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<strong>The Steemit Awards are back for a second year.</strong>

<strong>The December SPUD4STEEM winners have been announced.</strong>

<strong>Today's Steem News also includes news and updates about Booming Support for Communities, Active Communities on Steem, AVLE, World Smile Project Education Centre, Venezolanos Steem and Contests on Steem...</strong>

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<h2>1. Steemit Awards 2021</h2>

The Steemit Awards are back for a second year.

Steemit Inc has announced that there will be three categories for awards again - Best Author, Best Contributor to the Community and Best Community.

There are large votes from @steemcurator01 for the winners. The closing date for nominations is 19 December...

* [**The Steemit Awards 2021**](https://steemit.com/steemitawards2021/@steemitblog/the-steemit-awards-2021)

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<h2>2. SPUD4STEEM December Winners</h2>

Organiser @kiwiscanfly has announced the winners of the December SPUD4STEEM power up event.

Congratulations to @abdu.navi03 who took first place,  @bellana (2nd), @frankingcol (3rd), @long888 (4th), @ashkhan (5th), @zmoreno (6th), @strawberrry (7th), @fwinanda (8th), @alejoess (9th) and @mamamasha (10th)...

* [**December SPUD4STEEM 10 x CONFIRMED winners**](https://steemit.com/spud4steem/@kiwiscanfly/december-spud4steem-10-x-confirmed-winners)

* [**Meet our December Winners**](https://steemit.com/spud4steem/@kiwiscanfly/meet-our-december-winners)

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<h2>3. Booming Support for Communities</h2>

Although the full Communities of the Month Support Program is not running in December, Steemit have announced that @booming vote support will still be available for 44 selected communities...

* [**Booming Support for Communities - December**](https://steemit.com/steem/@steemitblog/booming-support-for-communities-december)

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<h2>4. Active Communities on Steem</h2>

@papi.mati has published another edition of his very useful list of Active Communities.

This month's list includes 85 active communities with 27 having increased their active members...

* [**List of active communities December 2021 (6th edition)**](https://steemit.com/hive-153176/@papi.mati/list-of-active-communities-december-2021-6th-edition)

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<h2>5. AVLE Update</h2>

Developer @etainclub continues to post regular updates on the progress of his new AVLE dApp...

* [**[AVLE] New Feature: Applying Photo Viewer**](https://steemit.com/hive-192037/@etainclub/avle-new-feature-applying-photo-viewer)

* [**[AVLE] Changing Body Font Size**](https://steemit.com/hive-185836/@etainclub/avle-changing-body-font-size)

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<h2>6. World Smile Project Education Centre</h2>

World Smile Project founder @el-nailul has published a completion report for the free education centre that the program built in Aceh.

The construction took one month to complete, and the total budget was IDR 47,707,000 (US$3,300)...

* [**World Smile Project Official Report: Indonesian Free Education Center Completion Report**](https://steemit.com/hive-153970/@el-nailul/world-smile-project-official-report-indonesian-free-education-center-completion-report)

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<h2>7. Venezolanos Steem New Moderators</h2>

Venezolanos Steem has appointed three new Moderators for their community -  @charjaim, @skinnygirl and @josertalaverag...

* [**Nuevos Moderadores en Venezolanos Steem**](https://steemit.com/hive-108800/@venezolanos/nuevos-moderadores-en-venezolanos-steem)

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<h2>8. Contests on Steem</h2>

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

There are 112 contests in the latest list with 2,400 STEEM in prizes...

* [**Contest Alerts: Active Contest List on 05th Nov 2021 – Win 2400+ STEEM | Club**](https://steemit.com/contestalerts/@disconnect/contest-alerts-active-contest-list-on-05th-nov-2021-win-2400-steem-or-club-7-5)

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<h4>KEY DATA  [ from <a href="https://coinmarketcap.com/">CoinMarketCap</a> ]</h4>

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<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">STEEM price</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">US$ 0.48</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">05 Dec '21  12.47pm UTC</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">STEEM price</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">0.00000966 BTC</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">05 Dec '21  12.47pm UTC</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">CoinMarketCap Ranking</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">#324</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">05 Dec '21  12.47pm UTC</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">SBD price</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">US$ 5.89</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">05 Dec '21  12.47pm UTC</td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Alexa rank (steemit.com)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">#3,246</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;"><a href="https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/steemit.com">05 Dec '21  12.47pm UTC</a></td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Unique visitors (steemit.com)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">902,176 / day</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;"><a href="https://hypestat.com/info/steemit.com">05 Dec '21  12.47pm UTC</a></td>
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<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">Page views (steemit.com)</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;">4,628,165 / day</td>
<td style="width: 33.3333%; height: 22px;"><a href="https://hypestat.com/info/steemit.com">05 Dec '21  12.47pm UTC</a></td>
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This is #430 (5 Dec '21) of this daily news service.

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