Hive Thrive: Our Hour for Hive Community
📅 Tuesday, 17th February @ 6 PM UTC
📍 Live on Discord in the Voice General Channel
🎙 Hosts: @buttcoins and @alessandrawhite
➡️ Guest: @tarazkp
We are back for Show #44 of Hive Thrive, our weekly town hall for builders, critics, curators, and anyone still stubborn enough to care about where this chain is heading. Hive Thrive is where we slow things down, ask the questions, and let ideas breathe in real time. No scripts. No talking points handed out in advance. Just open conversation about Hive, its culture, its economics, its users and its future.
This week we are joined by @tarazkp, one of Hive’s most consistent writers and community voices. From Sunday Funday threads to blunt reflections on governance, curation, demand, and downvotes, Tarazkp has never been shy about where he stands. We will dig into price versus product, incentives versus culture, and whether Hive’s current design is producing the outcomes we claim to want.
We are also welcoming a new co-host to Hive Thrive. @alessandrawhite joins the show starting this week. Many of you know her for her active engagement across communities and her steady presence on chain. We are looking forward to bringing her perspective into the mix as we continue evolving the show.
🎙️ What we’ll talk about:
• Why Hive keeps attracting people who claim not to care but clearly do
• What actually creates value here versus what we pretend creates value
• The psychology of the downvote button
• If Hive is antifragile… or just stubborn
• And possibly why everyone thinks they could run the DHF better
There may be hard truths. There may be laughs. There may be mild discomfort.
Join us live.
Hive Thrive: Our Hour for Hive Community
Come hang out with us
Hive Thrive isn’t meant to be just another background podcast.
We treat it like a live town hall for the blockchain:
• a place where devs, witnesses, curators, creators, and critics can speak in the same room
• a space to explore the tools, tensions, and governance structures actually shaping Hive
• and a setting where honest conversation can replace years of silence, fear, or misunderstanding
We’re here to:
✅ Help people understand what’s actually happening behind the scenes
✅ Surface the real stories behind Hive’s institutions and projects
✅ Talk openly about drama, governance friction, and systemic issues
✅ Look for ways forward that strengthen the network instead of dividing it
Links & where to find us
🔗 Discord show channel:
https://discord.gg/7zeyCtWnGJ 
🏡 Hive Thrive community:
https://peakd.com/c/hive-170475/created 
Meet Your Hosts
@meno – Legacy Hivian, luthier by trade, Herzogian by hobby, cheese oligarch by appetite. Master of ceremony and master of BBQ.
@buttcoins – Hive OG since 2017, community builder, musician, and all-around Butt who somehow keeps saying yes to more projects.
@shadowspub – Eight years strong on Hive, host of Pimp Your Post Thursdays, co-host of Hive Spaces on X, and long-time signal booster for emerging voices.
@alessandrawhite – Creative instigator, community gatherer, and low-key chaos coordinator.
Hive Thrive aims to be a fair, information-based talk show, modeled after a town hall and built for the entire Hive ecosystem. Whether you are writing posts, building tools, securing the chain, or just trying to understand how it all fits together, this space is yours.
We keep things open, take questions from the audience, and when the interview ends, the real conversation often begins. So jump in, bring your voice, and help shape the future of Hive one chat at a time.
See you Tuesday, February 17th @ 6 PM UTC.
What is the Hive Thrive?
Here at Hive Thrive we see a real gap between devs, projects, witnesses, community leaders, and everyday Hive users. There are many people looking to feel more connected, engaged, and informed — and we want to bridge that gap. This show is about:
• Learning about the Hive blockchain
• Sharing what is available to use or being worked on
• Exploring where Hive is headed (or could be)
• Identifying roadblocks and, more importantly, finding solutions
• Fostering constructive and proactive discussions
• Providing another space for the community to engage
We also want to give a shout out to @ecoinstant. His enthusiasm has been the best kind of infectious, and he has been archiving shows through the Deep Web 3 Secrets YouTube channel so people can catch up on past episodes.
Since launching this show, we’ve brought in voices from across the Hive spectrum and explored everything from funding debates and front ends to games, governance, infrastructure, and the mechanics that keep this chain moving.
Tune in to hear real conversations about how Hive works, where it struggles, and where it’s heading. Whether you’ve been here for years or just arrived, Hive Thrive is built to help you understand the layers of this ecosystem and figure out where you fit within it.
If you missed any show, @ecoinstant has recorded them and posted it here through the deepweb 3 secrets YouTube channel:
Episode 1. Blocktrades— https://youtu.be/FiQNB6h2P5c?si=azCZ-J-p9w1iq3Bu
Episode 2. Lordbutterfly— (sound issues, sorry, this one is left to the ether)
Eouside 3. Acidyo- https://youtu.be/jWIYu8ryQj8?si=u6kzPPYhk6FTUGYR
Episode 4. Taskmaster4550- https://youtu.be/SBGlMMW_IOE?si=19xTUtT-AegNdZcV
Episode 5. WOO Witness Cage Match- https://youtu.be/rgbaXenzlKU?si=4622dSi1_kFG9lJJ
Episode 6. Ecoinstant- https://youtu.be/YzM2_6b0n-A
Episode 7. Vaultec - https://youtu.be/UI8zDhrWqw8
Episode 8. Fokusnow - https://youtu.be/f9AUduwwDp0?si=0Q_gIcrXsg660-4n
Episode 9. State of Hive Music -https://youtu.be/4FX_UVB9Cy4?si=S1Ql_NkWN3RuSnOF
Episode 10. Edicted - https://youtu.be/qGUBkGddJT4?si=-dWMyj--8DWeR6IK
Episode 11. Mcsamm - https://youtu.be/4j2Ga_ABclQ
Episode 12. Disregardfiat and Markegiles -https://youtu.be/kfWvvzw-Ayo?si=g0RvHUTG7WFAFHSQ
Episode 13. Bookerman -https://youtu.be/MD7qdeTe9wk
Episode 14. Enginewitty - https://youtu.be/tQfywkkNQ28
Episode 15. Hallman and mynewlife
Episode 16. Pharesim
Episode 17. Ecoinstant and thecrazygm -https://youtu.be/RYgc-hpwCeY?si=2q_T9eo-mJwUlobG
Episode 18. Urasoul- https://youtu.be/T7XLe_Rvr_c?si=Plu1uSn8NdWQdVhH
Episode 19. James Russel - https://youtu.be/2pLFqK5_JHg?si=G1u40srYa_BDH2CZ
Episode 20. Mcfarhat - https://youtu.be/dXHS1ukquh8?si=EHw2jLoJj0UPu1Ct
Episode 21. minigunner & artakush - https://youtu.be/Swt1R_T21g0?si=uVMNkGNtJNUVs8Su
Episode 22. Stoodkev - https://youtu.be/D0_4yiJDfLc?si=NWk5cJZA0jUbBwHU
Episode 23. Knowhow92- https://youtu.be/fTrJVLMpLXk?si=ByQCVG8nNaRXoP0D
Episode 24. Solominer - https://youtu.be/GxHZSp5i3sw
Episode 25. Snapie Team - https://youtu.be/R3u0smwSuo4
Episode 26. Roelandp- https://youtu.be/IHtWz3TO9J8?si=_gm9ceNPq2513kgV
Episode 27. Eddiespino - https://youtu.be/U25XmU_NOgI?si=rVQ7XpiJNHv_rWr0
Episode 28. Hivetrending -https://youtu.be/Hjf_9viF-EU?si=u4WaDsQVoA6-afZt
Latest Deep Web 3 Secrets— https://youtu.be/rkK4_6Fwfq0?si=UXZnkuPYhaZV1In6
Episode 29. Detlev - https://youtu.be/ihWtIgP3Ldk?si=G3NpbvooZGt9NYjI
Latest Deep Web 3 Secrets— https://youtu.be/rkK4_6Fwfq0?si=UXZnkuPYhaZV1In6
Episode 30. Thekittygirl - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPH1vtjMjzs
Episode 32. Jarvie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HIeQgRlqs
Episode 33. Livinguktaiwan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfXrvgOswn4
Episode 34. Bobaphet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tUhAHPmOm4
Episode 35. Blanchy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz7YyssCIRo
Episode 36. Grampo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEzCe3rKfs
Episode 37. Crimsonclad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxQ-kIYVGFA
Episode 38. GTG - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J-5psw8SLc
Episode 39. Alessandra White - https://youtu.be/jml0jPCk8G0?si=gmdR6IBwfzimkYyV
Episode 40. Andrarchy - https://youtu.be/-rXx3jlgh7c?si=Xdkj3oNhKoL1e824
Episode 41. PH1102 - https://youtu.be/ljzKNOuwX3g?si=O2JL7hAFI3WcMd03
Episode 42. Starkerz - coming soon
Episode 43. Yabapmatt - coming soon
Latest Deep Web 3 Secrets— https://youtu.be/rkK4_6Fwfq0?si=UXZnkuPYhaZV1In6
This spirit of coming together to share and engage has been inspiring and seems a vital step to continuing the HIVE BLOCKCHAINS growth and success!
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