My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 25

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 ?

My earnings were down a bit as a result of being horribly inactive on Hive the previous week. This week has been better, I've posted a little more as well as engaging a lot more.

I seem to find I'm doing a lot more in-depth discussion through comments nowadays, and I still prefer to do a few quality comments rather than filling the place with meaningless "nice post" ones with no further context.

One thing I'm happy with is that I've been monitoring my Hive Account Health Dashboard - a nice little tool created by @friendlymoose - and finally got everything into the green.

I find it useful as a way to identify any bad habits I'm falling into and correcting them before they become a real problem. In my case, I found I was curating a relatively narrow circle of people. The dashboard pointed this out, and it's reminded me to look more widely at other content creators and in the process discovering some wonderful stuff.

I have also been thinking quite hard about HBD and my relationship with it. Currently, my entire remaining stack of HBD is on Hivedex at a stop-loss price just above hard haircut level.

But I'm wondering if I'd be better off just weathering the storm. I've done some real digging; the info is hard to find, because I don't think anyone ever seriously thought we'd hit the debt limit when it was designed. It turns out my understanding about the haircut was limited and incomplete.

What actually happens is that at the soft limit of 20%, which we've already hit, the haircut rule kicks in by issuing rewards as HIVE/HP rather than HBD/HP. Then, at the 30% hard limit, HBD depegs from the US Dollar. I'm not quite sure exactly what it becomes valued at, but I think it's related to how far above the debt limit we've gone. But once we go back under the debt limit, it resumes it's peg.

So basically, if it loses the peg it is just a case of holding our nerve and waiting for the debt level to drop. You only lose out if you sell your HBD when it's lost the peg. Although selling it just before is a great way to pick up a bunch of HIVE you can use to buy HBD when it's cheap, if you are brave enough !