My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 33

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 ?

From my own personal perspective, last week was quite a good one in terms of engagement and curation. With two decent weeks in succession, my HIVE earnings were decent at 155.823 HIVE/HP. Additionally, I earned 2.788 as the HBD interest came in.

However, the HIVE price has seen another dip, and is now down to £0.0293. This has helped to push the Hive Debt up to 28.79%. Unless something changes, I expect us to be slightly into haircut territory at some point next week. So I've pulled my HBD out of savings; if we haven't yet hit haircut, then they should be worth 7000-odd HIVE, and the earnings I'd get from powering that up could well exceed the HBD interest earnings.

Current Events in Hiveland

There's been quite a lot of discussion recently about the HIVE price, Hive Debt, and whether anything can be done to reverse the decline.

Personally, I think Hive is still a fabulous place as a social platform and place for creative writing. The ecosystem as a whole has huge potential. I don't think it'll disappear (that only happens when the last witness goes offline) but there is a risk of it just bumping along the bottom.

As for the solutions, I think it requires a number of things to be done. Not that I can claim to have any kind of monopoly on ideas.

But one thing I foresee which might help; if the HIVE price drops low enough, the people who are only here to extract market cap out of Hive and treat the place as their own personal piggy bank will give up and leave. The believers, those who understand that there is a difference between covering reasonable costs and outright greed, will stay, and will give us the opportunity to solve our governance issues to ensure that the greedy can never again wreck things.

To implement all of this would probably need the kind of hard fork we saw when Hive and Steem parted company, because the biggest changes need to be in governance.

The things I can see we need to do include stuff like;

1. Separating core security and development from DHF-funded proposals.
2. Making the DHF a loan-giver, not a gift-giver. All proposals should show in cash terms how they'll pay back the investment.
3. Most development should be done outside the DHF, relying on gifts from those who can afford it, the generous upvotes of supporters, and moving to the idea that users of useful tools should be willing to make a nominal payment for using them.
4. Spreading witness rewards more evenly (a sliding scale, not top-20 then a cliff, and with some relationship to Hive's market cap and the actual costs of running a server)
5. Looking at the ratio of witness rewards to author/curation rewards.
6. Having a burn mechanism to help tackle inflation. At the simplest level, this could just be matching each DHF loan with an equal amount of HIVE burned.
7. Somehow (and I'm not a coder, so I don't know if it's possible !) developing a kind of "flatpack" lite node that even the most un-technical of us can stick on an old PC. Even if it's just keeping a backup copy of the blockchain, or processing the most recent blocks to be added to those backups.
8. Those Lite Nodes would give us an ability to rapidly scale. We can then develop tools with real world applications that can be sold to real people without even mentioning crypto (which is often now a poison pill). Stuff like e-commerce tools, online payment methods that leverage our low-fee model, censorship resistant communications and data storage. And yes, games.
9. Finally, we then need to tackle the biggest and hardest thing of all; how to market the awesome tools we are creating in a world saturated with highly-funded offerings by legacy Web2 companies.

I know this looks ambitious, and each part has a lot more detail that could go into it, but from the perspective of everyday Hivers I suspect it would change very little.

But that's just what I think ! I'm sure others will have far better ideas than mine. The hard bit is getting enough consensus to make it happen. 😉