Steemit Inc looks back on a successful month.
STEEM is added to the CIX100 cryptocurrency index, Splinterlands is in a healthy state, and SteemFest 4 goes to the Post Office.
And there is news and discussion about SteemPeak, TypeEarn, SPUD 007, SteemLeo, SteemChurch Nigeria, Steem Meetups around the world...
1. Steemit Inc Monthly Retrospective
Steemit Inc have posted their latest monthly retrospective. Good progress on SMTs and Hivemind Communities have been the main highlights of the past four weeks...
2. STEEM in CIX100 cryptocurrency index
Although STEEM is only placed at #45 in the index with a weighting of 0.02% being in such an index is good visibility for STEEM. Currently the index shows STEEM as a strong buy...
3. State of the Splinterlands
He reports on a range of positive, healthy metrics for the game including an All Time High of 3,006 players in a single day...
Splinterlands is also now giving a set of printed Alpha cards for anyone pledging $1000 on the Untamed Kickstarter campaign...
4. SteemFest 4 updates
SteemFest organiser 
Roundtable sessions are also back on the agenda. If anyone is interested in running one apply now...
5. Curating SteemPeak related content
Use the tag #peakreview for relevant content...
6. TypeEarn updates
New typing skills app TypeEarn has made some changes to the minimum withdrawal level to help stabilise the value of its TPC token...
@BuildTeam has posted a review of TypeEarn as a promising new app on the platform...
7. SPUD 007 coming to a screen near you
Organiser 
More sponsors are welcome...
8. SteemLeo burns almost a million
Investment focused tribe @SteemLeo has posted another 'burn report' showing that it has now burnt almost 1 million LEO tokens, representing over 18% of the total supply...
9. SteemChurch Nigeria meetup
The Enugu States Chapter of SteemChurch Nigeria reports on a successful first meetup, which included discussion of how to best utilise the new office that has been offered to them.
SteemChurch Nigeria is part of 
10. Calendar of Steem Meetups & Events
Still to come this month are meetups in Australia, Austria, the Philippines and the USA.
Next month, as a follow up to SteemFest 4, 
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & 
]
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price | US$ 0.148 | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 0.682 | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #78 (+1) | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
| FCAS Score | 803 (n/c) / A / #20 | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
| No. of Whales | 39 (n/c) | 15 Oct '19 |
| No. of Orcas | 357 (n/c) | 15 Oct '19 |
| No. of Dolphins | 2173 (+1) | 15 Oct '19 |
| No. of Minnows | 9234 (-4) | 15 Oct '19 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) | #9,829 (-555) | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 125,388 / day | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 326,008 / day | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
| Alexa rank (steempeak.com) | #57,334 (+1010) | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
| Unique visitors (steempeak.com) | 16,967 / day | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
| Page views (steempeak.com) | 95,016 / day | 17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC |
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Visit the Steem Meetups & Events Calendar for a full list of meetups coming up...
This is #206 (18 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.
