My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 46

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 ?

For me personally it was a madly busy week in non-Hive land. It's that time of year again, so I spent an inordinate amount of time preparing and advertising my Black Friday promotion. I launched it this Friday morning, a week earlier than "official" Black Friday.

Then Friday evening, my website fell over big time, only coming back again halfway through Saturday. It was long after Microsoft's Friday 13th outage, and I'm still waiting on my website providers to tell me what actually went wrong, but it created rather a lot of stress and enough catch-up work that I've only just got around to doing this update !

Despite all the mayhem, I still managed to do a few posts and some curation, although not quite as much as normal. I'll do better next week....

Meanwhile, it's been another week of tumbling asset prices, and crypto hasn't escaped. BTC and HIVE are both down, and when I checked just now, HIVE had dropped below 3 pence for the first time. I think it's just outside market forces, nothing we're doing. The debt ratio is climbing again, but not to a point where I'd consider it to be dangerous.

I feel that the key thing to do right now is focus on the utility of the Hive ecosystem and all the great friends and tools we've got, not on how it's some kind of easy way to make money. It's still an awesome system, and it might also be our saviour as one of the few places left on the internet where governments don't routinely spy on us and force us to dox ourselves. The government here in the UK are putting North Korea to shame with the level of de-anonymisation and coercive control they are applying to the internet !

So keep on Hiving, everyone ! Have a fun week 😁