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The Steemit Crypto Academy is expanding and recruiting. PLAY STEEM and SteemField are both progressing well. Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Community Charities, Steem in Business, World of Basketball Community, Power Up News, EndingPlagiarism, some useful guides and how-to's, and many more contests... --- ---

1. Steemit Crypto Academy Expanding & Recruiting

Steemit has announced a major expansion of the Steemit Crypto Academy. When the Academy resumes for Season 3 in a couple of weeks there will be three levels of courses - Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced. The Beginners level is designed to provide a follow on from the Newcomers Achievement Tasks. As a result of this expansion more Crypto Professors are being recruited. Details of how to apply are in this post... * [**Steemit Crypto Academy Weekly Update 17 [ June 7th, 2021 ] - Recruiting More Professors**](https://steemit.com/hive-108451/@steemitblog/steemit-crypto-academy-weekly-update-17-june-7th-2021-recruiting-more-professors) --- ---

2. PLAY STEEM Updates

Developer @etainclub continues to post regular updates on his PLAY STEEM mobile app including these on Community Subscriptions and Wallet History... * [**[PLAY STEEM x WebApp] Displaying Community Subscriptions**](https://steemit.com/hive-192037/@etainclub/play-steem-x-webapp-displaying-community-subscriptions) * [**[PLAY STEEM x WebApp] Displaying Wallet History**](https://steemit.com/hive-192037/@etainclub/play-steem-x-webapp-displaying-wallet-history) @etainclub has also given out some interesting usage statistics. PLAY STEEM now has around 100 active users each day. The majority of users are from South Korea, Venezuela and Pakistan... * [**[PLAY STEEM] App Stats**](https://steemit.com/hive-192037/@etainclub/play-steem-app-stats) --- ---

3. SteemField Updates

The @steemfield development team are also putting out daily update posts in English and Korean. Recent updates have covered Communities, Bookmarks and Posting... * [**[EN] "SteemField" Steemit Website development. - Communities Updates**](https://steemit.com/steemfield/@steemfield/en-steemfield-steemit-website-development-communities-updates) * [**[EN] "SteemField" Steemit Website development. - Bookmarks Update**](https://steemit.com/steemfield/@steemfield/en-steemfield-steemit-website-development-bookmarks-update) * [**[EN] "SteemField" Steemit Website development. - Posting Preview Update**](https://steemit.com/steemfield/@steemfield/en-steemfield-steemit-website-development-posting-preview) --- ---

4. Community Charities

An increasing number of Communities are now setting up their own charities. For example @steemitfoods through @sf-charity... * [**SteemFoods Food Donation #2 | Food Donation Starts for Three Families from the African Region**](https://steemit.com/hive-148497/@steemitfoods/steemfoods-food-donation-2-or-food-donation-starts-for-three-families-from-the-african-region) And Steem Bangladesh through @bd-charity... * [**Sharing Future Plans Of bd-charity | We Need Your Co-Operation**](https://steemit.com/hive-138339/@bd-charity/sharing-future-plans-of-bd-charity-or-we-need-your-co-operation) * [**Food For Street People || bd-charity Weekly Report 01 || 04/06/2021**](https://steemit.com/hive-138339/@bd-charity/food-for-street-people-or-or-bd-charity-weekly-report-01-or-or-04-06-2021) --- --- **The @adollaraday charity fundraising project is keen to partner with communities.** **If any communities are interested in forming a partnership please contact @pennsif on Discord (Pennsif#9921).** --- ---

5. Steem in Business

More and more businesses are choosing to accept payment in STEEM or SBDs. Recent additions to this Steem Business family include the @baristaacademy in Venezuela... * [**Presentation of Barista Academy in Steemit - We now accept payments in Steem and SBD**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@baristaacademy/presentation-of-barista-academy-in-steemit-we-now-accept-payments-in-steem-and-sbd) In Ghana @collinz has brought Rhoddys Fabrics on board... * [**Update on Steem To Shops Promo: Rhoddys Fabrics Joins Steemit, Ready to Accept And Use Steem For Business Transactions**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@collinz/updates-on-steem-to-shops-rhoddys-fabrics-joins-steemit-ready-to-accept-and-use-steem-for-business-transactions) And @alhajibabajnr has introduced the Campus Barber at University of Development Studies in Ghana-Navrongo to the world of Steem... * [**STEEM PROMO THROUGH BUSINESS : HURREY STEEMIANS IN GHANA (NAVRONGO ) CAN NOW PAY CAMPUS BARBER WITH STEEM NOW**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@alhajibabajnr/steem-promo-through-business-hurrey-steemians-in-ghana-navrongo-can-now-pay-campus-barber-with-steem-now) --- ---

6. World of Basketball Community

For anyone interested in basketball Philippines Country Rep @julstamban and @dwin0603 have set up the World of Basketball community... * [**WORLD OF BASKETBALL [WOB] | COMMUNITY INTRODUCTION POST!**](https://steemit.com/hive-188407/@julstamban/world-of-basketball-wob-or-community-introduction-post) * [**Introduction of World Of Basketball Community Account!**](https://steemit.com/hive-188407/@wob.steem/introduction-of-world-of-basketball-community-account) --- ---

7. Power Up News

@irawandedy has published another edition of the 'Steem Investing and Power Up News'... * [**STEEM INVESTING AND POWER UP NEWS - 1 Investing & 32 Power Up Accounts**](https://steemit.com/hive-103393/@irawandedy/steem-investing-and-power-up-news-1-investing-and-32-power-up-accounts) --- ---

8. EndingPlagiarism Update

@endingplagiarism is taking a new route. It is now swapping to a system based solely on delegations from the community to build up its power to combat plagiarists on the platform. Delegation rewards are being offered. It is now also supporting @adollaraday and @xpilar's charity... * [**Earn Rewards with a Delegation to endingplagiarism and Join our Curation Trail**](https://steemit.com/hive-108572/@endingplagiarism/earn-rewards-with-a-delegation-to-endingplagiarism-and-join-our-curation-trail) --- ---

9. Guides & How To's

Venezuela Country Rep @saracampero has published a great guide on 'How to get started in Steemit if I had to do it again'... * [**Estrategia ¿Como empezar en STEEMIT? Si tuviera que hacerlo nuevamente (Guía)**](https://steemit.com/hive-193637/@saracampero/estrategia-como-empezar-en-steemit-si-tuviera-que-hacerlo-nuevamente-guia) --- Steem Infinity Zone founder @cryptokraze has produced a useful tutorial on how to set beneficiary rewards... * [**Steemit Education Series | How to Set Beneficiary Rewards**](https://steemit.com/hive-181430/@cryptokraze/steemit-education-series-or-how-to-set-beneficiary-rewards) --- Argentina Country Rep @belenguerra has posted information on how to use images in your posts... * [**[ENG - ESP] Use images in your posts and tutorial on how to do it // Utiliza imágenes en tus posts y tutorial de cómo hacerlo**](https://steemit.com/hive-119812/@belenguerra/eng-esp-use-images-in-your-posts-and-tutorial-on-how-to-do-it-utiliza-imagenes-en-tus-posts-y-tutorial-de-como-hacerlo) --- ---

10. 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 3 days @ 7 June 2021 - $250 to be won**](https://steemit.com/winwithsteem/@pennsif/win-with-steem-contests-closing-in-the-next-3-days-7-june-2021-usd250-to-be-won) --- @habercitr and @masumrbd have both produced compilations of current contests on Steem... * [**Active Competitions//Steemit Activity Club Community // (26.05.2021)**](https://steemit.com/hive-189521/@habercitr/active-competitions-steemit-activity-club-community-habercitr-26-05-2021) * [**Compilation of Ongoing Contests on Steemit - 7 June 2021**](https://steemit.com/hive-138339/@masumrbd/compilation-of-ongoing-contests-on-steemit-07-june-2021) --- ---

KEY DATA [ from CoinMarketCap ]

STEEM price	US$ 0.50	8 Jun '21 0.35am UTC
STEEM price	0.00001501 BTC	8 Jun '21 0.35am UTC
CoinMarketCap Ranking	#165	8 Jun '21 0.35am UTC
SBD price	US$ 7.83	8 Jun '21 0.35am UTC
Alexa rank (steemit.com)	#14,565	8 Jun '21 0.35am UTC
Unique visitors (steemit.com)	236,636 / day	8 Jun '21 0.35am UTC
Page views (steemit.com)	993,873 / day	8 Jun '21 0.35am UTC

--- --- This is #366 (7 Jun '21) of this daily news service. --- --- [ graphics & images by @pennsif ] --- [ This post has set a 25% beneficiary to @adollaraday ]