My BusyBees & SlothlySavers Weekly Update - 2026 Week 6

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 ?

The Broader Picture

What a rollercoaster of a week !

Pretty much every class of investment asset saw significant volatility last week. Basically, everything dumped around Thursday, although with quite a bit of recovery by this morning. At one point, BTC dipped as low as £46462 and gold to £3235.

Meanwhile, the Dollar, Pound and Euro have all shown volatility among themselves, with GBP per USD fluctuating in a range between 1.34 and 1.37. That may not sound like much compared to crypto, but the volumes and liquidity make forex a supertanker in terms of reaction speed compared to crypto's jetski.

The reality is that all three western currencies are on a long term steady downward trajectory compared to the Chinese Yuan, Russian Ruble and Brazilian Real. My belief is that this reflects the steady consolidation of BRICS countries as a source of both raw materials and manufacturing, while the west has de-industrialised and become a service economy.

We so need a Hive stablecoin pegged to gold or... well, anything apart from the US Dollar !

Hive Activity

In Hive terms, I wasn't very active last week in terms of posting - it seems to continue my current lifestyle of only finding time to post at weekends. But I kept up with curation, of course.

I powered up 500 liquid HIVE on HPUD which gets my HP goal well on track.

I also killed about 1000HP of delegations which paid drips in Tribe Tokens. Some of it I refocused into delegations which drip liquid HIVE (mainly to @topcomment), while the rest I kept as HP to edge my vote value up. With the price of HIVE so low, I'm becoming increasingly aware of the 2 cent dust threshold for upvotes, so I'm keep to increase my vote value so it's less of a thing to watch out for.

A Changed Reward Structure ?

Something I noticed is that Hive seems to have switched it's reward structure to HIVE/HP instead of HBD/HP. I'll have to check if that's a setting in the various frontends, of if it's a function of the way Hive works when the HIVE price is so low.

In relation to the price of HIVE, we hit an all time high of the debt ratio this week, at just short of 22%. The HBD I pulled out of savings last week became available, so I've put them on stop-loss trades to convert to HIVE if the price gets much closer to haircut level. With interest and purchases being the only source of HBD if rewards no longer pay out HBD, it's likely my HBD goal will fall by the wayside.

Despite all this, I'm still quite upbeat about Hive itself as a platform. It is one of the few places here in the UK where I can speak freely without worrying about a pre-dawn knock on the door, and is filled with nice people and interesting content.

The price of HIVE is relatively irrelevant to the functioning of the platform as long as it is just high enough for the witnesses to cover their costs. I just wish we could do another hardfork to convert the DHF into a loan maker rather than a grant giver, with fixed funds on top to cover core coding. That would reduce the liquidity drain of the current method.