State of Steem Forum #6 on communities, content creation, curation and retention took place on Thursday.
The forum was proceeded by an hour plus discussion with Ned Scott, Elizabeth Powell and Michael Vandeberg from Steemit Inc and Dan from 
Hive account@blocktrades.
State of Steem Forum #6 - Thursday 31 January
State of Steem Forum #6 covering communities, content creation, curation and retention took place on MSP Waves on Thursday.
The forum included input from 
Hive account@shredz7 about his new Stratos DApp with the Communities feature built in.
Other contributors to the forum included 
Hive account@carrieallen (Helpie), 
Hive account@clixmoney (
Hive account@dcooperation), 
Hive account@enginewitty (The Alliance), 
Hive account@hauptmann (
Hive account@dtube.forum), 
Hive account@jonyoudyer (Canna-Curate), 
Hive account@shadowspub (Rambling Radio), 
Hive account@starkerz (
Hive account@oracle-d) and 
Hive account@taskmaster4450.
Hive account@traveller7761 also gave an update on the project to develop a joint marketing and PR strategy of the Steem ecosystem...
Before the forum, there was an hour long discussion with Steemit Inc Executive Chair Ned Scott, Managing Director Elizabeth Powell and lead blockchain developer Michael Vandeberg 
Hive account@vandeberg, along with Dan from Hive account@blocktrades.
Ned and Michael gave a full update on the RocksDB developments to reduce witness node memory requirements. This is now entering its final testing phase.
Dan from Hive account@blocktrades then joined Ned in an extensive discussion about the proposal for the Worker Proposal System for Steem. They are currently refining the proposal and looking for comment and input from the community.
Elizabeth gave an update on progress on advertising and other current activities in Steemit Inc. Ned finished with a brief commentary on the future powerdown plans.
The recordings for both the forum and the discussion with Ned, Elizabeth, Michael and Dan will be posted very shortly.
One to watch...
Hive account@swapsteem is to be a 'Decentralized p2p Exchange for the Steem Blockchain'.
The Hive account@swapsteem team have just launched a Fundition campaign to help fund development of the project...
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price |
US$ 0.274 |
2019-02-01 4.16pm UTC |
| SBD price |
US$ 0.847 |
2019-02-01 4.16pm UTC |
| Market Cap |
US$ 85,839,597 |
2019-02-01 4.16pm UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking |
#51 (-2) |
2019-02-01 4.16pm UTC |
| No. of Whales |
37 (n/c) |
2019-01-30 |
| No. of Orcas |
323 (n/c) |
2019-01-30 |
| No. of Dolphins |
1976 (+2) |
2019-01-30 |
| No. of Minnows |
9119 (+2) |
2019-01-30 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) |
#4291 (-10) |
2019-02-01 4.16pm 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
Hive account@steemitblog - Steemit’s New Direction
NEWS FROM THE STEEM ALLIANCE
Hive account@steemalliance - New Working Group Announcement | Official Election Results
Hive account@steemalliance / 
Hive account@llfarms - The “Steem Alliance” Foundation Group | What it is, What it’s not, and my own personal take on it
Hive account@steemalliance / 
Hive account@lemouth-dev - Stake-based versus vote-based elections - an analysis toolkit
Hive account@steemalliance - Full Voter List | Full Transparency And A Call For The Community's Review
Hive account@steemalliance / 
Hive account@rivalzzz - Record of Steem Alliance Voting - WorkingGroup Nominations
NEWS FROM THE WITNESSES
#1 
Hive account@aggroed - Sunday - Steem Alliance discord meetup followed by tournaments with 1000 steem prize pool
#14 
Hive account@therealwolf - Witness Essentials: Pricefeed v1.0.2
#39 
Hive account@arcange - SteemSQL - Subscription fee change
#42 
Hive account@ocd-witness / 
Hive account@acidyo - OCDB Delegation
#49 
Hive account@firepower - Blockchain Use Cases For Indian Smart Cities
#55 
Hive account@holger80 - update for beem - get_blog, get_followers and get_following works for api.steemit.com
#62 
Hive account@dragosroua - Now You Can Buy Crypto With Credit Card On Binance
#66 
Hive account@steemgigs / 
Hive account@surpassinggoogle - SteemGigs.org Quick Update - We Will Be Adding Micro-Tasks
#70 
Hive account@steemcommunity / 
Hive account@abh12345 - A Case for Stake-weighted Voting?
To keep up to date with more posts from witnesses follow 
Hive account@witnesspage ...
NEWS FROM KEY PLAYERS & INFLUENCERS
Hive account@gadrian - January in Retrospect for Steem
Hive account@impactn - Development of a joint marketing and PR strategy of the Steem ecosystem - first results
Hive account@jongolson - Reason #328 For Online Entrepreneurs To Accept Crypto!
Hive account@lucylin - A quick scan around steemit...
Hive account@penguinpablo - Weekly report: How much STEEM is stored on the exchanges? - January 31, 2019
Hive account@runicar - [SOLVED] The Fuck Is Happening With Our Post Payouts? Posts Losing up to 25% Value At The Time Of Payout!
Hive account@steevc - Support your witnesses or we could lose them
Hive account@tarazkp - All the transactions, zero censorship
Hive account@taskmaster4450 - It Is Time To Drop The Mindset Of Competition
Hive account@taskmaster4450 - Communities MVP Is Here!
NEWS FROM COMMUNITIES
Hive account@canna-curate - Canna-Curate Is Evolving
Steem Merchants / 
Hive account@rutablockchain - Steem Merchants. Mukti Spa
Hive account@welcomewagon - Who else likes win/win/win/win situations?
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 / 
Hive account@lloyddavis - SteemCampUK 2 is coming to Leicester
Hive account@steemcampuk / 
Hive account@shanibeer - SteemCampUK 2 - Growing an Audience of Smart Investors
17 - 19 MAY 2019 - SPAIN, BARCELONA
Hive account@dtube.forum - COME TO THE DTube FORUM AND MEET @surfermarly and @heimindanger
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 GAMES
HashKings / 
Hive account@qwoyn - Land Grab
NEWS FROM DAPPS, APPS & DEVS
Beem / Hive account@holger80 - update for beem - get_blog, get_followers and get_following works for api.steemit.com
Hive account@dpoll / 
Hive account@emrebeyler - Auditing dPolls
SteemConnect / IPFS / 
Hive account@valium - Quick implementation of ipfs and steemconnect to your django application
Hive account@steemgigs / Hive account@surpassinggoogle - SteemGigs.org Quick Update - We Will Be Adding Micro-Tasks
Hive account@steempeak - UPDATES: Optional Pop-Out Panel + Remembing feed position
SteemSQL / Hive account@arcange - SteemSQL - Subscription fee change
Hive account@swapsteem - SwapSteem - Decentralized p2p Exchange for Steem Blockchain
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
Crypto Briefing - DApps Took In More Money Than App Store In First Year
CryptoNewsZ - ‘9/11 Papers Hacker Group’ has raised $42K in Bitcoin as Ransom since the Infamous Twitter Announcement This New Year’s Eve
EXTERNAL STEEM DATA
This is #60 (31 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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Hive account@pennsif ]
