The Steem News @ 14 October 2019

Hive Communities beta is coming within weeks.

SteemPeak releases v1.18, Nitrous and ScotBot update, and KryptoGamers 2.0 launches.

And there is news and discussion about Splinterlands, Sonic Grove Live, awesome-steem, SBDs, Tasteem, and the Steem2020 Contest with a prize pool of over 1500 STEEM...

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1. Hive Communities beta within weeks

Steemit Inc MD Eli Powell Hive account@elipowell and Senior Product Engineer
Tim Fesenko Hive account@roadscape appeared on TRIBE.talk yesterday to talk about the imminent arrival of Hive Communities.

Hive Communities will not need a hardfork, and a closed beta is now only weeks away...

• TRIBE.talk with @elipowell & @roadscape of Steemit Inc & @jongolson - Monday 14 October 2019

Hive account@soyrosa has produced a comprehensive summary of the discussion on the show...

• What I learned about Hive Communities from @roadscape and @elipowell

Hive account@taskmaster4450 has carried on the discussion further. Will sub-Reddits move over to Steem Communities...

• Communities: Another Piece That Will Have A Major Impact

SteemLeo founder Hive account@khaleelkazi picked up from the show about the low 3 STEEM cost currently proposed for setting up a Hive Community. He suggests that it should be higher...

• Why Steemit, Inc. NEEDS to Increase the Community Creation Fee

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2. SteemPeak releases v1.18

Steempeak has released a new version of its popular Steem frontend with a number of new and improved features for managing Steem-Engine tokens and for setting SPS/Witness proxies, as well as an enhanced search system...

• SteemPeak Release - Update v1.18 - Wallet Improvements and Witness / SPS Proxy

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3. Nitrous & ScotBot updates

Developer Hive account@eonwarped has announced a new version of Nitrous, the Tribe Condenser based frontend, that includes improvements to the account history and resteeming...

• Nitrous v1.0.5 + ScotBot Updates - Account History API, Feed Improvements, Multiple-Tribe Instances

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4. KryptoGamers 2.0 launches

'Provably Fair' gaming platform KryptoGamers has launched version 2.0.

Much More Prettier, Faster, Robust, and User Friendly...

• Launching KryptoGamers 2.0 - Much More Prettier, Faster, Robust, and User Friendly

The free to play BRO Casino Hive account@brosino has posted an update with news of interface improvements, advertising opportunities and new weekly contests...

• BROsino Update - 14 October 2019

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5. Splinterlands reaches new All Time Highs

Splinterlands co-founder Hive account@aggroed has announced that the game has just hit another All-Time-High with 2,783 accounts playing on one day.

Over 100,000 of the new Untamed card packs have already been sold, and the Kickstarter campaign has now passed $120K...

• New All Time High For Accounts Playing Splinterlands- First Airdrop Almost Sold Out!

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6. Sonic Grove Live Week 6 winners

Music contest Hive account@sonicgroovelive has announced this week's winners - Hive account@jeremyowens9501, Hive account@davidsuarezms and Hive account@eugelys...

• SGL Week 6 Winners Announcement!

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7. awesome-steem for Steem developers

Picking up on the series of awesome projects on GitHub which compile indexes of the coolest projects and tools made by the community for specific technologies, Hive account@robertyan is building awesome-steem which lists all the most important links and resources for steem developers...

• awesome-steem for Steem developers

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8. Where do we go with SBDs

Discussion about the future of SBDs continues. Long time steemian Hive account@dana-edwards takes a different tack to the increasingly voiced call for its cancellation with a suggested proposal to upgrade the SBD to create a multicollateral Dai equivalent...

• Will Steem developers fix/upgrade the Steem Dollar? (Multicollateral Steem)

• Fix/upgrade the Steem Dollar? Toward a proposal

Hive account@thehive has also posted with his thoughts on what should be done with the SBD...

• Let's Talk Steem/SBD

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9. Tasteem Weekly Contests

Hive account@siamcat has posted this week's contest themes for restaurant review site Hive account@tasteem including 'Steak Lover' and 'Coffee Break'...

• Weekly Contests Tasteem Global 🧡(Monday 14/10/2019 - Sunday 20/10/2019) This week new contests!

The Hive account@build-it tribe is running a contest with a prize of 1000 BUILD tokens...

• Build-It Contest: 1K BUILDs for 1st Award - Ending on 20th of Oct. 2019

And Hive account@ecoinstant's BUILDBETTER competition is reaching its conclusion...

• Huge Prize Pool Supporting STEEM - built projects: Come inside for the #BUILDBETTER BOUNTY!

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10. Steem2020 Contest - 1500+ STEEM prize pool

With the advent of SMTs and Hive Communities 2020 is going to be a big year for Steem. In recognition of this Hive account@pennsif has launched a contest inviting people to put forward their ideas, suggestions and plans for what Steem needs to do to grow and prosper next year.

Hive account@pennsif's initial prize pool of 120 STEEM has now been generously doubled by Hive account@theycallmedan. Hive account@yabapmatt of Splinterlands has also kindly donated 100 Untamed edition booster packs, and Hive account@starkerz of Hive account@yoodoo and 3speak.online has offered some high value upvotes...

• [CONTEST] Steem2020 - what should Steem do next year & how will you help [120 STEEM prize pool]

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & Hive account@arcange ]

(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)

Steem price	US$ 0.138	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC
SBD price	US$ 0.669	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#84 (+1)	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC
FCAS Score	805 (-1) / A / #20	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC
No. of Whales	39 (n/c)	13 Oct '19
No. of Orcas	359 (n/c)	13 Oct '19
No. of Dolphins	2169 (n/c)	13 Oct '19
No. of Minnows	9239 (-6)	13 Oct '19
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#9,116 (-74)	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	135,907 / day	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	352,000 / day	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC
Alexa rank (steempeak.com)	#59,028 (+450)	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC
Unique visitors (steempeak.com)	16,967 / day	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC
Page views (steempeak.com)	95,016 / day	15 Oct '19 01.31am UTC

Follow Hive account@penguinpablo, Hive account@steem-data & Hive account@eforucom for more statistics.

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Visit the Steem Meetups & Events Calendar for a full list of meetups coming up...

• Calendar of Steem Meetups & Events @ 11 October 2019

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This is #203 (14 Oct '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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