My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 30

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 ?

Last week was, from my perspective, a really mundane week. That's in a good way. I posted a bit, commented quite a lot and curated a lot. All nicely average, no dramas - just what my life needs right now 😀

The actual value of my Hive account dropped somewhat. I take the prices I use from CoinGecko, because I think that too often the prices reported internally are just too unclear.

For example, PeakD is reporting an HBD internal price of $1.025 and a CoinGecko low-volume price of $0.886, HiveDex is showing $0. while CoinGecko shows $0.8857. All of these prices have issues - PeakD don't say where the internal price is from, HiveDex shows a 24 hour volume of 5062 HBD, while CoinGecko reports a volume on exchanges of only $3.98.

It is the consistent steady slide in the HIVE price which is more concerning, however. CoinGecko reports a 24 hour volume on exchanges of $1.412m, and my suspicion is that most of that is people extracting from Hive.

Extraction of value is something that has been discussed recently in a few posts. The combination of extraction and inflation is the main factor driving the price down. With the drop in HBD interest rate, inflation is showing signs of starting to stabilise.

But people extracting value is a massive issue. Some of it is witnesses pulling down earnings to cover the cost of running their hardware, which is fair enough. But some of it is DHF grants being extracted and accounts creating AI junk to get autovotes and pull the rewards straight out.

All we can do is be vigilant about who we support. We don't want to drive people away, but at the same time we can't afford to be feeding parasites.

In the long run, I believe that if Hive is to grow again, we need our wonderful pool of talented coders to cook up apps that will go viral out in the "real world" that non-Hivers will want to use. The fees and investment would hopefully outweigh the level of extractions.

But I believe that whatever we make, we should actually avoid mentioning the crypto angle; legacy media, governments and legacy finance have all persuaded the average person that crypto is poison. So we don't sell "play to earn". We sell "pay for privacy", data ownership, micro-fees for online payment processing, small utilities that help in daily life for a small payment, things like that. If some of those "normie" users want to come over to Hive fully, that is just a bonus !

That's my ramblings for this week..... have a great weekend everyone !