My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 13

The #SaturdaySavers programme run with huge dedication and commitment by @shanibeer came to an end with the close of 2025.

But there are a couple of initiatives to keep the motivation going !

I've decided to post them in the BusyBees Community. This is a community set up to support @zakludick's tireless work in encouraging and teaching newer Hive users. Additionally, I'm adding the #SlothlySavers tag and linking my updates in their weekly update post, because that's another place where former #SaturdaySavers are gravitating to.

Image by Rebekka D from Pixabay

Here's a screenshot of last week's progress;

How Did The Week Go ?

Although I haven't posted as much as I'd like (dang those real world distractions !), actual earnings in HIVE and HP have been respectable. HP earnings were 70.069 and HIVE earnings (from all sources) were 52.315.

I've kept up with curation, and automating some of it has been a big help. I haven't automated all of the curation, however, mostly I've focused on automating Actifit posts, and for others that are automated I still make a point of actually reading them even if the actual voting is done by machine.

A big thing that happened was that one of my HBD stop-loss levels was passed, so Hivedex converted 200 HBD into 3333 HIVE.

The debt ratio is continuing to rise, so I expect that the next level will be passed at some point in the next week. At the current rate of growth, I expect an HBD haircut in around 2-3 weeks. One thing I have noticed is that Hivedex consistently shows the HBD price at around 4-7 cents higher than CoinGecko, so I'll need to factor that into my calculations. HBD isn't really holding a peg against the US dollar any more, but then the Dollar itself is hardly stable right now !

The slip in both HIVE and HBD prices aren't a big surprise, considering the geopolitical situation. It is clear to me that the US and Israel are vastly under-stating their losses (primarily in material, but also in manpower). Only this morning I saw a series of images of the E-3 AWACS and another KC-135 Iran claimed to have destroyed on the ground that the USAF hasn't admitted to. While there is a huge amount of AI-generated propaganda around, these images had the kind of consistency and included the kind of details that would be incredibly hard to create with AI. I'd give them an 80% chance of being for real.

I'm expecting that there will be another price shock when the US inevitably puts "boots on the ground" (I suspect more likely in Yemen than the Gulf). I don't expect them to admit mass casualties, but over time there will be a lot of American families being told their loved ones are in a war zone where they can't write letters or phone home. Sad, but that's the way it is.

But after that, I would hope prices will stabilise as American society gets used to a couple of hundred bodies a week going home and social media footage of FPV drone strikes on American troops become normalised, but the profits from the military-industrial complex start to boost markets and push stock and crypto prices back up (with numbers also artificially boosted by inflation).