The Steem News @ 18 July 2021 - Steem is Building Houses...

Steem.Amal are making great progress on their first house building project in Aceh.

The Dolphins, Orcas and Whales are all growing.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Steem Block #55,555,555, the Xpilar Witness Node, Comunidad Latina, the Steemit-Türkiye Community Charity, EndingPlagiarism, and over 100 contests...

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1. Steem.Amal House Project

Program Manager @el-nailul reports on great progress on the Steem.Amal housing project in Aceh, Indonesia.

The first house being built for Mr Samsul and his family is now 90% complete...

• STEEM.AMAL OFFICIAL REPORT: 90% Housing Construction Progress of Steem.amal

@klen.civil has also given an update on the physical building side of the project...

• UPDATE PHYSICAL PROGRESS STEEM AMAL HOUSING PROJECT, 90% (JULY 18, 2021)

And @miftahuddin has posted about the finances of the project...

• Update the Financial Realization Report of the Steem.Amal Housing Project Phase VIII 90%

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2. Power Ups are Working !

Power ups are going strong and #welovepowerups is still a common sight.

This is definitely working as the latest stats from @steemchiller show. Minnows, Dolphins and Orcas are all increasing at a healthy rate...

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Category	SP	14 Jun '21	18 Jul '21	%
Redfish	under 500SP	1,544,425	1,555,029	+ 0.69%
Minnows	500SP - 4,999SP	5,994	6,126	+ 2.20%
Dolphins	5,000SP - 49,999SP	1,106	1,157	+ 4.61%
Orcas	50,000SP - 499,999SP	224	246	+ 9.82%
Whales	over 500,000SP	26	28	+ 7.69%

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Please also note that in the table above the Steem Power values for each 'sea creature category' are only approximate, as the 'raw data' supplied by @steemchiller is based on Vests not SP.

For example 'Minnows' refer to those people with 1,000,000 - 9,999,999 Vests, and 'Dolphins' refers to those with 10,000,000 - 99,999,999 Vests.

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3. Steem Blocks Pass 55,555,555

Top 20 witness @justyy reports that the Steem blockchain has just recently passed block number 55,555,555...

• Steem Blockchain Surpasses 55555555 blocks!

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4. Xpilar Witness Node

The @xpilar.witness team reports that it now has its own full node and is no longer dependent on any third party nodes.

The addition of this additional full node ( https://api.worldofxpilar.com/ ) helps increase the stability of the Steem blockchain...

• World of Xpilar has its own full node and runs blockchain version 0.23.1 We are no longer dependent on any third party nodes

@xpilar.witness is currently witness #33.

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5. Comunidad Latina hits two milestones

Comunidad Latina is celebrating two milestones of 5,000 subscribers and 10,000 Steem Power...

• 10,000 Steem Power alcanzados y 5,000 suscriptores en COTINA

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6. Steemit-Türkiye Community Charity

The Steemit-Türkiye community charity @tr-charity is raising funds to help children with SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) - a disease that is particularly common in Turkey.

Their first target is to help fund treatment for a baby by the name of Smali...

• Aid Campaign for SMA Patients// SMA Hastalarına Yardım Kampanyası //%100 ALİ ÜRÜN'E Destek

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@steemit-turkiye is also currently running a contest about promoting your profession with a prize pool of 50 STEEM...

• Steemit -Turkey Competition #4 Promote Your Profession | 10 Person 50 Steem Reward | 10%tr-charity

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7. EndingPlagiarism Update

Following the announcement that @endplagiarism is stepping back from frontline duty to focus on more complex cases, @endplagiarism04 has posted an update on how the team will be working going forward...

• Updating The System - New Strategy To Fight Against Plagiarism

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8. Contests

There is 50 STEEM up for grabs in Fantasy Football Scotland being run by @the-gorilla...

• 50 STEEM Prize Fund - 2021/22 Fantasy Football Scotland

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In the Steem Geography community @belenguerra has announced a Planet Positives contest with 25 STEEM to be won...

• 25 STEEM IN PRIZES! Contest Alert!! Better Life with Steemit contest! Planet Positives // 25 STEEM IN PRIZES! Alerta de concurso! Concurso Better Life con Steemit! Positivos para el Planeta

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@disconnect continues to post a comprehensive list of the 100+ contests currently running on Steem...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 19th July 2021 – Win 1950+ STEEM

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.36	18 Jul '21 11.32pm UTC
STEEM price	0.00001131 BTC	18 Jul '21 11.32pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#178	18 Jul '21 11.32pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 6.06	18 Jul '21 11.32pm UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#7,308	18 Jul '21 11.32pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	389,464 / day	18 Jul '21 11.32pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	1,635,750 / day	18 Jul '21 11.32pm UTC

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This is #374 (18 Jul '21) of this daily news service.

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