The Steem News @ 3 September 2019

Steem News is back and catching up after the small break in service.

The Steem blockchain had a short intermission but is now back up and running.

The Delegation Trust has extended its deadline, the Curangel curation project has launched and Sonic Groove are starting a new weekly music contest.

And there is also news from DTube, Steem-Engine, SteemProposals.com, ClickTrackProfit, @theycallmedan and Tasteem.

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1. Steem back up and running

Due to a bug in the curations reward curve calculation system the Steem blockchain had to go offline on Sunday.

The bug was especially resistant to detection because the problem was not with the mathematics backing the curation reward curve, but subtleties in the integer based approximation of a square root. The bug was the result of a subtle behavior in the new curation rewards curve that lead to votes being able to have a curation reward weight of -1, which when stored in an unsigned field resulted in a computed value of 2^64 - 1.

When paid out, these votes were attempting to receive trillions in STEEM. This was caught by other assertions which instructed the blockchain to halt block production and prevent the unintended behavior from impacting any reward distribution.

Steem developers released a fix early on 2 September. Witnesses restarted block production just after 6am UTC on Monday. Steemit and the Steemit API services were restored after replays were completed by around midday on 3 September...

• Steemit.com and Nodes Operational

The downtime caught the attention of some of the crypto media like CoinTelegraph and CrytoVest...

• Steemit is now fully operational again after chain halted due to bug

• Steemit (STEEM) Network is Back After Bug Froze Nodes

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2. Delegation Renewal Application extension announced

Because of the recent Steem downtime the @delegationtrust has announced an extension of the deadline for submission of Delegation Renewal Applications to Friday...

• Delegation Renewal Application Extension: Friday Sept 6th 3pm Eastern (NYC) time

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3. Major new curation project launches

Top 30 witness @pharesim has announced a major new curation initiative @curangel

Curangel was born from the idea to provide an alternative to bid bots or vote automation for stakeholders which are not interested in curating themselves, but don't want to watch inflation eating up their stake either. We engage a motivated team of experienced curators to find undervalued deserving content, and share the received rewards 80/20 between delegators and curators...

• Announcing the Curangel Project - Curation Serving Everyone

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4. The Sonic Groove Live Music Contest

Following on from the demise of @luzcypher's long running OpenMic contest The Sonic Groove Tribe is launching a new music contest on the @sonicgroovelive account.

The judges for the weekly competition include @isaria, @krystle, @zipporah, @pechichemena and @joseacabrerav. The sponsors include @ausbitbank and @helpiecake.

Prizes include STEEM, Creative Coin, Sonic Groove and Tunes...

• Announcing: The Sonic Groove Live Music Contest!

Full details of how to enter are available...

• A guide on how to enter Sonic Groove Live and why we have these rules

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5. DTube reschedules DTC token sale

Due to the recent issues on the Steem blockchain @dtube is delaying Round #1 of the planned DTC token sale until at least 20 September...

• Steem Blockchain maintenance: DTC token sale update

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6. Nitrous adds Ads

Steem-Engine founder @aggroed has announced the arrival of ads for Nitrous, the front end available for tribes using SCOT and Steem Engine tokens.

A key feature of the ads is that 85% of the payment received for the ads is used to purchase and burn tribe tokens. Burning tokens helps to maintain token values...

• Nitrous Update : Ads

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7. SteemProposals.com proposal to the Steem Proposal System

Witness developer @dmitrydao who runs the SteemProposals.com portal has submitted a proposal to the Steem Proposal System to support further development of the portal...

• Steem Proposals proposal (reimbursement and upcoming features)

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8. ClickTrackProfit Token coming soon

The @clicktrackprofit project that is looking to work with affiliate marketeers has announced the coming of the CTP token...

• The CTP Update - Hardforks, Hunts & Huge News!

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9. NewSteem - the way forward

Steem investor @theycallmedan talks about how Steem post-HF21 is changing with #newsteem...

• New Steem - Let's Talk About It

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10. Do you eat out? Write about it on Tasteem

Steem's leading eating out review site Tasteem has published its 'theme' list for this week.

Each day there is a different eating out related topic to write reviews about. All quality posts can earn tasty upvotes from the @tasteem account...

• Weekly Contests Tasteem Global (Wednesday 04/09/2019 - Sunday 08/09/2019)

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KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap & @arcange ]

(change on previous day in brackets // n/c = no change)

Steem price	US$ 0.166	04 Sep '19 02:23am UTC
SBD price	US$ 0.808	04 Sep '19 02:23am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#81 (-2)	04 Sep '19 02:23am UTC
FCAS Score	807 (-1) / A / #19	04 Sep '19 02:23am UTC
No. of Whales	37 (n/c)	02 Sep '19
No. of Orcas	339 (+1)	02 Sep '19
No. of Dolphins	2110 (-1)	02 Sep '19
No. of Minnows	9276 (-21)	02 Sep '19
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#6,228 (-121)	04 Sep '19 02:23am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	213,787 / day	04 Sep '19 02:23am UTC

Follow @penguinpablo, @steem-data & @eforucom for more statistics.

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Visit the Steem Meetups & Events Calendar for a full list of meetups coming up...

• Calendar of Steem Meetups & Events @ 28 August 2019

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This is #167 (03 Sep '19) of this daily news service.

Please note - before the break in publishing the last edition of The Steem News was #153 which was published on 6 May 2019.

Please let me know of any important posts or key data that should be included. Comment below or message me on Discord Pennsif#9921

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