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Steemit Inc have announced the winners of the Steemit Awards 2024. New options are being looked at to help with SBD liquidity and market making. Today's Steem News also includes news about Steem Retrogames, SteemStats Discord Bot, a Facebook Promotion Campaign, Improving SEO, Steem For Ladies Community, and Contests... --- ---

1. The Steemit Awards 2024

Steemit Inc have announced the winners of the Steemit Awards 2024. For Best Teacher the winners were @anailuj1992 [Venezuela], @kouba01 [Tunisia] & @miftahulrizky [Indonesia]. For Best Learner the winners were @alexanderpeace [Nigeria], @blessedlife [Venezuela] & @mohammadfaisal [Pakistan]. For Best Contest Maker the winners were @jyoti-thelight [India], @philhughes [USA] & @vivigibelis [Venezuela]. For Best All Rounder the winners were @adeljose [Venezuela], @pandora2010 [Venezuela] & @the-gorilla [UK]. The winners will each receive a 100% vote from steemcurator01... * [**Steemit Update [January 16th, 2024] : The Steemit Awards 2024 - The Winners**](https://steemit.com/steemit/@steemitblog/steemit-update-january-16th-2024-the-steemit-awards-2024-the-winners) --- ---

2. SBD Market Making

Following on from the recent issue with the Upbit exchange withdrawing support for SBDs, the @roadofrich witness team have put forward a proposal for SBD Liquidity Provision and Market Making Bot Development. If the proposal gets a favourable reaction they plan to submit the proposal to the Steem DAO for funding support... * [**Proposal for SBD Liquidity Provision and Market Making (MM) Bot Development for the STEEM Ecosystem**](https://steemit.com/proposal/@roadofrich/proposal-for-sbd-liquidity-provision-and-market-making-mm-bot-development-for-the-steem-ecosystem) --- @boylikegirl.wit has also been looking at potential solutions... * [**STEEM Exchange SBD Market By Dapp Boylikegirl Club**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@boylikegirl.wit/rbsf8xdggpt) --- --- ### _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**_](https://steemit.com/witness/@pennsif.witness/pennsif-witness-witness-campaign-post) **@pennsif.witness is now at #17. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.** --- ---

3. Steem Retrogames Tutorial

The @Italygame and @Time.foundation witness teams have produced a tutorial for how to play their new Steem Retrogames... * [**STEEM-RETROGAMES - TUTORIAL: How to Play /Come Giocare**](https://steemit.com/hive-184714/@steem-retrogames/steem-retrogames-tutorial-how-to-play-come-giocare-eng-ita) --- ---

4. SteemStats Discord Bot

The @dhaka.witness team have posted details of the latest upgrades to the their SteemStats Discord Bot... * [**Discover the Latest Upgrades to the SteemStats Discord Bot!**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@dhaka.witness/discover-the-latest-upgrades-to-the-steemstats-discord-bot) --- ---

5. Facebook Promotion Campaign

@o1eh is continuing with his project to promote Steem on Facebook. Some small budget advertising has produced promising results... * [**Update on Steem's Facebook promotion campaign**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@steempromoution/update-on-steem-s-facebook-promotion-campaign) * [**Why should you start blogging on Steemit?**](https://steemit.com/blogging/@steempromoution/why-should-you-start-blogging-on-steemit) --- ---

6. Improving SEO

As part of his ongoing DAO funded project to improve steemit.com @the-gorilla has been looking at potential options to enhance the search engine optimisation of Steem posts... * [**Proposal-86 : SEO Improvements**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@the-gorilla/proposal-86-seo-improvements) --- ---

7. Steem For Ladies Community

The Steem For Ladies Community led by @liasteem have recently recruited two new Moderators to their team - @alexanderpeace from Nigeria and @tammanna from Bangladesh... * [**Welcome The New Team Of Steem For Ladies Community**](https://steemit.com/hive-168072/@steemladies/welcome-the-new-tim-of-steem-for-ladies-community) --- ---

8. Contest Corner

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem. There are 106 contests in the latest list with over 500 STEEM in prizes... * [**Contest Alerts : Active Contest List on 16th January 2025**](https://steemit.com/contestalerts/@disconnect/contest-alerts-active-contest-list-on-16th-january-2025) --- There is one more day left to enter @michelangelo3's competition to guess the price of STEEM at the end of January. There is 20 STEEM in the prize pool to be won... * [**Steem price at the end of January, prize pool 20 Steem**](https://steemit.com/deutsch/@michelangelo3/65znqz-steem-price-at-the-end-of-january-price-pool-20-steem) --- The Steemit Quiz 2025 run by @the-gorilla is now in its second week... * [**Steemit Quiz 2025 - Week 2**](https://steemit.com/hive-128129/@the-gorilla/steemit-quiz-2025-week-2) --- ---

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.26	16 Jan '25 11.42pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#421	16 Jan '25 11.42pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 6.49	16 Jan '25 11.42pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	86,791 / day	16 Jan '25 11.42pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	148,757 / day	16 Jan '25 11.42pm UTC

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