The latest news ....
Hard Fork-21 is less than two weeks away.....
It is scheduled for August 27, at 15:00:00 UTC time
Just touching on a couple of the major changes taken from github........
https://github.com/steemit/steem/releases/tag/v0.21.0
The new rewards will go from 70%/25% to a 50/%/50%
Reduce Curation Reverse Auction Window
curation reverse auction window will be reduced to FIVE minutes......
I had read that this was going to one minute, so if anyone can add some information to this silvertop would appreciate it!!
Steem is testing .17 cents also, let's hope this holds!!!
BTC is up $317.35 this morning at $10,358.79
Actifit has added two new tokens for automatic tags when you post your daily 
Steemzzang that pays out in ZZAN, and Sportstalk that pays out with Sports !!!
They seem committed to holding the exchange value at .036 cents per AFIT token.
High Five to 
Here is the latest on the rewards pool......
Remember this is the total Steem in the fund. This can fluctuate with power up's power down's ....... and Steem payouts.
Let's see where we are at !!!!!
Todays rewards fund/pool in Steem 937,028
the upward volume continues!
let's check the USD price ......
Todays rewards fund/pool in USD $203,203
Now take a look at Steem.....
The value of Steem in USD is .... .217 cents, this is the Steem feed price, if you look at the markets price it is at .17 cents this morning........
The above chart is reflecting the Steem feed price.....
The price of SBD is at .83 ......
For the moment Steem is just bouncing between .169 and .175 cents .....
I try to post this regularly, and when I see a larger change, and when I spot something new ....
I created these graphs personally, so I could follow the total USD and total Steem in the Rewards fund. These are strictly for educational purposes and not be taken as financial advice....... I hope you found them helpful! 
I believe we have something special here on Steem!!!
and I also believe we have something special with Steem-Engine and the SCOT coins!!!
Here are some links that might also be helpful :
Spot BTC: 10,358.79 +317.35
Spot Gold: 1,510.20 -12.70
Spot Silver: 17.09 -.14
Spot Palladium: 1,427.00 -1.00
Crude Oil 54.73 +.26
DJIA : 25,848.94 +269.55
Steem base feed price .217
Steem Market price .17
SBD .83
Actifit SP: 535,785.64 -22,365.91
Upvotebuilders: SP24,850.79 +2,161.63
Steemcryptosicko SP: 54,736.51 +592.67
TIPU: SP 2,684,019.00 -17,013.20
palnet.io is built on the Steem blockchain and has the same witnesses. Pal is the native token, and you can stake your Pal like powering up.
You can buy PALM and PALMM tokens that are PAL miners!
If you add the tag palnet, and now steemleo and now zzan, neoxian , sportstalk and partiko to your post you will be posting to all of these and possibly get rewards on all of these!
The list of new tribes continues!!!
Just be aware that some tags like steemleo are for investments/crypto post only...
PAL token: .0426
PALM token: 4.75 (mining token )
PALMM token: 8.69 (faster mining token )
LEO token: .01448
NEOXAG: .00435
ZZAN: .00869
Sports: .0002
AFIT: .00053
AFITX (NEW) 1.60 +.26
TPU: .244
STEEMP: .17 (Steem-Peg)
A big shout out to
Exciting times to come!!!!!
A big shout out to 
UpvoteBuilders a team of upvote builders creating better rewards for content creators through upvotes - There Is Power In Unity
https://steem-engine.com This is a new DEX (Distributed Exchange )
https://actifit.io The steem Dapp that pays you steem and AFIT tokens that are exchangeable for upvotes......... get out and exercise! :)
12,000+ Steem volume and 240,000+ AFIT tokens sold that day!!
Now not only does
AFIT Tokens...
Way to go
Guys keep your eyes on
Also check out 
https://steemblockexplorer.com/ ( your user name here )
https://steemd.com/( your user name here )
https://steem.supply/( your user name here )
https://steemnow.com/upvotecalc.html
https://steemworld.org/( your user name here )
https://freedomex.io Smart Media Exchange
https://steemit.com/steembasicincome
https://steem-engine.rocks/@(your user name) This is Steem-Engine explorer
They were having a very difficult time understanding how to set up a Steem account.
I found a "free account" and set up their keys for them.
We really need to make this simpler for the non-crypto people!!!!
Sometime next week
Be sure to check them out when they do there intro post next week to encourage them!!!
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