Steem News-Bulletin #1

60+ awesome links! Hello fellow Steemians! Welcome to the first edition of Steem News-Bulletin! A lot is happening on Steemit.com and Steem News-Bulletin is here to get you up to date!

Note, if any of you would decide to read only one thing from this post, I'd recommend it to be the very last paragraph!

Introduction

This news bulletin is good for new users as well as for more advanced one. As usual if you haven't read my 3 parts Ultimate guide to Steemit, I recommend people to take a look at them. Don't worry if they don't fit your learning style, everyone is different and there's many more ways to learn about Steemit. ENJOY!

Oh but before going any further, here's a very inspiring take by @razvanelulmarin to create some sort of informal Steem pledge of alligiance. It's a very interesting post. Thank you @razvanelulmarin and I salute you my friend!

The Ultimate Guide

• The ultimate guide to Steemit (how to use Steemit)
• The ultimate guide to Steemit: The Prequel (what Steemit is)
• The ultimate guide to Steemit part 2 (how to use Steemit)

New Steemit Guides

• Beginner's Guide: Steemian’s Adventures in Wonderland. Part 1
• Beginner’s Guide. Part 2. Steemit: How the hell does it work?
• Simply Steemit: Your No-Nonsense Guide to Getting Started

Steemwhales

Steemwhales.com have been updated and the updates are awesome.

SteemWhales Update! Reputation and steem power withdrawal

Steemstats

Regarding updates to some very useful Steem tools, Steemstats.com have had an incredibly useful ones. I haven't fully taken advantage of this tool yet but I might begin to use it 24/7 as I'm writing this. Here's the link to the update and how to set it up to make the best out of it. Don't forget to let it synched. There's a little number on the right corner indicating when it's going to be synched. I'm currently using it and it's awesome.

• steemstats 0.3.0 - desktop notifications, estimated curation rewards, and lots more! — Steemit
• [Tutorial] Tired of waiting for the FOLLOW system to work properly? Well quit waiting and follow this guide!

catchawhale

It got updated and it has now become a lot more awesome!

[catchawhale.com] Steemit Tool that uses the power of activity analytics to potentially get you more upvotes from Whales!

Accepting Steem

• STEEMPAYMENTS beta LIVE! Start accepting STEEM on your website NOW! Opensource PHP friendly!

Dan Larimer's latest

Here are 4 post and 1 comments from Dan Larimer, Chief Techonology Officer of Steem.

• Steemit Releases Groundbreaking Account Recovery Solution
• Vilifying Bots
• Brief Update on Reputation Score
• Bitfinex, Blockchain Hacks, and Replay Attacks Oh My - All Things that Steem’s Technology is designed to prevent.
• Steem's ecosystem needs to take the lesson of Bitfinex to heart. Bittrex and Poloniex NEED cold wallets! (Dan's reply)

Some Feel Good Articles

• Life Really is All About Love
• Steem thought - SteemClean
• The excuses we troll ourselves (co-authored by@gavvet and @tcup)
• Why is @papa-pepper planting 1000 trees in 5 gallon buckets? ( This world definitely needs more people like @papa-pepper!)
• Hi. I am Mihai: artist, painter, illustrator and I'm bringing my talents to Steemit!
• We Steem Powered someone from the Streets to a Home (That story and that title is pure bliss!)

Steem Stats

• 8 interesting SEO facts about SteemIt.com (Second Edition!)
• MEGA statistics and analysis for TOP 50 most popular SteemIt introductions[introduceyourself]
• Why Steem crashed, what YOU should do, and where we are today. (This is a very postive article. Don't get fool by the title.)
• Monthly payouts leaderboards, July 2016
• The Evolution Of Reddit And Steemit
• STEEM Dilution Rate - MUCH higher than you might think… (Must read!)
• STEEMIT Statistics - WEEK 2

The Newest Steem Tools

• Power Down Wealth Checker - Compare your Steemit Wealth against the wolds average monthly disposable salaries.
• [SteemDown.com] - Which whales are powering down?
• [Steemit ↔ Steemd] - Quickly Switch Between Steemit.com and Steemd.com (Awesome!)
• [Steemit ↔ Steemd] - UPDATE: Fix for Mozilla Firefox!
• Steemanalytics.it - Vote distribution (What do the people on the richlist vote on?)
• [Introducing] Steem-O-Graph.com - Explore your followers, follower count and the Steemit Network Graph
• [Steemit Tool] The Posting reward tool! - Will your next post payout still be worth 100% ? (Awesome!)
• [steem.cool] Live Reputation (REP) Viewer w/ Estimated UpVote REP Value, REP Needed for Next Level, Level Information
• Steemdollar.com 💵 Calculating the worth of a single Upvote - What is your Upvote worth?
• [Steem.Community] A Slack alternative for team chat based on Mattermost

The Steem Goodies

• If you change your SteemDollar balance now, you will receive your interest
• [Bookmark This] A Grandma Proof Way of Cashing Out Your Hard Earned Steem Dollars In The Bank
• THE STEEM MARKETPLACE: SO MUCH MORE THAN A SOCIAL NETWOK
• Steemit Auto Language Detection & Translation - UI Design & Theory
• [Steem Mobile] Beta 0.0.4 with Android and iOS, New features, Voting, Login, View changes and a lot more... Come join us!!!
• [STEEM MEETUP] The steem meetup group is now live! Create and attend local steem events in your city!
• Digital currency Steem soars to more than $150 million in value in two weeks | Reuters
• Curator Wars! Who is the BEST curator on Steemit??.... Please step forward!
• Be part of a feature on Steem for VICE Motherboard
• Preaching the word of Steemit - First Crowdspeaking Campaign with Thunderclap [500 supporters needed to go live]
• I added 33,179 people to the #steemit campaign on thunderclap and I want you to do the same!
• Steemit needs you now more than ever! This campaign will reach 2 Million people, but your help is needed!
• Become a hero of reality show and go around the world with Steemit
• Now Live: The first Steem stream on Twitch - Swimming with the whales
• STEEMIT BUMPER STICKER CAMPAIGN? - @papa-pepper's prototype
• Exchange "Livecoin" Added Steem
• Steemit should become the social media juggernaut and bake all of their features in. (details inside)
• SteemitGO - The game where you look for SteemDollars with your cellphone - an idea!

The Funny

• Steem Life - Vol 10 - "Never Give Up!"
• Roger & Snorre - reddit gold
• 10 Ways Steemit.com is BETTER THAN SEX (NSFW)
• FINALLY! @papa-peppers Music Video for His 2013 SMASH HIT -"Poppa-Pepper Make it Rain" (some more @papa-pepper awesomeness)
• Fyrstikken after dark special show - Episode 1 - What do you want? The Finger or The Dollar?

I hope you guys will enjoyed reading those posts as much as I did!

On a finishing note, here's one of the most, if not the most profound thing I've ever heard. It's from Dan Larimer. Dan Larimer is Steem chief technology officer and founder of Bitshares. I feel like everyone would greatly benefit from reading or listening to this quote. I've reposted this quote in a couple of my posts already and a lot of people know about it because of this, but I feel like as long as wars or the potential for war exist, then this quote merits a bigger place in our minds and the same is true for Steem and how as a collective group we can use Steem to fulfill the vision its creator have in mind. Wow! Steem you're making me write things that make me feel so good! Thank you and as for you guys keep on Steeming!

Dan Larimer said one of the most inspiring thing I've ever heard