemhunt] Getting Pre-SMT projects on an exchange
Hive account@steemonboarding - Project Update for Steem Onboarding!
NEWS FROM GAMES
DrugWars / Hive account@birdinc - Drug Wars [dapp.com]
DrugWars / 
Hive account@californiacrypto - Everything You Need to Know About DrugWars...
DrugWars / 
Hive account@kevinwong - What's everyone smokin' in Drugwars?
Steem Monsters / 
Hive account@abh12345 - Burning @steemmonsters Cards!
Steem Monsters / 
Hive account@bscrypto - Steem Monsters Tutorial... How to beat the BOTS with lvl 1 cards!
Steem Monsters / 
Hive account@jrvacation - Steemmonsters - Burn your (worthless) cards and get HUGE upvote!
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 #81 (21 Feb '19) of this daily news service.
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