The Steem News @ 9 October 2022 : The Best of the Month...

Community Witness @pennsif has launched a monthly contest to find the Best Community, the Best Steemian and the Best Post.

There is a prize pool of 10,000 SP delegation and 500 TRX for the winners.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Power Ups, Burning STEEM, AVLE, Steem Seven, World Smile Project, WoX Charity Auction, Nigeria City Coordinators, and Contests on Steem...

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1. Best of the Month

As part of his mission as a Community Witness to improve quality on the platform @pennsif has launched a monthly contest to reward the Best Community, the Best Steemian and the Best Post.

The initial prize fund is 10,000 SP in delegation and 500 TRX...

• PENNSIF'S PICKS : Best Community, Best Steemian & Best Post of the Month [October 2022]

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2. Power Ups Still on the Up

The latest stats from @remlaps this week have revealed another small increase in the amount of STEEM that is powered up.

The past week has seen a 158K SP (0.1%) increase to 164,295,011 STEEM powered up, equivalent to a value of $37,793,110...

• Steem Total Value Powered Up - $38 million - October 9, 2022

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3. Burning STEEM

@remlaps also continues to track the impact of Steemit's burnsteem25 campaign encouraging people to set a 25% beneficiary to @null to reduce the amount of STEEM, which potentially will increase its value.

The total burnt since June has now exceeded 121K SP...

• Burned tokens, rewards, and inflation summary October 8, 2022 - Total burn estimates: 121,925K STEEM/SP and 61 SBD

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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 Witness Campaign Post

Thank you.

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4. AVLE Updates

Witness developer @etainclub continues to post regular updates about his AVLE app...

• [AVLE] Introduce AVLE and updates (0.8.2)

The latest version of the AVLE app (v 0.8.2) is available at...

• https://avle.io/

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5. Steem Seven

The Steem Seven project run by @alejos7ven has been revamped and revived with a new community, a dedicated website and a significant delegation of 20K SP from @rme.

The curation project particularly targets 'unsupported content' with rewards of less than $2...

• Announcing Steem Seven project [ENG-ESP]

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6. World Smile Project Updates

@irawandedy has posted an updated 4th Quarter Roadmap and Review for World Smile Project for 2022.

The project is currently focusing on its activities in Indonesia, Nigeria, Venezuela and South Africa...

• Road Map World Smile Project Int 2022

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@klen.civil has posted a progress update on the Free Education Center that World Smile is funding in East Aceh.

The Center is now almost finished with over 90% of the construction work completed...

• Official Report WSP : Contruction Progress of Free Education Center East Aceh 90% [October 04, 2022]

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In Nigeria project leader @ubongudofot reports that the @smilenigeria solar project is now just 340 STEEM away from its funding target...

• WSP FINANCIAL REPORT - Account Income Progress, 340 STEEM Needed to complete payment [10th October,2022]

• Now we are 80% in Fund raising for steem solar, can we make it to the target?

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7. WoX Charity Auction

The World of Xpilar's @wox-helpfund has launched a charity auction to raise funds for its charity work.

A unique surrealist painting by @romanie is being auctioned as an NFT...

• Charity Auction No. 1

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The World of Xpilar has also just recruited London-based @petface as an additional Moderator for their community...

• We are expanding our team in WOX and welcome petface as a moderator in our community

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8. Nigeria City Coordinators

The Steem4Nigeria Community, led by @ngoenyi and @fredquantum, is continuing with its program of recruiting City Coordinators across the country.

City Coordinators appointed so far include @barnsbarnabie (Rivers State), @starrchris (Anambra State). @manuelhooks (Uyo, Akwa Ibom), @solexybaba (Zaria, Kaduna State), @jueco (Ogun State), and @josepha (Ebonyi State)...

• Announcement: Applications Invited for City Coordinators under Steem4Nigeria

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9. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.

There are 82 contests in the latest list with over 500 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 09th Oct 2022 – Win 500+ STEEM

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.23	10 Oct '22 1.22am UTC
STEEM price	0.00001169 BTC	10 Oct '22 1.22am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#251	10 Oct '22 1.22am UTC
SBD price	US$ 2.52	10 Oct '22 1.22am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	133,966 / day	10 Oct '22 1.22am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	276,790 / day	10 Oct '22 1.22am UTC

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This is #459 (09 Oct '22) of this daily news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]