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Steemit is inviting applications for Community Curators for February. The Steemit Engagement Challenge is now in Week 2 of Season 7. Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Power Ups & STEEM Burns, the Steemit DIP, SteemPro, Steem Watcher Portal, AVLE, Nigeria Training Centre, Channel F, and Contests on Steem... --- ---

1. Community Curators for February

Steemit is inviting applications from anyone who would like to become a Community Curator for February. Applications are invited from individuals rather than teams, and again there will be no specific themes for the individual teams. Team Millionaire, for contests, and Team Newcomer, for newcomers, will both be continuing. The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, on Wednesday 25 January 2023... * [**Steemit Update [ January 16th, 2022 ] : Community Curators for February - Applications Open**](https://steemit.com/steemitcommunitycurators/@steemitblog/steemit-update-january-16th-2022-community-curators-for-february-applications-open) --- ---

2. Engagement Challenge - Season 7 Week 2

The Steemit Engagement Challenge has now moved on to week 2 of Season 7. The second week of Season 7 has contests about role models, celebrity crushes, reviews, using waste to create new items, a special lunch with a Steemian, special activities in 2023, and your top crypto moments of 2022... * [**Steemit Update [ January 16th, 2023 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 7 - Week 2**](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steemit-update-january-16th-2023-steemit-engagement-challenge-season-7-week-2) --- --- ### _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 has now reached #20. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.** --- ---

3. Power Ups Edge Up

The latest stats from @remlaps this week have revealed a small increase in the amount of STEEM that is powered up. The past week has seen a 392K SP (0.24%) increase to 167,445,086 STEEM powered up, equivalent to a value of $30,479,191... * [**Steem Total Value Powered Up - $30 million - January 15, 2023**](https://steemit.com/metrics/@remlaps-lite/steem-total-value-powered-up-usd30-million-january-15-2023) --- @remlaps 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. In the past week there have been 660 _burnsteem25_ posts. The total burnt since June has now reached 110K SP, 75K STEEM, and 909 SBD... * [**Burned tokens, rewards, and inflation summary January 25, 2023: 110K SP, 75K STEEM, and 909K SBD burned in 35K burnsteem25 posts**](https://steemit.com/blockchain-metrics/@remlaps-lite/burned-tokens-rewards-and-inflation-summary-january-25-2023-110k-sp-75k-steem-and-909k-sbd-burned-in-35k-burnsteem25-posts) --- ---

4. Steemit DIP Update

Top 20 witness @dev.supporters reports that they have now received the first quarterly payment ($2500 / 11816 STEEM) as one of the five Community Developer Representatives (CDRs) overseeing the [Steemit Development Incentive Program](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steemit-update-sep-30th-2022-steemit-development-incentive-program-proposals-welcome). @dev.supporters have donated 5000 STEEM from their CDR fee to support the [Steem Meetup in Busan on 4 February](https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@support-kr/in-2-4-4-30).... * [**[DEV.SUPPORT] Sponsorship for Busan meetup event expenses (5,000 STEEM support)**](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@dev.supporters/dev-support-5-000-steem) --- ---

5. Developer Updates

Developer @faisalamin has posted updates on his progress adding a post scheduling facility to SteemPro... * [**Schedule Post with SteemPro tools**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@faisalamin/schedule-post-with-steempro-tools) * [**Post-schedule working in SteemPro Tools**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@faisalamin/post-schedule-working-in-steempro-tools) --- @bountyking5 has given updates on the development of the Steem Watcher Portal... * [**Steem Watcher Portal Update -- Add The Datatable Library Features -- 16/01/2022**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@bountyking5/steem-watcher-portal-update-add-the-datatable-library-features-16-01-2022) * [**Steem Watcher Portal is live now -- Development on OTP Protocol -- 05/01/2022**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@bountyking5/steem-watcher-portal-is-live-now-development-on-otp-protocol-05-01-2022) --- @moh.arif has been working on a multi wallet STEEM / SBD transfer script... * [**create multi wallet steem/sbd transfer script**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@moh.arif/create-multi-wallet-steem-sbd-transfer-script) --- ---

6. AVLE Update

Witness developer @etainclub has fixed a critical bug, and made a number of other improvements on his AVLE app... * [**[AVLE/1.1.0] Update - Critical bug fix**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@etainclub/avle110-update-critical-bug-fix) The latest version of the AVLE app (v 1.1.0) is available at... * https://avle.io/ * [**AVLE Update Contents (V1.1.0)**](https://steemit.com/hive-138689/@etainclub/avle-v110) --- ---

7. Nigeria Plans

@simonnwigwe has big plans for promoting Steem in Nasarawa State, Nigeria including establishing a training centre... * [**My Plans for Steem Promotion here in Nasarawa State Nigeria**](https://steemit.com/hive-150122/@simonnwigwe/my-plans-for-steem-promotion-here-in-nasarawa-state-nigeria) --- @simonnwigwe will be organising one of the Steem Meetups across Nigeria on 11 February... * [**Hurryyyyyy, It's Time For Meetup By Regions, Join Us On 11th February, 2023 (1st Announcement)**](https://steemit.com/hive-147599/@ngoenyi/hurryyyyyy-it-s-time-for-meetup-by-regions-join-us-1st-announcement) --- ---

8. New Moderators for Channel F

Channel F, the new fashion, food and fun community founded by @juichi, has recruited two new Moderators - @waterjoe from Indonesia and @yousafharoonkhan from Pakistan... * [**Channel "F" Community Welcomes Our New Moderators from Indonesia and Pakistan**](https://steemit.com/hive-165008/@hive-165008/channel-f-community-welcomes-our-new-moderators-from-indonesia-and-pakistan) --- ---

9. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem. There are 76 contests in the latest list with over 650 STEEM in prizes... * [**Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 18th Jan 2023 - Win 650+ STEEM**](https://steemit.com/contestalerts/@disconnect/contest-alerts-active-contest-list-on-18th-jan-2023-win-650-steem) --- ---

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.19	19 Jan '23 3.27am UTC
STEEM price	0.00000898 BTC	19 Jan '23 3.27am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#265	19 Jan '23 3.27am UTC
SBD price	US$ 2.41	19 Jan '23 3.27am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	143,333 / day	19 Jan '23 3.27am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	273,765 / day	19 Jan '23 3.27am UTC

--- --- This is #484 (18 Jan '23) of this daily news service. --- --- [ graphics by @pennsif ]