Steem News is back from its winter break and packed full of great news from the Steem blockchain.
There are updates on NFTs and Steem-Engine, Holybread, Splinterlands, BEERpong, CTP and Fire Pay, Actifit, Natural Medicine and Promo-Steem.
A new Diary Dates section has been added as well as regular update features on the Steem Foundation and the Steem Proposal System...
1. NFTs coming to Steem-Engine
NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are imminently arriving on Steem-Engine.
NFTs will open up a whole new ranges of use cases for Steem-Engine. NFTs can represent anything that needs to be kept track of with its own ID...
2. New game Holybread launches on 27 January
A new RPG style browsergame is currently being developed for Steem by 
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3. Splinterlands Public API changes
4. BEERpong is coming to Steem
A first draft, single player version of the game is scheduled for release in February...
5. CTP announces Fire Pay integration
ClickTrackProfit, the affiliate marketing Steem tribe run by 
The service has already been added to a number of partner sites including CupOfTraffic.com, TrafficInsider and SiteXplosion.
This new development means you can now pay for advertising products and services using the CTP token...
6. Actifit launches new AFIT Burn Initiative
@Actifit has started an initiative to burn 10 STEEM worth of AFIT tokens every day to help the token price...
7. Natural Medicine Delegations
8. Current Promo-Steem Initiatives
Steem Foundation update
The Steem Alliance Community Foundation 
Their next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 15 January.
Steem Proposal System update
The Steem Proposal System (SPS) today has a daily funding budget available of approximately 2245 SBD.
Currently four proposals by 
One new proposal, by 
Dates for your Diary...
Tuesday 14 January, 6pm UTC - 'Curation Corner' with 
Hosts 
Wednesday 15 January, 6pm UTC - Witness Chat
Wednesday 15 January - Philadelphia Meetup
Organised by 
Thursday 16 January, 10pm UTC - 'Discomfort Zone'
Eco-Village co-founder 
Saturday 1 February - SPUD#10
The tenth monthly Steem Power Up Day organised by 
Friday 7 February - Steem Meetup Aachen #8
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & 
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(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price | US$ 0.130 | 13 Jan '20 9.13pm UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 0.600 | 13 Jan '20 9.13pm UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #78 (+9) | 13 Jan '20 9.13pm UTC |
| FCAS Score | 724 (-73) / B / #41 | 13 Jan '20 9.13pm UTC |
| No. of Whales | 36 (-3) | 12 Jan '20 |
| No. of Orcas | 374 (+17) | 12 Jan '20 |
| No. of Dolphins | 2196 (+7) | 12 Jan '20 |
| No. of Minnows | 9301 (+6) | 12 Jan '20 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) | #14,275 (+875) | 13 Jan '20 9.08pm UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 231,349 / day | 13 Jan '20 9.08pm UTC |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 555,237 / day | 13 Jan '20 9.08pm UTC |
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This is #232 (13 Jan '20) of this daily news service - the last edition #231 was on 21 November 2019.