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Steem News is back from its winter break and packed full of great news from the Steem blockchain. There are updates on NFTs and Steem-Engine, Holybread, Splinterlands, BEERpong, CTP and Fire Pay, Actifit, Natural Medicine and Promo-Steem. A new Diary Dates section has been added as well as regular update features on the Steem Foundation and the Steem Proposal System... --- ---

1. NFTs coming to Steem-Engine

NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are imminently arriving on Steem-Engine. NFTs will open up a whole new ranges of use cases for Steem-Engine. NFTs can represent anything that needs to be kept track of with its own ID...

NFTs going live!

Node updated and Contract Being Deployed. Front end time!

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2. New game Holybread launches on 27 January

A new RPG style browsergame is currently being developed for Steem by @thebluewin, @auminda and @xyrijan...

Holybread | new RPG style browsergame on Steem

Only 17 hours left on our first round of hero auctions!

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What will the world be like in 2030?

Check out the **#FutureDiary 2030** series from @pennsif to find out where we might be heading...

FutureDiary : 12 January 2030 - Custard Tarts, Golf Guides & World Collapse

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3. Splinterlands Public API changes

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@splinterlands have published their policy for the use of their public API by third party developers ...

Splinterlands Public API Policy & Upcoming Change

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4. BEERpong is coming to Steem

@beerlover has announced that it is developing a Steem version of the BeerPong game. A first draft, single player version of the game is scheduled for release in February...

BEERpong is on it's way to bring more fun

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5. CTP announces Fire Pay integration

ClickTrackProfit, the affiliate marketing Steem tribe run by @jongolson, is now offering a Fire Pay payment integration service. The service has already been added to a number of partner sites including CupOfTraffic.com, TrafficInsider and SiteXplosion. This new development means you can now pay for advertising products and services using the CTP token...

The CTP Update - Fire Pay Is Here!

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6. Actifit launches new AFIT Burn Initiative

@Actifit has started an initiative to burn 10 STEEM worth of AFIT tokens every day to help the token price...

Actifit Weekly: New AFIT Burn Initiative! New Competition Coming Soon!Gadgets, AFIT & STEEM Stats. Witness Status. & Our Daily Updates

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7. Natural Medicine Delegations

@naturalmedicine have now enabled delegations of the LOTUS token...

Delegations Enabled for Natural Medicine Tribe

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8. Current Promo-Steem Initiatives

@theycallmedan is currently running five initiatives to help promote Steem - How Has Steem Impacted Your Life, Proof of Purchase, World Unrest Awareness, Quora Onboarding and YangGang Steem & Twitter Awareness...

Current Active Steem Initiatives to Earn Upvotes

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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, @aggroed, @alexvan, @guiltyparties and @snook...

Meeting Minutes: 8 January 2020

Their next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 15 January. --- ---

Steem Proposal System update

The Steem Proposal System (SPS) today has a daily funding budget available of approximately 2245 SBD. Currently four proposals by @yabapmatt (Steem Keychain), @thecryptodrive (Power Down reduction), @howo (SMT testing) and @anyx (API infrastructure) are being funded for a total of 296 SBD per day... * https://joticajulian.github.io/steemexplorer/#/proposals One new proposal, by @mykos, has been submitted to the SPS in the last 7 days...

Steem - First Refer A Friend Program

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Dates for your Diary...

Tuesday 14 January, 6pm UTC - 'Curation Corner' with @roadscape

Hosts @shadowspub and @artemisnorth have special guest @roadscape from Steemit Inc on their show to talk about Communities...

Busy Week in The Ramble Discord

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Wednesday 15 January, 6pm UTC - Witness Chat

@shadowspub is hosting another monthly Witness Chat in The Ramble discord...

Busy Week in The Ramble Discord

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Wednesday 15 January - Philadelphia Meetup

Organised by @andrarchy, with @yabapmatt and @aggroed of Splinterlands...

Philadelphia Meetup Next Wednesday the 15th

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Thursday 16 January, 10pm UTC - 'Discomfort Zone'

Eco-Village co-founder @orlev is launching his new podcast show on MSP Waves...

A new podcast on MSP Waves

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Saturday 1 February - SPUD#10

The tenth monthly Steem Power Up Day organised by @streetstyle is coming up...

SPUD 9 & 2020 Begin the New Decade - Happy New Year!

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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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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & @arcange ]

(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)

Steem price	US$ 0.130	13 Jan '20 9.13pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 0.600	13 Jan '20 9.13pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#78 (+9)	13 Jan '20 9.13pm UTC
FCAS Score	724 (-73) / B / #41	13 Jan '20 9.13pm UTC
No. of Whales	36 (-3)	12 Jan '20
No. of Orcas	374 (+17)	12 Jan '20
No. of Dolphins	2196 (+7)	12 Jan '20
No. of Minnows	9301 (+6)	12 Jan '20
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#14,275 (+875)	13 Jan '20 9.08pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	231,349 / day	13 Jan '20 9.08pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	555,237 / day	13 Jan '20 9.08pm UTC

Follow @penguinpablo, @steem-data & @eforucom for more statistics. --- --- This is #232 (13 Jan '20) of this daily news service - the last edition #231 was on 21 November 2019. --- --- [ graphics by @pennsif & @splinterlands ]