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There are more new courses at the Steemit Crypto Academy. Steem.Amal is expanding with six new Board Members. Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about SPUD4STEEM, new businesses on Steem, Steem SEA, Comunidad Latina, the Community Steem Power List, and more contests... --- ---

1. Crypto Academy Season 3, Week 5

The Steemit Crypto Academy is back with another round of courses for Week 5 of Season 3. This week's courses are from @lenonmc21 and @wahyunahrul for Beginners, from @allbert, @imagen and @yousafharoonkhan for the Intermediate level, and from @kouba01 and @sapwood for the Advanced students... * [**The Steemit Crypto Academy Weekly Update [ July 26th, 2021 ] : New Courses**](https://steemit.com/hive-108451/@steemitblog/the-steemit-crypto-academy-weekly-update-july-26th-2021-new-courses) --- In the Crypto Academy students only get a vote if their homework posts receive a grade of at least 5 out of 10. The SteemAlive community is organising an 'Open Happiness' scheme to encourage students who have done well in the Academy to share some of their rewards with those who have missed out on votes. Successful Academy students @meymeyshops, @fredquantum and @focusnow have so far donated 65 STEEM to the project... * [**Crypto Academy Open Happiness: Supporting genuine students of the Academy who didnt get 5**](https://steemit.com/hive-167622/@steemalive/crypto-academy-open-happiness-supporting-genuine-students-of-the-academy-who-didnt-get-5) --- ---

2. Steem.Amal New Board Members

To help with their growing number of programs Steem.Amal have recruited six more people as board members. @herimukti, @ikhsan01 and @muhd.abrar will be helping @nazarul in the Pidie Jaya region, @steemitcountry will be the first board member for the East Aceh region and @cicisaja will be Steem.Amal's first representative for the Jakarta area... * [**STEEM.AMAL OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: New Board Member Structure**](https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@el-nailul/steem-amal-official-announcement-new-board-member-structure) --- @sofian88 reports on a meeting of the Steem.Amal North Aceh team. The meeting discussed the final measures needed to finish the first house build project which is now 95% complete... * [**Steam.amal Board Member Evaluation Meeting of North Aceh Region for Housing Projects**](https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@sofian88/steam-amal-board-member-evaluation-meeting-of-north-aceh-region-for-housing-projects) --- ---

3. SPUD4STEEM - 1 August

Organiser @kiwiscanfly has posted a reminder that the next SPUD4STEEM power up event is coming up on 1 August. Thanks to the generosity of the event sponsors the prize pool has now increased to over 25K SP... * [**T Minus 4 Days till August SPUD4STEEM**](https://steemit.com/spud4steem/@kiwiscanfly/t-minus-4-days-till-august-spud4steem) --- ---

4. Steem for Business

New businesses continue to come on board to accept payments in STEEM / SBD. @aril.hatake reports that he now accepts STEEM payments at his Serba Karya Steel welding workshop in North Aceh... * [**Welding Workshop "SERBA KARYA STEEL" accepts payment with STEEM and SBD | My welding workshop "SERBA KARYA STEEL" accepts payments with STEEM and SBD**](https://steemit.com/hive-120861/@aril.hatake/bengkel-las-serba-karya-steel-menerima-semua-tempahan-besi-pembayar-boleh-mengunakan-steem-atau-sbd) @harferri posts more about the business... * [**MEET UP with Owner "Serba Karya Steel " Welding Workshop**](https://steemit.com/hive-120861/@harferri/meet-up-with-owner-serba-karya-steel-welding-workshop) --- Archery coach @akbar2468 is now taking STEEM payments in his Keude Panahan archery equipment and supplies shop... * [**KEUDE PANAH WAKCOY ARCHERY accepts payments with STEEM and SBD**](https://steemit.com/hive-120861/@akbar2468/keude-panahan-wakcoy-archery-menerima-pembayaran-dengan-steem-dan-sbd-or-or-accepts-payments-with-steem-and-sbd-or-or) --- Both these businesses are part of the Steem Entrepreneurs Community GO AROUND program... * [**GO AROUND - Steem Business Promo | Accept payments with SBD and STEEM for business products and services**](https://steemit.com/hive-120861/@steempreneurship/go-around-steem-business-promo-or-accept-payments-with-sbd-and-steem-for-business-products-and-services) --- ---

5. Steem SEA First Anniversary - 8 August

Community Leader @anroja has posted about plans for an event taking place on 8 August to celebrate the 1st anniversary of the Steem SEA community... * [**Menyambut Ulang Tahun Komunitas Steem SEA Ke-1 [Planning]**](https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@anroja/ulang-tahun-komunitas-steem-sea-ke-1-planning) --- ---

6. Comunidad Latina Meetup - 7 August

Comunidad Latina are holding their first meetup in Barquisimeto on 7 August... * [**Primera Meet Up COTINA | Ven Este 7 de Agosto a Barquisimeto e Interactúa con Nosotros**](https://steemit.com/hive-188619/@cotina/primera-meet-up-cotina-or-ven-este-7-de-agosto-a-barquisimeto-e-interactua-con-nosotros) --- ---

7. Community Steem Power List

Bangladesh Country Rep @toufiq777 has posted an updated list of most of the main communities and how much Steem Power their community accounts have... * [**List of total sp of curator account of all communities of steemit**](https://steemit.com/hive-138339/@toufiq777/3sx7c5-list-of-total-sp-of-curator-account-of-all-communities-of-steemit) --- ---

8. Contests

@belenguerra is asking whether you believe in Aliens in her latest contest in the Steem Geography community... * [**25 STEEM IN PRIZES!! New contest : DO YOU BELIEVE IN ALIENS? // 25 STEEM!! Nuevo concurso!! ¿CREES EN LOS EXTRATERRESTRES?**](https://steemit.com/hive-119812/@belenguerra/25-steem-in-prizes-new-contest-do-you-believe-in-aliens-25-steem-nuevo-concurso-crees-en-los-extraterrestres) --- In the Steem Education community @liasteem's contest is all about what your biggest challenge has been on Steemit... * [**Contest : What was your biggest challenge while on STEEMIT? | Prize Pool Up to 45 Steem**](https://steemit.com/hive-153970/@liasteem/contest-what-was-your-biggest-challenge-while-on-steemit-or-prize-pool-up-to-45-steem) --- To see more of the 100+ contests that are currently running on Steem check out the daily list from @disconnect... * [**Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 28th July 2021 – Win 2700+ STEEM**](https://steemit.com/contestalerts/@disconnect/contest-alerts-active-contest-list-on-28th-july-2021-win-2700-steem) --- ---

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.43	28 Jul '21 0.58am UTC
STEEM price	0.00001096 BTC	28 Jul '21 0.58am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#172	28 Jul '21 0.58am UTC
SBD price	US$ 6.61	28 Jul '21 0.58am UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#6,112	28 Jul '21 0.58am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	468,343 / day	28 Jul '21 0.58am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	2,107,543 / day	28 Jul '21 0.58am UTC

--- --- This is #380 (27 Jul '21) of this daily news service. --- --- [ graphics & images by @pennsif ]