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Steemit Inc looks back on a successful month. STEEM is added to the CIX100 cryptocurrency index, Splinterlands is in a healthy state, and SteemFest 4 goes to the Post Office. And there is news and discussion about SteemPeak, TypeEarn, SPUD 007, SteemLeo, SteemChurch Nigeria, Steem Meetups around the world... --- ---

1. Steemit Inc Monthly Retrospective

Steemit Inc have posted their latest monthly retrospective. Good progress on SMTs and Hivemind Communities have been the main highlights of the past four weeks...

Steemit Retro: SMTs, Communities, PISFs, Canonical URLs

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2. STEEM in CIX100 cryptocurrency index

@deathcross has spotted that STEEM has been included in the [CIX100 cryptocurrency index](https://cix100.com/) as one its top 100 cryptocurrencies. Although STEEM is only placed at #45 in the index with a weighting of 0.02% being in such an index is good visibility for STEEM. Currently the index shows STEEM as a strong buy...

Good News: Steem Is Member Of A Cryptocurrency Index

Nasdaq Lists an AI-Powered Index of Crypto Market’s Top 100 Performers

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3. State of the Splinterlands

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@steemmonsters co-founder @aggroed has posted a video update on the state of Splinterlands. He reports on a range of positive, healthy metrics for the game including an All Time High of 3,006 players in a single day...

State of the Splinterlands

Splinterlands is also now giving a set of printed Alpha cards for anyone pledging $1000 on the [Untamed Kickstarter campaign](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/526764488/splinterlands-untamed-a-blockchain-trading-card-game)...

Kickstarter Printed Alpha Cards!

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4. SteemFest 4 updates

SteemFest organiser @roelandp reports on another late venue change. The second day of the conference will now take place at the Grand Postal Building Theatre in Bangkok. Roundtable sessions are also back on the agenda. If anyone is interested in running one [apply now](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScktOLLrd7F1VA04AV5g9nqtLl40lCAK-wvZw7HnXCfsL1w3A/viewform)...

SteemFest⁴ updates: Mai pen rai continues :) New venue Conference Day 2 + RoundTable sessions are back!

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5. Curating SteemPeak related content

@steempeak are going to start curating content related to SteemPeak including feature reviews, video tutorials and 'how to's'. Use the tag #peakreview for relevant content...

Curating SteemPeak related content #peakreview

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6. TypeEarn updates

New typing skills app [TypeEarn](https://typeearn.com/) has made some changes to the minimum withdrawal level to help stabilise the value of its TPC token...

Typeearn Update: New Changes And Daily News

@BuildTeam has posted a review of TypeEarn as a promising new app on the platform...

BuildTeam Spotlight: TypeEarn

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7. SPUD 007 coming to a screen near you

Organiser @streetstyle has posted about the upcoming Steem Power Up Day - SPUD#7 - on 1 November. More sponsors are welcome...

SPUD 007 - STEEM Royale - Coming Soon November 1, 2019

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8. SteemLeo burns almost a million

Investment focused tribe @SteemLeo has posted another 'burn report' showing that it has now burnt almost 1 million LEO tokens, representing over 18% of the total supply...

Steemleo BURN Report #4 - Approaching 1 MILLION LEO Burned!

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9. SteemChurch Nigeria meetup

The Enugu States Chapter of SteemChurch Nigeria reports on a successful first meetup, which included discussion of how to best utilise the new office that has been offered to them. SteemChurch Nigeria is part of @steemchurch originally set up by @sirknight, and which has now expanded across both the Steem and Telos blockchains...

SteemChurch Meetup went successful

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10. Calendar of Steem Meetups & Events

@pennsif has posted the latest calendar of Steem Meetups and Events. Still to come this month are meetups in Australia, Austria, the Philippines and the USA. Next month, as a follow up to SteemFest 4, @travelfeed are hosting three meetups in Bangkok and Chiang Mai...

Calendar of Steem Meetups & Events @ 18 October 2019

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & @arcange ]

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

Steem price	US$ 0.148	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC
SBD price	US$ 0.682	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#78 (+1)	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC
FCAS Score	803 (n/c) / A / #20	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC
No. of Whales	39 (n/c)	15 Oct '19
No. of Orcas	357 (n/c)	15 Oct '19
No. of Dolphins	2173 (+1)	15 Oct '19
No. of Minnows	9234 (-4)	15 Oct '19
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#9,829 (-555)	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	125,388 / day	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	326,008 / day	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC
Alexa rank (steempeak.com)	#57,334 (+1010)	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC
Unique visitors (steempeak.com)	16,967 / day	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC
Page views (steempeak.com)	95,016 / day	17 Oct '19 11.54am UTC

Follow @penguinpablo, @steem-data & @eforucom for more statistics. --- --- Visit the Steem Meetups & Events Calendar for a full list of meetups coming up...

Calendar of Steem Meetups & Events @ 18 October 2019

--- --- This is #206 (18 Oct '19) of this daily news service. Please let me know of any important posts or key data that should be included. Comment below or message me on Discord Pennsif#9921. --- --- ###### Burn Note - 5% of the post rewards will be burnt by setting a beneficary to @null. --- --- [ graphics by @pennsif ]