The Steem News @ 22 January 2022 - The Community Curators are back...

Steemit is bringing back the Community Curators.

SPUD4STEEM is coming in just over a week.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about a new Steem interface and other dev work from @coding-gorilla, @remlaps & @starlord28, Anti Cheat Cheetah, AVLE, World Smile Project, Steem Magazines, and Contests on Steem...

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1. The Community Curators are Back

Steemit has announced the return of the Community Curators

The @steemcurator04-08 accounts are being moved to new teams of community curators, and each account is having its Steem Power doubled to 500,000 SP.

Members of the community are invited to form teams to cover one of the 5 curator themes - Arts, Finance, Business & Crypto, Lifestyle, Science, Technology & Computing and Life & Humanity.

Applications must be submitted by 11.59pm UTC, on Wednesday, January 26th, 2022...

• The Community Curators are Back…

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So far six teams have submitted applications...

• https://steemit.com/created/curatorteamapplication

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2. SPUD4STEEM coming soon

After a new year break, the SPUD4STEEM power up contest is back again on 1 February.

Organiser @kiwiscanfly has announced new sponsors coming on board to further boost the prize pool, with the winner now receiving a delegation of 13,000 SP...

• 13 days until SPUD4STEEM February

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3. New Steem Interface on its way

@coding-gorilla (aka @the-gorilla), with support from @steemchiller and others, is beginning to make progress with the development of a new Steem interface...

• 0000000000000110 - Steemit Interface PoC - Steem-JS & A Slight Distraction

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@remlaps is also continuing on his Steem development journey...

• Programming Diary 3: Connecting with git; individual account entry; beneficiary settings and more use of metadata

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@starlord28 has posted a roadmap for the development of his SteemPoll app...

• SteemPoll Roadmap

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4. Anti Cheat Cheetah roars into action

@papi.mati has teamed up with @symbionts, @alejos7ven and @alexmove to launch a downvoting curation trail to fight plagiarism and other abuse on the blockchain.

@the-gorilla is also helping with scripts to track down spam account farms.

The @ac-cheetah curation trail has now moved into the Mosquito Squishers community and currently has over 400,000 Steem Power...

• It's time to fight with plagiarism again

• The downvote curation trail has been launched

• Resurrecting Mosquito Squishers!

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@alexmove is continuing work on his uniqueness checking system...

• Development of automation for checking uniqueness in STEEMIT. Part 6. Setting to local checking 77 community

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5. AVLE Update

Developer @etainclub has posted further updates on the development of his AVLE app...

• [AVLE] Bookmarking a Post

• [AVLE] Following/Unfollowing 구현

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6. World Smile Project Update

@klen.civil has posted a progress report on World Smile's latest project building a Water System and Public Latrine in Aceh...

• WSP : Construction Progress Report from Water System and Public Latrine [January 22, 2022]

@miftahuddin has published a budget report for the project...

• WSP - Report on the use of funds for Water System and Public Latrine Activities

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7. Steem Magazines

@klen.civil has published the latest edition of the Steem Kindness Magazine...

• Steem Kindness Magazine : Third Edition in January 2022

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@klen.civil has also published the latest edition of the Steem Environment Magazine...

• Steem Environment Magazine - January 2022 : Second Edition [Actions to Protect Nature in a better direction]

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@epirela22 has posted the latest edition of the SteemSports Basketball Magazine...

• STEEMSPORTS BASKETBALL MAGAZINE - EL PLANETA DE LOS GIGANTES - EDICION 15

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8. Contests on Steem

@disconnect continues to publish his comprehensive daily list of current contests on Steem.

There are 113 contests in the latest list with 1,950 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 22nd Jan 2022 – Win 1950+ STEEM

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.30	23 Jan '22 00.21am UTC
STEEM price	0.00000845 BTC	23 Jan '22 00.21am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#329	23 Jan '22 00.21am UTC
SBD price	US$ 4.13	23 Jan '22 00.21am UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#3,302	23 Jan '22 00.21am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	971,195 / day	23 Jan '22 00.21am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	4,166,429 / day	23 Jan '22 00.21am UTC

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This is #435 (22 Jan '22) of this daily news service.

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[ graphics by @pennsif ]