The Steem News @ 19 May 2021 - SBDs Double in a Day

Among all the turmoil in the crypto markets, the price of SBDs has more than doubled in the past day.

To celebrate 10K subscribers World of Xpilar is giving away delegatations every day for a week.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about the Steem Assisted Village, another new Witness, the World Smile Project, Steem Bangladesh Community Charity, Bethlehem Church, Sell For Steem discounts, some useful guides and how-to's, and many more contests...

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1. SBD Rockets Up

The markets in general may be in turmoil with Bitcoin dropping as low as $30K today, but our very own Steem Backed Dollar has been a real green standout in an otherwise total sea of red.

The SBD price has been rocketing upwards pushing well over $15 at one point before settling down around $14.

STEEM meanwhile has dropped but not as badly as most of the rest of the crypto world. As a result it has climbed to #134 on CoinmarketCap.com with a price of $0.75 (0.00002018 BTC).

@acom and @whatsup are among several commentators...

• Bitcoin Is Crashing While Steem Rallies and SBD Is Rocketing - What The Actual F##k?!

• SBD - 100 percent up on Bittrex

• SBD Gone Wild While the Market Is in a Blood Bath

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2. World of Xpilar Daily Delegations

To celebrate reaching 10,000 subscribers in the World of Xpilar Community @xpilar is giving away a 3 week 500 SP delegation every day for a week...

• In the next 7 days you can win 500 Steem Power delegates for 3 weeks A new winner will be announced every day for the 7 days

• IT'S AMAZING, WE ARE NOW 10000 SUBSCRIBERS IN THE WORLD OF XPILAR COMMUNITY

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3. Steem Assisted Village

@sultan-aceh has given an update on the Steem Assisted Village project in Aceh.

Construction work has now begun of the Mushalla Al-Qariah in Buket Village with the toilet block well underway...

• Development Achievements 03 - Steemit Assisted Village and Build a Mushalla AL-Qariah in Aceh

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4. Another New Witness

New witnesses are becoming all the rage these days with three coming along in as many weeks.

This is week it is the debut of @unbiasedwriter...

• I am now a Steem Witness! :)

We look forward to hearing more about his plans as a witness...

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5. World Smile Project

@el-nailul has given an update on the humanitarian work he has been doing through his World Smile Project.

This week he has provided 55 SBD to support projects in Indonesia, the Philippines and Venezuela...

• World Smile Project Week #3 Report: Total 55 SBD has been distributed during the week

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6. Steem Bangladesh Community Charity

@bd-charity of the Steem Bangladesh Community has posted a report about its Eid Project charity work.

Led by @mahirabdullah, @abuahmad and @rifat3 in Dhaka, the project distributed food parcels to 25 families in need...

• Eid Project Update | Shared Happiness With 25 Families | bd-charity Report

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7. Bethlehem Church Joins Steem

Long time Steemian @cmp2020 has brought his local church, Bethlehem Church in Thornton, Pennsylvania, on to Steem.

@bebethlehem was established over 150 years ago and is now looking to break new ground by bringing its ministry on to the blockchain...

• Hello! We are Bethlehem Church in Thornton, Pa!

Anyone know of any other 'bricks and mortar' churches, temples, mosques or other places of worship that have their own accounts on Steem? This could be an interesting area of growth...

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8. Sweet Discounts in the Honey Store

@huzaifanaveed1, who is making good sales of his honey in @haidermehdi's Sell For Steem community, is now offering a special 2 STEEM discount across the whole range for Steem customers...

• Online Honey Seller | FLAT DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE| Celebrating 4 orders in this community|post 26

Another trader in the same community, @janemorane, is currently offering discounts on some handbags...

• Online Ladies Store | Ladies Hand Bag | Exclusive Discount Price | Post 11 - By janemorane

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9. Guides & How To's

@diegosnz has produced a tutorial on how to set beneficiaries on your posts...

• [Tutorial] Como administrar los beneficiarios en nuestros post

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@eugelys has posted details of how to delegate Steem Power using Steemworld.org. In this particular case to the @danceandmusic community run by @donatello...

• Iniciativa + Tutorial ¿Cómo delegar? - Delegando a danceandmusic - 250SP

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@eh-shohag has published a compilation of very useful tutorial and guides on a variety of topics including geo-location, delegation, powering up and @sapwood's Project Affable...

• Compilation Of Tutorial Tasks || That Will Help in Formation of a Post Or Learn in Details

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10. Contests, Contests, Contests...

As an offshoot of Steem News @pennsif now publishes a daily listing of the 'soon to close' contests on Steem...

• WIN WITH STEEM : Contests closing in the next two days @ 20 May 2021 - $370 to be won

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@masumrbd has produced a compilation of current contests on Steem...

• Compilation of Ongoing Contests on Steemit - 17 May 2021 - 5% of this post will go to BD Charity

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.73	20 May '21 1.24am UTC
STEEM price	0.00001989 BTC	20 May '21 1.24am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#134	20 May '21 1.24am UTC
SBD price	US$ 14.27	20 May '21 1.24am UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#17,338	20 May '21 1.24am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	216,917 / day	20 May '21 1.24am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	867,667 / day	20 May '21 1.24am UTC

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This is #358 (19 May '21) of this daily news service.

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