The Steem News @ 26 January 2025 : Steemit Learning Challenge - Season 23
Steemit Inc is inviting applications for Season 23 of the Steemit Learning Challenge.
The new Steemit ID Creation Service is now live.
Today's Steem News also includes news about Community Curators for February, EverSteem, STEEM VM, SteemFest Korea 2025, Steem Journal of Ophthalmology, and Contests...
1. Steemit Learning Challenge : Season 23
Steemit Inc is inviting applications for Season 23 of the Steemit Learning Challenge.
To help counter the growing use of AI to answer text based homework tasks, Steemit Learning Clubs are being introduced.
These Learning Clubs will be running alongside the usual Teaching Teams, and will cover practical areas such as cooking, DIY, gardening, knitting and repair.
The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Tuesday 4 February 2025...
2. Steemit ID Creation Service
As part of the PussFi project a new Steem account creation service has been set up.
This allows anyone to set up a Steem account for just a small PUSS fee.
The service also includes a referral program...
The Steemit-ID Creation Service is available at
Another recent addition to the PussFi ecosystem is Puss2Bux for converting PUSS to STEEM, TRX and USDT...
Pennsif the Witness
After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.
I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness
If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.
You can read my full witness announcement here...
@pennsif.witness is now at #17. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.
3. Community Curators for February
Steemit Inc is inviting applications for Community Curators for February.
Applications are invited from teams of up to three people.
For February there is a minimum SP requirement of 5000 SP for each team member.
There is also a new option this coming month for developers of games and apps to apply.
The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Monday 27 January 2025...
There are applications from 19 teams so far...
4. Developer Updates
Witness Developer @etainclub (#15) continues to develop his new EverSteem project...
He has also now done the first test posting from EverSteem...
@danmaruschak is exploring the possibility of submitting a DAO funding proposal to develop a Historial Wallet View...
@grebmot is wondering if any developers are interested in developing a facility for Downloadable Post Histories...
5. Witness Updates
Witness @roadofrich (#21) has put forward a proposal to develop STEEM VM - a STEEM Layer 2 Side Chain.
This would be similar in concept to the old Steem-Engine service that facilitated the creation of layer 2 tokens on Steem before the big split with Hive....
Witness @moecki (#30) has posted an update of his recent activities including working on the DAO Burn Script and debugging steemd...
@blockseater of the @stmpak.wit witness team (#16) has had a baby...
Congratulations @blockseater !
6. SteemFest Korea 2025
The @steemfestkorea team have posted further details of SteemFest Korea 2025 that will be held on 6 & 7 June on Jeju Island in South Korea...
7. Steem Journal of Ophthalmology
@indextrader24 is planning to launch the Steem Journal of Ophthalmology.
This would be the first scientific journal on the Steem blockchain...
8. Contest Corner
@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.
There are 110 contests in the latest list with over 500 STEEM in prizes...
The Steemit Quiz 2025 run by @the-gorilla is now entering its fourth week...
KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]
| STEEM price | US$ 0.24 | 26 Jan '25 10.48pm UTC |
| CoinMarketCap Ranking | #416 | 26 Jan '25 10.48pm UTC |
| SBD price | US$ 4.52 | 26 Jan '25 10.48pm UTC |
| Unique visitors (steemit.com) | 89,421 / day | 26 Jan '25 10.48pm UTC |
| Page views (steemit.com) | 153,265 / day | 26 Jan '25 10.48pm UTC |
This is #554 (26 Jan '25) of this news service.
[ graphics by @pennsif ]
Hi friend, here is the Spanish translation of this news edition:
Noticias de Steem @ 26 de enero de 2025: Desafío de aprendizaje de Steemit - Temporada 23
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Thank you for the Spanish translation of Steem News.
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it's a pleasure🙂
Many great news! Thank you for your hard work.
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Keep on developing !
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By the way, you did a good job from what I have read, we are moving to something better. We're improving everyday.
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Thank you.
Thanks for the Steem News update. Here is the Indonesian translation: