https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmNcwZfwRp236uT3GDZeUoSWc7VFxHStUAaqUGfkT779or/steem-news-454x278.png

Steemit is inviting applications for Community Curators for March. Applications for Season 8 of the Steemit Engagement Challenge close tomorrow, Monday 20 February. Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Steem One, STEEM Burns, SteemPro, Steem Watcher Portal, SteemCryptic, AVLE & AVLEOne, UPVU Earn, a Showcase Interview with @donekim, a Community Support Program, and Contests on Steem... --- ---

1. Community Curators for March

Steemit is inviting applications from anyone who would like to become a Community Curator for March. 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 22 February 2023... * [**Steemit Update [ February 15th, 2022 ] : Community Curators for March - Applications Open**](https://steemit.com/curators/@steemitblog/steemit-update-february-15th-2022-community-curators-for-march-applications-open) --- ---

2. Engagement Challenge Season 8 - Closing soon...

Steemit Inc is inviting communities to apply for Season 8 of the Engagement Challenge. The closing date for applications is 11:59 pm UTC, tomorrow Monday 20 February... * [**Steemit Update [ February 13th, 2023 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge - Applications Invited for Season 8**](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/steemit-update-february-13th-2023-steemit-engagement-challenge-applications-invited-for-season-8) --- --- ### _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 #17. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.** --- ---

3. Steem One

Steem investor and community leader @rme has announced a new tool, Steem One, that provides a summary of your Steem account data all on one page. Steem One shows... >Steem, SBD & Tron live price feed, upvote-downvote percentage, RCs, Steem SBD Tron balances, the most recent post-comment and transaction data and latest incoming-outgoing delegations all on a single page. ... * [**"Steem One" - A new tool for checking your Steemit account statistics on one page**](https://steemit.com/hive-129948/@rme/steem-one-a-new-tool-for-checking-your-steemit-account-statistics-on-one-page) Steem One is available at... * https://steem.one/ --- @rme is also inviting suggestions for what Steem needs to make it more popular, and to bring in more readers as well as creators... * [**Use of Twitter, YouTube, Telegram and Facebook to popularize Steemit**](https://steemit.com/hive-129948/@rme/vfdsi) --- ---

4. STEEM Burns

@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 were 2,302 SP in burned beneficiary rewards and there were 689 _burnsteem25_ posts. The total burnt since June has now reached 124K SP, 84K STEEM, and 909 SBD... * [**Burned tokens, rewards, and inflation summary February 18, 2023: 124K SP, 84K STEEM, and 909 SBD burned in 39K burnsteem25 posts**](https://steemit.com/blockchain-metrics/@remlaps-lite/burned-tokens-rewards-and-inflation-summary-february-18-2023-124k-sp-84k-steem-and-909-sbd-burned-in-39k-burnsteem25-posts) --- ---

5. Developer Updates

Developer @faisalamin has posted news about further developments on SteemPro including improvements to the editor and scheduling of posts... * [**SteemPro Updates Editor new features and fixes**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@faisalamin/steempro-updates-editor-new-features-and-fixes) --- @bountyking5 has added an emojis feature to the Steem Watcher Portal... * [**Abuse Watcher Portal development Update -- New Emoji Indicator feature for Reports Verification --18-Feb-2023**](https://steemit.com/hive-151113/@bountyking5/abuse-watcher-portal-development-update-new-emoji-indicator-feature-for-reports-verification-18-feb-2023) --- Witness developer @starlord28 has given an update on some hosting issues with his SteemCryptic tool site... * [**Update on Steemcryptic**](https://steemit.com/steemcyrptic/@starlord28/update-on-steemcryptic) --- ---

6. AVLE Update

Witness developer @etainclub has fixed a bug in the Account Suggestion Form on his AVLE app... * [**[AVLE/1.2.3] Bug fix - Account Suggestion Form**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@etainclub/avle123-bug-fix-account-suggestion-form) The latest version of the AVLE app (v 1.2.3) is available at... * https://avle.io/ --- @etainclub has also posted a number of updates for his new AVLEOne app, a Patreon like service for Steem... * [**[AVLEOne] Service Design**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@etainclub/avleone-service-design) * [**[AVLEOne] Project #1 User Type**](https://steemit.com/hive-138689/@etainclub/avleone-1) * [**[AVLEOne] Service planning #2 Ad-free revenue model**](https://steemit.com/hive-138689/@etainclub/avleone-2) --- ---

7. UPVU Earn

The UPVU team have launched UPVU Earn, an automated Dollar Cost Averaging investment service. The service is starting with an ETH investment service based on Arbitrum, a layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum. Options such as BTC, Stablecoin (USDT) and others will be added later... * [**An Auto-DCA service UPVU Earn has been launched!**](https://steemit.com/hive-102132/@upvu/an-auto-dca-service-upvu-earn-has-been-launched) --- UPVU team members @donekim and @realmankwon have written more about UPVU Earn... * [**[UPVU Earn] Summary of frequently asked questions (FAQs)**](https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@donekim/upvu-earn-faqs) * [**UPVU Earn이 출시되었습니다! (사용방법 안내)**](https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@donekim/upvu-earn-8ad6c7d704ee3) * [**[UPVU] UPVU Earn 출시 완료**](https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@realmankwon/realmankwon-posting-2023-02-16-22-19) --- ---

8. Interview with @donekim

@ubongudofot has done another Showcase interview this time with leading Korean blogger and witness @donekim... * [**The Interview Showcase 37 - Exclusive Talk with Crypto - analyst/ Korean Blogger**](https://steemit.com/hive-111300/@ubongudofot/the-interview-showcase-37-exclusive-talk-with-crypto-analyst-korean-blogger) --- @donekim has posted an appeal for other members of the Korean Steem community to volunteer to be on the Interview Showcase. @happycapital and @happyberrysboy are already lined up to be on future episodes... * [**We are looking for people to appear in the Global Community Interview Showcase!**](https://steemit.com/hive-101145/@donekim/7bfdbf68914d3) --- ---

9. Community Support Program

Witness and founder of the the Camping Club Steemit (CCS) community @visionaer3003 has launched a Community Support Program. @visionaer3003 will be selecting three communities to support each month with 500K+ SP votes... * [**Community Support Program - Applications Open**](https://steemit.com/hive-150122/@visionaer3003/community-support-program) --- ---

10. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem. There are 88 contests in the latest list with over 750 STEEM in prizes... * [**Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 19th Feb 2023 - Win 750+ STEEM**](https://steemit.com/hive-166405/@disconnect/contest-alerts-active-contest-list-on-19th-feb-2023-win-750-steem) --- ---

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.24	19 Feb '23 7.14pm UTC
STEEM price	0.00000961 BTC	19 Feb '23 7.14pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#281	19 Feb '23 7.14pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 3.10	19 Feb '23 7.14pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	147,053 / day	19 Feb '23 7.14pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	274,112 / day	19 Feb '23 7.14pm UTC

--- --- This is #491 (19 Feb '23) of this daily news service. --- --- [ graphics by @pennsif ]