My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 32

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's been a nicely average week, which I'm completely happy with 😀

I've been able to keep my posting rate consistent - about 4 posts a week, so not where it was, but I'm still gradually closing the gap on my goal. I've also maintained curation rates, which is where quite a bit of my earnings come from. Overall earnings were 81 HIVE/HP, which is down a little on the previous week but still in the average range I've been earning recently.

I've also spent a good chunk of time doing shortform stuff on snapie.io - it's the first shortform front-end I've felt comfortable in, I generally much prefer creating longer form content. One thing I have been making an effort to do is upvote people's posts in Snapie in the same way I do in other front ends. Short form content doesn't seem to attract the same rewards as longer form and comments, and I think that's a shame.

Something I particularly notice is quite a lot of short form content gets either very low vote percentages, or vote from low vote value accounts. I suspect some of it is automated, but a chunk of it might come from relatively new users whose vote values haven't built up yet. So I try to make an effort to upvote those snaps to get them over the dust threshold. That way, everyone's votes count for something rather than the lower ones being wasted.

On a broader scale, gold and silver prices have recovered quite a bit, and Sterling is still quite strong against the US Dollar. The HIVE price is still gradually sliding, which is having an impact on the Hive Debt, now up to 27.48%. Once it hits 30%, HBD will stop being pegged to the US dollar. It doesn't make too much difference in the way Hive operates, but it'll reduce the effective value of DHF payments (probably not a bad thing), and I expect that once it happens it'll be a permanent state of affairs until we get some solid governance changes and outside investment.