My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 19

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 ?

It was a strange week ! For me, I started off really well but then (as so often happens) real life and exhaustion overtook me and my posting had to take a back seat again. The goal isn't totally unattainable, but I think I need to push myself a little harder !

An interesting development is that the Hive Debt Ratio has taken a jump in a positive direction. This is mainly due to an increase in the price of Hive. Prior to last Tuesday it had been bumping along in a range of £0.043-£0.046 for a few weeks, having regained some relative stability.

Then on Tuesday we saw a massive and sudden spike up to £0.066. I'm pretty sure it was down to manipulation on the Korean exchanges. But what is interesting is that afterwards it didn't drop back to the previous range, it seems to have stabilised out at around £0.049.

I am really hoping that it stays this way, and maybe gradually climbs a bit more at a steady rate. To me, that would be a fair representation of two things. First is the effort that has been put into coding new apps by some people, demonstrating that Hive is a viable ecosystem that can act as a foundation for a lot of great functionality. Second is the way we are finally starting to address the hyper-inflation issue by voting for witnesses that will bring HBD interest rate down and questioning how much money the DHF is giving out by asking proposals a lot more critical questions.

I still think our governance could be further improved by having a flexible mechanism for the DHF to give out loans (not grants) so the floor was lower for smaller requests and higher for bigger ones. There are also some voices questioning whether inflation could be further tackled by reducing author and curation rewards. I'm not in favour of the last because rewarding people for their effort is a big part of the draw of Hive, but I do think we need to find ways to reduce rewards for people who are just farming them with AI rather than producing truly unique content.

So overall, despite my own personal hurdles, I think things are finally starting to look up for Hive. It's still just the first glimmerings of dawn and there's a lot more to do, but I think Hive is starting to show the discipline of maturity and the potential of it's ecosystem.