My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 31

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 ?

First off, a couple of comments relating to the spreadsheet....

The reputation figure (admittedly a bit of a vanity metric !) has jumped because I'm switching to using the Hive Account Health Dashboard to get the figure, because Hivebuzz seems to have stopped updating the reputation figure (at least, it hasn't changed for the last 4 weeks).

The second one is that my HP has jumped a chunk because today is HPUD, and I powered up 1000 of my liquid HIVE. The overall growth of HP and liquid HIVE combined was 123.239, which is still respectable for my level of activity.

In other news... the USD has weakened against GBP, so things like the Hive and BTC prices look a little lower than they should because I'm showing them in pounds. Why the exchange rate has changed is never clear, but I expect it's primarily that the markets don't like the way Trump's adventure in the Middle East is starting to look like an economically expensive forever war. I doubt it's a "Burnham Bounce", because his profligate spending plans have already had a notable impact on UK bond futures. Increasing yields on 10 year bonds show that the markets are factoring in an increased risk of default.

I had a bit of a "duvet day" today, and spent a chunk of it playing on Snapie.io. I don't normally do short-form content, but I really like what @meno has done with Snapie, it's a nice interface and fun to play with. But I'm also making a point of upvoting short-form posts I find interesting, because I think it's a weakness of all the various Hive short-form front ends that people don't curate on them enough. It would be lovely if the 2 cent dust threshold was applied differently on them so it covered total upvotes rather than just upvotes on a single post or comment.

Other than that... life is nicely normal. I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend ! 😁