The Steem News @ 8 February 2020

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Travelfeed speeds up with new release.

Also in this edition there is news and updates about CoinFestUK in Manchester, Holybread switching to a new token, testing the SMT Hardfork, new lists for Steempeak, and The Alliance Bank.

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

1. Travelfeed On Speed

travelfeed@travelfeed has put out a major update focusing on speed improvements for the site. The ability to post to Steem Communities has also been introduced...

2. CoinFestUK in Manchester

Long time Steem advocate stephenkendal@stephenkendal is going to be at CoinfestUK in April promoting Steem...

Are any other UK Steemians going to coinfestuk@coinfestuk, 3 - 5 April, in Manchester...

If you would like to Tell the World about Steem and win rewards, check out this new contest...

The first winner is gadrian@gadrian who has been set as a beneficiary of this post.

3. Holybread switches to new Breadcrumbs Token

Due to the abuse of a glitch in the previous token system holybread@holybread has had to switch to a new HBC token to replace the previous HBBC token. Holders of HBBC tokens on Steem Engine received an airdrop of the new token HBC.

To help compensate for the inconvenience holybread@holybread has added an extra 500 STEEM to the prize pool...

4. Testing the SMT Hardfork

Developer howo@howo who is currently receiving funding from the SPS for testing the SMT hardfork, has published details of how to set up your own testnet to test the hardfork...

5. New Lists for Steempeak

Co-creator of steempeak@steempeak, jarvie@jarvie is inviting comment and suggestions for new lists and new list functionality...

6. The Alliance Bank fully operational

The Alliance Bank run by thealliance@thealliance is now fully operational. The Bank was set up to provides for events such as The Block Party, but it also provides loans, savings, investments and donations...

Steem Proposal System update

The Steem Proposal System (SPS) today has a daily funding budget available of approximately 2488 SBD.

There are now 8 proposals receiving funding from the SPS - yabapmatt@yabapmatt (Steem Keychain), netuoso@netuoso (Vessel Desktop Wallet), thecryptodrive@thecryptodrive (Power Down reduction), anyx@anyx (API infrastructure), thecryptodrive@thecryptodrive again (SBD Potato Top Up), steemonboarding@steemonboarding (Steem Onboarding), thecryptodrive@thecryptodrive again (anti - Power Down reduction) and howo@howo (SMT testing).

These successful proposals are currently receiving a total of 797 SBD per day from the SPS...

Both of the Power Down reduction proposals are now in the 'funding zone' - one for the reduction of the Power Down period to 4 weeks, and the other against. thecryptodrive@thecryptodrive submitted both proposals to provide some indication of community support for and against the reduction proposal...

anomadsoul@anomadsoul has given a progress update on the steemonboarding@steemonboarding project that has recently begun receiving funding from the SPS...

Steem Foundation update

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

Their next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 12 February 2020.

The Steem Foundation is asking all Steem DApp and App owners if they would like to be a part of its new website....

Community Watch

galenkp@galenkp is working hard in putting the building bricks in place and laying a solid foundation for the new Lego Community...

Top 20 witness themarkymark@themarkymark is seeking feedback on what people think of the Communities beta...

gadrian@gadrian is also encouraging Steemians to give feedback, both on the steemit beta version and on steempeak@steempeak's beta version...

Contest of the Day

Behind The Photo Contest

Share and document the story behind a photo you have taken. STEEM, SPACO and PHOTO to be won. Organised by nelyp@nelyp...

For a list of all the current contests on Steem check out this new list from pennsif@pennsif...

If you know of any current contests missing from the list leave a comment for pennsif@pennsif or message him on Discord @Pennsif#9921.

Dates for your Diary...

For a full list of Steem Meetups and Events...

Sunday 9 February - Steem Witness Forum

Hosted by aggroed@aggroed on MSP Waves. Guests include Steemit Inc MD elipowell@elipowell plus a number of top witnesses...

Tuesday 11 February - The Steeming Pile, Vimm.TV

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

The recording of the last edition of 'The Steeming Pile' is now available...

Wednesday 12 February - Steem Philippines Weekly Meetup

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

Wednesday 12 February - Monthly Witness Chat

Hosted by shadowspub@shadowspub on The Ramble Discord Server, 1pm EST / 6pm UTC...

Thursday 13 February - Steem Munich Meetup

Organised by@steem-munich, chris4210@chris4210, peter2017@peter2017 & @backinblackdevilat. To be held at Paulaner Bräuhaus, München...

Friday 14 February - Finally Friday On The Blockchain

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

Thursday 27 February - Adelaide Monthly Steem Meetup

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

Saturday 25 April - SteemCampUK #3

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

Friday 15 - Sunday 17 May - DTube Forum 2020

Organised by hauptmann@hauptmann, artakush@artakush, greencross@greencross, sergiomendes@sergiomendes and tibfox@tibfox in Hamburg, Germany...

Saturday 20 June - Steem Canna Fest 2

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

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

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

bluefinstudios@bluefinstudios is also organising a Steem Summit at The BLOCK Party...

Friday 26 June - Sunday 28 June - JAHMFest2020, Jamaica

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

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & arcange@arcange ]

Steem price US$ 0.199 08 Feb '20 9.43pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking #78 08 Feb '20 9.43pm UTC
FCAS Score 748 / B 08 Feb '20 9.43pm UTC
SBD price US$ 0.948 08 Feb '20 9.43pm UTC
No. of Whales 37 07 Feb '20
No. of Orcas 368 07 Feb '20
No. of Dolphins 2216 07 Feb '20
No. of Minnows 9290 07 Feb '20
Alexa rank (steemit.com) #14,747 08 Feb '20 9.43pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com) 222,276 / day 08 Feb '20 9.43pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com) 511,235 / day 08 Feb '20 9.43pm UTC

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

This is #252 (08 Feb '20) of this daily news service.

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