My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 17

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;

SCREENSHOT

How Did The Week Go ?

It was a wonderfully average week ! I managed to do a couple more posts than most weeks recently, and I am hoping that if I can keep it up I'll be able to rapidly get my post rate back on target; it's currently 3% too low, but 4 or 5 posts a week will fix that.

The price of HIVE seems to have stabilised for now. It's edging down in Sterling and up in Dollars, which tells me that any variation is down to external currency exchange rate changes. Meanwhile, the Hive Debt has edged down slightly over the last couple of weeks.

I'm seeing HBD interest reported as either 12% or 14% depending on where it is. Although I'm sad to see the rate go down, I think it's part of what we need in order to build the capital value of Hive back up.

But we still need to do a lot more to fix governance issues to prevent people pulling huge amounts of value out in exchange for low levels of development work without a business plan which shows how Hive will benefit from the project in financial terms. It's a shame a few people do this, when others come up with fabulous projects on their own bat and paid only by the upvotes they get on the posts telling us about it.

It seems realisation has set in among the bigger players that Hive isn't a cow that can be milked forever beyond it's ability to grow. That's good, and I expect to see lots more healthy debates about how to get it back on track ! Hive has such huge potential, and if we all work together to bring in new users, encourage and keep the ones we have, and promote projects with external use I think we have a great future.

Don't forget - it's HPUD on Friday ! I plan to power up a chunk of my liquid HIVE. Gotta keep building the stash ! 😁