One great big story...
Steemit Inc have halted their full powerdown.
The last topic specific State of Steem Forum on Thursday is all about Steem Commerce.
And a dog called Milo desparately needs help.
Steemit Inc Stops Powerdown
Steemit Inc have halted the full powerdown of 42 million Steempower that they started after the HardFork 21 proposal.
Executive Chair Ned Scott mentioned that he and the Steemit Inc Board were looking at ending the powerdown during an interview on MSP Waves last Thursday.
To the relief of much of the community the brakes have been put on the full powerdown.
Steemit Inc are now just running the much smaller powerdown of approximately 3 million SP for the regular programmatic selling of Steem.
Top witness 
Hive account@aggroed gave an initial response to the news...
Korean steemian 
Hive account@lostmine27 provided further details...
State of Steem Forum #7 - Thursday 7 February, 8pm - 11pm UTC
The State of Steem Forum #7 on Thursday covers Steem Commerce. The forum will be looking at ways to encourage businesses to take payments in STEEM / SBD, and at the current state of steem in commerce. The forum runs from 8pm - 11pm UTC / 3pm - 6pm EST on MSP Waves.
Contributors on this week's forum include 
Hive account@artonmysleeve, 
Hive account@danielvehe, 
Hive account@disregardfiat, 
Hive account@imacryptorick, 
Hive account@jongolson, 
Hive account@nateonsteem, 
Hive account@papa-pepper, 
Hive account@sagescrub, 
Hive account@teamhumble, 
Hive account@thecryptodrive, 
Hive account@theycallmedan, 
Hive account@upheaver and 
Hive account@dearw.
TARC needs help
Tazewell Animal Rescue Center in Virginia, USA has hit hard times and is appealing for emergency funding help from the Steem community.
Founder of the Center and well known Steemian 
Hive account@rhondak gives details in the latest 
Hive account@tarc post of how frozen pipes has caused a major problem.
On top of that resident guardian dog Milo has been badly injured during the course of his duties which leaves the center with the added burden of large veterinary bills.
TARC, Milo and Rhonda would all be extremely grateful for any donations big or small...
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price |
US$ 0.286 |
2019-02-05 0.43am UTC |
| SBD price |
US$ 0.900 |
2019-02-05 0.43am UTC |
| Market Cap |
US$ 89,839,192 |
2019-02-05 0.43am UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking |
#47 (-1) |
2019-02-05 0.43am UTC |
| No. of Whales |
36 (n/c) |
2019-02-03 |
| No. of Orcas |
324 (n/c) |
2019-02-03 |
| No. of Dolphins |
1980 (-2) |
2019-02-03 |
| No. of Minnows |
9119 (-4) |
2019-02-03 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) |
#4330 (+2) |
2019-02-04 8.18pm UTC |
Follow 
Hive account@penguinpablo & 
Hive account@steem-data for more statistics.
NEWS FROM STEEMIT INC
Hive account@elipowell - Post #2: Thank You
Hive account@steemitblog - Splitting Condenser: Social + Wallet
NEWS FROM THE STEEM ALLIANCE
Hive account@steemalliance - New Working Group Announcement | Official Election Results
Hive account@steemalliance / 
Hive account@rivalzzz - Record of Steem Alliance Voting - WorkingGroup Nominations
Hive account@steemalliance / 
Hive account@tdre - Community Approval Rating — Steem Alliance Working Group
NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES
#1 Hive account@aggroed - Powerdown Stopped and a thank you!
#4 
Hive account@roelandp - Proof.ink - Proven immutable data - File hashes stored on the Steem blockchain
#33 
Hive account@emrebeyler - New version of Tower (Hivemind + REST)
#35 
Hive account@blockbrothers / 
Hive account@exyle - Powerdown Statistics #3 - January 22th - Februari 4th + I powered up 8000 STEEM
#37 
Hive account@steemhunt - Making STEEM Trading Pairs for SMT to potentially reach Top 20 Exchange, Term 14 Influencers | Sponsor Report - #42
#41 
Hive account@jackmiller - Bots: FACTS & FIGURES. (Part FOUR - 4.2)
#57 
Hive account@partiko - Partiko Weekly Report #17 - Partiko Referral Program
#63 
Hive account@dragosroua - Witness Update - DragosRoua
#63 Hive account@dragosroua - My Witness Position On The So-Called Steem Fork
#106 
Hive account@quochuy - Witness Earnings Report - 2019-02-04
To keep up to date with more posts from witnesses follow 
Hive account@witnesspage ...
NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS
Hive account@buildteam - BuildTeam - Staking Performance Review of the BUILDTEAM Token
Hive account@felixxx - SBD Conversion
Hive account@impactn - Development of a joint marketing and PR strategy of the Steem ecosystem - final results
Hive account@impactn - READ! VOTE! RESTEEM! Your opinion is valuable for the development of communities on Steem
Hive account@lostmine27 - [en/kr] 2 recent STEEM hot issues / STEEM의 최근 2가지 핫 이슈
Hive account@penguinpablo - Weekly Steem Stats Report - Monday, February 4, 2019
Hive account@rok-sivante - “Which Blockchain Shall Win...?”
Hive account@tarazkp - A little old farm
NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
Hive account@steemcenterwiki - January's STEEM tokens transfers and first donations and participants in February
Hive account@tarc - We Need Emergency Help, Fast
NEWS FROM EVENTS & MEETUPS
24 FEBRUARY 2019 - MALAYSIA, PENANG
Hive account@bitrocker2020 - Steem Sharing Bootcamp / The Settlements Co-Working Space in Penang
30 MARCH 2019 - USA, MINNEAPOLIS
Hive account@ddrfr33k - Let's plan another Minneapolis Meetup!
6 APRIL 2019 - UK, LEICESTER
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 - STATE OF THE PROJECT @dtube.forum 04/02/2019
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
1Up / 
Hive account@steem-1up - Developer For Simple CSS Transfer Wanted
Hivemind / Tower / Hive account@emrebeyler - New version of Tower (Hivemind + REST)
Hive account@partiko - Partiko Weekly Report #17 - Partiko Referral Program
Hive account@steemhunt - Making STEEM Trading Pairs for SMT to potentially reach Top 20 Exchange, Term 14 Influencers | Sponsor Report - #42
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 #64 (4 Feb '19) of this daily news service.
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