The Steem News @ 14 September 2024 : Learning with Steem...

The Teaching Teams have got off to a great start.

TipTag and PUSS.Coin are both expanding the Steem ecosystem.

Today's Steem News also includes news about H4LAB, @the-gorilla's steemit modernisation, a Showcase Interview, Developer Updates, Meetups, Talking Points & Recommended Reads, and Contests...

1. Learning with the Teaching Teams

The new look Engagement Challenge with the all the Teaching Teams has got off to a great start.

Week 1 of Season 20 comes to an end on Sunday but there is still time to enter any of the 16 courses and challenges on offer.

The Teaching Teams cover a wide range of subjects including cooking, crochet, business, programming, graphic design, fitness, hematology, pattern making, creative writing, spreadsheets…

Steemit Update [ September 4th, 2024 ] : Steemit Engagement Challenge Season 20

This unique new learning platform on Steem is definitely worth telling the world about.

Some of the Teaching Team leaders like @ngoenyi have been promoting the courses to their followers on other social media...

Video Promotion of Season 20 Engagement Challenge 2.0: Week #1 In Progress

2. TipTag

@iguazi123 and the @nutbox team have launched TipTag.

TipTag is a social layer based on the Steem blockchain, that works across EVM Blink and Twitter/X.

With it you can make every tag on Twitter a TagCoin. If you create a TagCoin on tiptag.social and post on Steem to share it your post will be upvoted by @wherein...

TipTag —— Make every Tag on twitter, a TagCoin. Social Layer based on Steem Blockchain

A full Operation Guide is available on GitBook...

https://coincidence.gitbook.io/coincidence/v/tiptag/operation-guide/create-tag-space-deploy-usdtagcoin

3. PUSS.Coin

The Amar Bangla Blog Community and founder @rme have continued the roll-out and development of their TRC-20 meme coin - $PUSS.

A dedicated PussFi community has been opened and a website launched...

Find out more about PUSS at...

https://puss.meme/

4. Find the H4LAB Easter Egg

@h4lab are running a special celebration event for the Korean Chuseok festival.

A prize pool of 100 STEEM plus sizeable votes from @h4lab are up for grabs.

To enter you must search the H4lab.com website to find the H4LAB Easter Egg...

[H4LAB] 2024 Chuseok Celebration Event (H4lab Chuseok Celebration Event)

5. DAO Watch : The-Gorilla

@the-gorilla continues to post updates on his DAO funded protect to modernise steemit.com.

He has been doing a lot of bug fixing...

Proposal-86: Communities Update & Bug Fixing

6. Showcase Interview

@ubongudofot continues with his Showcase interviews, this time talking with Bangladeshi blogger @nusuranur.

@nusuranur is an admin in the Steem Alliance community as well as the promotional team member of the @bangla.witness...

The Interview Showcase 113 : Exclusive Talk with a Bangladeshi blogger

Pennsif the Witness

After almost 2000 days on Steem I decided it was time to take my contribution to the platform to the next level.

I have therefore set up as a Steem witness... @pennsif.witness

If anyone would like to support what I already do, and what I am planning to do, by giving one of their 30 witness votes to @pennsif.witness I would be hugely grateful.

You can read my full witness announcement here...

pennsif.witness Witness Campaign Post

@pennsif.witness is now at #18. Thank you to everyone who has voted to help get to this position.

7. Developer Updates

Top witness @justyy has been very busy this past week open sourcing his Steem Load Balancer, integrating Steem Keychain in Rent SP, and integrating the Tronlink Wallet in the TRON-to-STEEM swap tool...

@etainclub is continuing work on his Steem payment system, SoodalPay, including adding a new QR scanner...

Witness developer @faisalamin has been making some further updates to SteemPro particularly to do with keys and with scheduling...

Login key restrictions and Schedule fixes - SteemPro

@remlaps has been further enhancing his Steem Conversation Accelerator browser extension open source...

Programming Diary 25: Enhancing the SCA tool and exploring ecosystem challenges

8. Meetup Calendar

After a flurry of meetups in Bangladesh and Indonesia there are still three major events coming up in South Korea, Venezuela and Nigeria...

5 & 6 October - South Korea

[Schedule and Registration Notice, Sponsorship Request] Summer STEEMFEST Korea 2024

2 November - Venezuela

30 November - Nigeria

If anyone knows of any other Meetups being planned anywhere in the world please post in the Comments.

9. Talking Points & Recommended Reads

@philhughes discusses the five things that separate Steemit from other social media sites.

Do you agree...

Five Things That Separate Steemit From Other Social Media Sites

@remlaps gives a full run down on the best time to place your votes.

Not before 5 minutes, and not after 6.5 days...

As a rule of thumb, the optimal voting time is before 5 minutes

10. Contest Corner

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

There are 125 contests in the latest list with over 500 STEEM in prizes...

Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 14th September 2024

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.17	14 Sep '24 11.20pm UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#387	14 Sep '24 11.20pm UTC
SBD price	US$ 2.43	14 Sep '24 11.20pm UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	130,635 / day	14 Sep '24 11.20pm UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	199,844 / day	14 Sep '24 11.20pm UTC