Hello Hello Hivians.

Happy 5th Anniversary HIVE

I was not a user of Hive when it was created, but I was a Twitter user and had seen some of the drama and fallout on Twitter without realising what was going on.

Fast forward a year and after @ifarmgirl and @coquicoin successfully navigated Hive from our old blogging platform read.cash I plucked up the courage to join them. There were a few hiccups in the first few months where I just didn't get Hive, but a swift KUTA (Kick Up The Arse) or two from @coquicoin had me right back on the chain persevering some more...

This was in 2021, so fast forward again to now and I can safely say ....

I fluffing love HIVE

Thinking back to 2020 and looking at the cryptoverse now in 2025 we can see that the amount of Layer 1 blockchains has risen dramatically.

The competition is massive and it is fierce.

It is heartening to read in a post that I will reference in a second that ....

Changes are happening and changes are also sought after here on Hive too. We look forward to the next five years as we make those changes and pave new roads through Web3. Hive on!

Much is made of the Hive framework and how easy and inviting it is for developers to build their projects on Hive.

We also spend a fluffing small fortune marketing Hive...

Yet I don't really see any projects being built by non Hivians.

I love Hive, did I tell you that! Okay so there are some people on here that I am not particularly enamoured with. There are things that I don't like. But just like in the big bad real world you get on with it. You can't change anything, so just have fun and carry on Hiving!

The Hive post that was sourced from is Hive 5: Celebrating our 5th Anniversary as Hive

Within that post we are invited to write a post about our favourite project. This then is my response and entry to my favourite project on Hive.

I have been thinking about this for a few days. By the way if you want to enter your post. Apart from showing your love to Hive and a particular project you could also win a share of 500 HBD!

500 HBD, not too shabby is it?

What was that?

Oh no ....

I just heard a high pitched voice!!!!

It was none other than the 82 years young gin drinking hottie from the Highlands of Scotland Matilda...

Who was telling me aka Tengolotodo ....

500 FLUFFING HBD HEY TENGO YOU COULD BUY ME MORE GIN

She is an alterego of mine that I had pleasure in intorducing to Hivians during a Talk show I hosted in the Ecency discord.

She and myself were then created as NFTs on the CrafInk game from the wonderful @hiq and @hiq.magazine project that I was involved in. There is a sabbatical going on at the moment or this could well have been my favourite project!

Fluff me ~ I am digressing again!

Real World Projects...

I have worked in the jungles of Africa, I have seen the devastation that the lack of water does.

So the water borehole projects in Africa are amazing and wonderful to see.

It truly is gratifying to see the life altering situations we as a blockchain can make to some people.

But a project that for me will have an even more global impact is the Spend HBD or Distriator project.

Some of you might remember at the start of this blog that I came from read.cash which was on the BitcoinCash chain forked from BTC in 2017. One thing that they had going for them was the ability for holders to spend and pay for goods and services with BCH at businesses that accepted it.

Now we are doing the same thing with HBD! Fluffing awesome and it has taken off in Nigeria and Venezuela.

Another amazing project that even gives you cash back. But I am not going to choose either of those as my favourite project.

I just checked my word count ... 700 words and I have not come to the part where I tell you about my favourite project!

Some of you might have thought I would choose the Silver Bloggers community since I am a moderator there.

Well of course I did think about that!

It is a community and one thing about Hive is the community spirit and those people you meet and interact with!

There are communities all over the place. So no it is none of the communities that I love and frequent such as Silver Bloggers, Wednesday Walk, Feathered Friends, Foodies Bee Hive, Football on Hive, BEER, Music, Worldmappin

Those are the main Hive communities that I frequent.

It is none of them.

As a side note, I love the tools that we are given by the developers. I love the front ends and their UIs.

But as a user I wish that developers could all sing off the same song sheet. We are trying to showcase Hive to new users so it helps when all the tools join up together.

One project that seems to be belittled and generates so much "not goodness" at times is InLeo. They have been trying to build contacts and have partnerships with other chains. Crypto is full of cross chain partnerships at the moment and the more people we can have using Hive the better. The partnership with Dash looks pretty good.

But I am not getting involved in politics which is the norm now when you talk about the DHF and funding for InLeo.

That is one side of Hive that I as a Projects Manager with a huge emphasis on Project Controls pull my hair out at!

Before I finish up I want to talk about Hive as a meeting place. I am the male half of the account @mmonline and the female half is @deraaa. Did you know that we joined Hive within a few days of each in 2021.

We are the complete opposites but together have our MMO project which we are developing, one aspect is onboarding new Hivians to Hive. So far they have been Nigerians from Deraa's home country but we are targeting the UK and the US as well.

Whilst this might be my favourite parttime project on Hive we do have social media sites such as Insta plus a full blown MMO website . Feel free to help us out by voting and subscribing etc. We have some amazing tips for people.

Both of us love making making money online and of course saving money!

To that end we are both members of the Saturday Savers Club here on Hive run by @eddie-earner and @shanibeer.

This is yet another project that is helps promote engagement and saving awareness and is part of the SPI family. I could argue that whole SPI family is one of my favourite proects ...

But no, I love the underdog!

And talk about fluffing timing!!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen today I present to you a little project that on Tuesday celebrate its 200th yes 200th edition.

This has been running for 200 fluffing weeks!

I have had the privelidge to be involbed as a sponsor for a prize for as long as I can remember on Hive!

A massive shout out to the man from Galway ... the Guiness drinking golf playing football daft coaching super Dad that is @ablaze and his project THREE TUNE TUESDAY

You might have seen people use the tag #ttt or #threetunetuesday and not know what the fluff they were on!

Well now you do the project is three tune tuesday where you post an article written by you and share three tunes and tell us a wee bit about them.

There have been some brilliant articles over the years, we have had Hive musicians composing and playing their own music, Hivians singing and playing cover songs, and then numpties like me who fluffing love music sharing tunes from often the 80s!

It is brilliant, you get to hear and see about music from all over the world, from all genres.

It gets people talking, it drives engagement and brings across people on Hive whom you would not normally meet...

To explain more I leave you with the post from the main man yesterday and 200-inspired songs for Three Tune Tuesday - Week 200 - win 5 HBI

Three Tune Tuesday
That's right, it's Tuesday folks and for our merry little band of ladies and lads, that means sharing tunes, good vibes and engagement. As another week disappears in the rearview mirror, we have loads of engagement and tunes flying around on Three Tune Tuesday and sure isn't that bloody fantastic! I hope you're ready to share three tunes from wherever you find yourself on this magical spinning lump of rock that we all call home and sure you might even sing us a tune if we're lucky?

Words about it from the man himself @ablaze

This is my 200th week waxing lyrical for Three Tune Tuesday and we are still going strong.

That my friends is why Three Tune Tuesday is my favourite Hive project!

TL;DR

Hive celebrates its fifth anniversary

TTT or Three Tune Tuesday is my favorite Hive project

Thanks so much for popping in and have a great new week!