The Steem News @ 9 May 2021 - Steemit Crypto Academy New Courses & Speak for Steem Contest

The Steemit Crypto Academy is still going strong with another round of new courses just released.

The PromoSteem team have launched a month long Speak for Steem Contest with 300 STEEM to be won.

Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about PLAY STEEM, the Steem Assisted Village, Steem Library, World of Xpilar Masterclasses, the Minecraft Build the Earth Construction Hunt, some useful guides and how-to's, and many more contests...

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1. Steemit Crypto Academy - New Courses

The Steemit Crypto Academy is still going strong with many hundreds of Steemians taking part every week.

The Crypto Professors are back for week 13 with another set of diverse course topics including NFTs & Smart Contracts (@abcallen), Consensus Algorithms (@alphafx & @levycore), Cryptocurrency Markets (@imagen & @pelon53), Bandwidth and Energy on Tron (@sapwood & @fendit), decentralized and centralized social media (@yousafharoonkhan & @stream4u), and scalp trading (@yohan2on & @kouba01).

To discourage plagiarism and content farming the entry rules have been tightened. You now have to have a minimum reputation of 50, at least 100 SP in your wallet and not be powering down...

• Steemit Crypto Academy Weekly Update #13 [ May 10th, 2021 ]

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2. PromoSteem Speak for Steem Contest

The @promosteem.com team have launched a month long Speak for Steem promotional contest series with 300 STEEM to be won.

This contest is all about promoting Steem on other social media via video blogs.

For week #1 the target is Instagram...

• CONTEST - Speak For Steem On Instagram Week #1 - Prize 75 Steem [Total 300 Steem This Month]

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3. PLAY STEEM Updates

Developer @etainclub has continued to put out regular updates on the progress of his PLAY STEEM mobile app covering elements such as multiple image uploading and implementing swipe back...

• [PLAY STEEM] Uploading multiple images at once

• [PLAY STEEM] Implementing Swipe Back

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4. The Steem Assisted Village

@sultan-aceh has posted an update on his 'Steem Assisted Village' project in Aceh, Indonesia.

Work has started on building the Mushalla AL-Qariah...

• Development Achievements 01 - Steemit Assisted Village and Build a Mushalla AL-Qariah in Aceh

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5. Steem Library Open for Business

@event-horizon has launched Steem Library - a community for people who like to share books...

• https://steemit.com/trending/hive-186627

• My Vision for Steem Library and its Mechanism

To help publicize the community Steem Library is running a 'Favourite Book Genre' contest with 10 STEEM in prizes...

• Contest # 1 | Steem Library | Favorite Book Genre | Prize Pool : 10 Steem

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6. World of Xpilar Masterclasses

As part of the World of Xpilar Masterclass program coordinated by @bambuka, @nelsondoor is running a course on Drawing...

• [ESP / ENG] MASTERCLASS - Clase # 4 - Punto de Fuga || Class # 4 - Vanishing Point

There are also Masterclasses on Wood Carving from @erickyoussif...

• Master Class from @erickyoussif - BILL 1

And another one on Drawing from @kikenexum...

• Master Class from @kikenexum - BILL 6

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7. Minecraft Build the Earth Construction Hunt

@cmp2020 has continued his Build the Earth Construction Hunt Minecraft Contest.

Now in its fourth week interest is continuing to grow and the prize pot is now up to 85 STEEM...

• Build the Earth Construction Hunt #4 (85 Steem in Rewards)(5/8/2021 - 5/15/2021)

If you know any Minecraft players this could be a great way to get them interested in Steem.

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8. Guides & How To's

Nigeria Country Rep @whitestallion has produced a useful guide for Newcomers on how to get started on Steem...

• Getting Started on Steemit- A Complete Guide for Newcomers

@graceleon has posted a step-by-step guide on how to power up your STEEM...

• POWER UP ¿CÓMO HACERLO?- paso a paso del proceso para hacer crecer nuestro steem power

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9. 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 @ 10 May 2021 - $1220 to be won

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@habercitr who runs the Steemit Contest Club Community has produced a compilation of current contests on Steem...

• Active Competitions / Steemit Contest Club Community (06.05.2021)

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 1.17	10 May '21 4.55am UTC
STEEM price	0.00001971 BTC	10 May '21 4.55am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#149	10 May '21 4.55am UTC
SBD price	US$ 7.37	10 May '21 4.55am UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#19,688	10 May '21 4.55am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	197,197 / day	10 May '21 4.55am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	650,750 / day	10 May '21 4.55am UTC

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This is #350 (9 May '21) of this daily news service.

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[ graphics & images by @pennsif ]