The Steem News @ 28 January 2020

Holy Bread launches on Steem.

There is also news and updates about Splinterlands, Weiss Crypto Ratings, Leoshop, Canna Fest 2 and Non Violent Communication.

And there are more additions to the Diary Dates section as well as regular updates on the Steem Foundation and the Steem Proposal System, another Featured Contest and the new Community Watch section...

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1. Holy Bread launches on Steem

Holy Bread, a new browser based RPG game has now launched on Steem. Over 6,500 people pre-registered in the 3 weeks before launch.

@auminda has provided a detailed guide on how to play the game...

• How to play Holybread

@thegoliath has posted more information and his first impressions of the game...

• Holy Bread - first day of release with a quality browser based game on Steem

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2. Splinterlands Reward System changes

To ensure ongoing sustainability @Splinterlands is introducing, on 4 February, some changes to the Reward System including Loot Chests...

• Reward System Changes

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3. Steem beats EOS in Weiss Crypto Ratings

@jrcornel reports that in the latest Weiss Crypto Ratings Steem is now ranked at #16, four places above EOS...

• Steem now rated higher than EOS!

• Weiss Crypto Ratings

In another set of ratings @jrcornel has spotted that Steem held on to its 6th position in the December release of the Global Pubic Blockchain Technology Assessment Index published by China's Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID), although its Total Index score did drop from 110.1 to 106.2...

• Steem ended the year as the 7th highest rated Blockchain according to China

• China Releases Year-End Crypto Rankings

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4. Steemleo launches Leoshop

@Steem.leo has launched Leoshop, a marketplace for digital products and services...

• Introducing Leoshop | Buy & Sell Digital Products With LEO, STEEM and SBD!

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5. Canna Fest 2 Travel Fund

The @Canna-Curate community has launched a Travel Fund to support people who want to go to the Canna Fest 2 event they are organising in Portland in June...

• Canna Fest 2 Travel Fund!

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6. NVC Workshop #2

@eco-alex of @ecotrain has launched the second of his workshops on Non Violent Communication...

• NVC Workshop #2: Identifying feelings when speaking and listening

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Steem Proposal System update

The Steem Proposal System (SPS) today has a daily funding budget available of approximately 2394 SBD.

There are now a record 7 proposals receiving funding from the SPS - @yabapmatt (Steem Keychain), @netuoso (Vessel Desktop Wallet), @thecryptodrive (Power Down reduction), @anyx (API infrastructure), @thecryptodrive again (SBD Potato Top Up), @steemonboarding (Steem Onboarding), and @howo (SMT testing).

These successful proposals are currently receiving a total of 796 SBD per day from the SPS...

• https://joticajulian.github.io/steemexplorer/#/proposals

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@abh12345 has compiled the figures for the funds disbursed so far by the Steem Proposal System. In total 41,000 SBD has been given out to a total of 9 accounts. The top recipient to date has been @howo who has received over 14,700 SBD for his testing of the SMT hard fork...

• Healthy January / @steem.dao

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Steem Foundation update

The Steem Alliance Community Foundation @steemalliance have released the minutes of their last meeting attended by @shadowspub, @phage93,@alexvan, @guiltyparties, @snook and @inthenow...

• Meeting Minutes: 15 January 2020

Their next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 29 January.

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Community Watch

@midlet has been given a behind the scenes tour by @jarvie and @asgarth of the new Communities features coming to Steempeak. There is also a little peek at the Discord integration that may be coming soon too...

• A Sneak Peak at Communities on Steempeak!

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If you have a Hive Community that you would like featured here message @Pennsif#9921 on Discord.

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You can keep an eye on new Hivemind Communities being launched in the Community Announce Community...

• https://beta.steemit.com/trending/hive-122359

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Contest of the Day

What's Cooking Redfish? Contest

Write a post about why you love Steem and share on Twitter. 1300+ SP delegation and Splinterlands prizes to be won. Organised by @sgt-dan...

• UPCOMING CONTEST: What's Cooking Redfish?

• CONTEST: What's Cooking Redfish?

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Dates for your Diary...

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Wednesday 29 January - Steem Philippines Weekly Meetup

Meetings every Wednesday in Davao City organised by @chrisrice and @steem-ph...

• The Community for the #Philippines

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Thursday 30 January - Adelaide Monthly Steem Meetup

Organised by @mattclarke, 6pm local time at The Jade Monkey, Flinders Street, Central Business District, Adelaide.

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Saturday 1 February - SPUD#10

The tenth monthly Steem Power Up Day organised by @streetstyle is coming up with over 16,000 SP delegation in prizes...

• T - Minus 6D 21Hrs 20Min Until SPUD X - POWER UP, PRIZES & LAUNCH

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Tuesday 4 February - The Steeming Pile, Vimm.TV

@johnspalding's live streamed open broadcast 'The Steeming Pile' is back, with new co-host @pennsif...

• The Steeming Pile is Back (next Tuesday)

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Friday 7 February - Steem Meetup Aachen #8

Organised by @detlev...

• The SteemMeetupAachen number 8 at the 7.th of February 2020

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Friday 14 February - Finally Friday On The Blockchain

First episode of Finally Friday - On The Blockchain with @coruscate and @cryptofinally live on @threespeak...

• Finally Friday on Steem w/@Coruscate

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Saturday 25 April - SteemCampUK #3

Organised by @shanibeer and @lloyddavis in Leicester...

• SteemCampUK - Saturday 25 April 2020...

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Saturday 20 June - Steem Canna Fest 2

Organised by @canna-curate in Portland, Oregon...

• Steem Canna Fest 2! June 20th, 2020. 5:30pm

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Tuesday 23 June - Sunday 28 June - The BLOCK Party, USA

The second annual BLOCK Party being organised by @enginewitty, @bluefinstudios and @dreemsteem. It has now been confirmed that the event will take place in Olcott, NY...

• Lookin' at the 'Books'💸 + Block Party News (The Castle is Secured!)

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Friday 26 June - Sunday 28 June - JAHMFest2020, Jamaica

Organised by @donald.porter and the @ReggaeSteem team...

• ReggaeSteem JAHMFEST Dates Confirmed, Set for June 26–28th 2020

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & @arcange ]

Steem price	US$ 0.163	28 Jan '20 10.53pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#77	28 Jan '20 10.53pm UTC
FCAS Score	733 / B	28 Jan '20 10.53pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 0.821	28 Jan '20 10.53pm UTC
No. of Whales	36	27 Jan '20
No. of Orcas	370	27 Jan '20
No. of Dolphins	2214	27 Jan '20
No. of Minnows	9286	27 Jan '20
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#14,604	28 Jan '20 10.53pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	226,812 / day	28 Jan '20 10.53pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	544,350 / day	28 Jan '20 10.53pm UTC

Follow @penguinpablo & @steem-data for more statistics.

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This is #242 (28 Jan '20) of this daily news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif, @holybread, @splinterlands ]