Steemit Inc announces PISFs.
SPUD#6 is another success, Splinterlands betas are almost gone and Actifit looks to bring in Fitbit users.
And there is news and discussion about canonical links, Nitrous, Steem.Supply, SteemKnights, the Btcmyk Music Player and the 31st Steem Munich meetup...
1. SMTs done, PISFs coming next
Steemit Inc have posted that the development work on Smart Media Tokens has now just about been been completed and the next announcement will be about the release of the SMT Testnet in the next couple of weeks.
The team have now turned their attention to Platform Independent State Files (PISFs).
PISFs can be used to dramatically reduce downtime on exchanges while also increasing the level of decentralization in the ecosystem...
Following on from this Senior Blockchain Engineer at Steemit Inc 
2. Steem Power-up Day #6 another success
SPUD founder 
Leading the board was UK steemian 
Steem Power-up Day (SPUD) now takes place on the first of each month to encourage more people to power up STEEM.
3. Splinterlands Beta packs almost gone
4. Bring in Fitbit users to win
Actifit has announced FitOctober, a 'Bring in Fitbit Users' contest with 1,000 STEEM & 20,000 AFIT in rewards...
The Steem fitness app has also ended its partnership with 
5. Canonical links and content ownership
A recent change by Steemit Inc has meant that the 'canonical links' on a post will always show steemit.com as the 'master copy' regardless of whether it was published through any other front end or tribe site. This will have a negative impact in the Google search rankings for the originating site if it wasn't steemit.com....
Since
6. Nitrous update
Developer 
7. Steem.Supply update
Witness developer 
8. SteemKnights patch released
New 3D mobile multiplayer game SteemKnights has released an update v0.9.1...
9. Btcmyk Music Player rewards artists with tokens
10. Steem Munich meetup - 9 October
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & 
@arcange ]
(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)
| Steem price | US$ 0.139 | 03 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 0.658 | 03 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #76 (+2) | 03 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
| FCAS Score | 814 (+3) / A / #15 | 03 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
| No. of Whales | 39 (n/c) | 28 Sep '19 |
| No. of Orcas | 356 (+1) | 28 Sep '19 |
| No. of Dolphins | 2155 (+2) | 28 Sep '19 |
| No. of Minnows | 9251 (+2) | 28 Sep '19 |
| Alexa rank (steemit.com) | #8,366 (-100) | 02 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 149,311 / day | 03 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 385,224 / day | 03 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
| Alexa rank (steempeak.com) | #67,233 (+535) | 03 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
| Unique visitors (steempeak.com) | 14,931 / day | 03 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
| Page views (steempeak.com) | 73,163 / day | 03 Oct '19 01:08am UTC |
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