Starting in 35 minutes this week's State of the Steem Forum #7 will be focusing on SteemCommerce.
Steemit Inc Executive Chairman Ned Scott and Managing Director Elizabeth Powell will be coming along for discussion and questions in the first hour.
Ned and Elizabeth will be giving an update on events of the past week including RocksDB progress, Blocktrades and the new Worker Proposal System, the Steem Alliance and the Steem Wallet bifurcation.
The Forum will take place on the MSP Waves Discord channel between 8pm and 11pm UTC.
Forum 7 (Thursday 7 February) : SteemCommerce
This forum will be looking at ways to encourage businesses to accept payments in Steem/SBD.
Recently I have been exploring the possibilities of using CoinPayments.Net to promote STEEM payments...
The full list of speakers lined up for the forum so far includes...
- UK entrepreneur looking to take STEEM payments
- member of the Steem Merchants team
- developer of
- leading member of the Israeli Steem community
- developer of
- member of Homesteaderscoop.com
- vendor on Homesteaderscoop.com
- co-founder of
& online entrepreneur
- witness and developer
- vendor on Homesteaderscoop.com
A number of other prominent steemians may be in the Discord audience chat including 
I should be joined by
If you have any questions you would like to ask or if you would like to come on to speak please message me on Discord (Pennsif#9921) or Steem.Chat (Pennsif).
The five State of Steem Forums held so far have been well received.
The first was an 'overview' forum with 19 witnesses and community leaders giving their view on the current State of Steem including 
The recording of the forum is available if you missed it...
The second forum focussed on Steem Technology and covered topics such as nodes, RocksDB, SMTs, RC Delegation Pools, Account creation. It also explored the decision making mechanisms to move development forward as Steemit Inc pulls back.
The speakers on that forum included 
The recording of the forum is available...
Forum #3 covered DApps, Apps and Developments. Topics discussed included business plans, delegations and marketing.
The people who spoke on the forum were 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
Forum #4 covered Steem Economics. Topics discussed included steem inflation, attracting investors, revenue streams, advertising. Steemit Inc CEO Ned Scott also made a special guest appearance.
The people who spoke on the forum were 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
Forum #5 covered Marketing, PR and Onboarding.
The people who spoke on the forum were 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
Last week's Forum #6 covered ommunities, content creation, curation and retention.
The people who spoke on the forum were 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
The forum was preceded by an hour of discussion and questions with Steemit Inc's Executive Chair Ned Scott, Managing Director Elizabeth Powell and lead blockchain developer Michael Vandeberg 
The recording is available in case you missed it...
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Where to find the forums & how to listen in
The forums will air on MSP Waves Radio on Thursdays from 8pm to 11pm UTC.
If you need to convert UTC time to your local time visit World Time Buddy
You will be able to listen through the PAL Discord server, via mspwaves.com, Vimm.TV or on Twitch at twitch.tv/mspwaves.
To join in with the chat during the forums please join the PAL/MSP Discord server.
