HIVE THRIVE— Show #42 —Guest: @starkerz

Hive Thrive: Our Hour for Hive Community

📅 Tuesday, 3rd February @ 6 PM UTC
📍 Live on Discord in the Hive General Voice Channel
🎙 Hosts: Hive account@buttcoins and Hive account@meno
➡️ Guest: Hive account@starkerz

Here we go again with another round of Hive Thrive, the weekly town hall where Hive’s builders, critics, caretakers, and concerned stakeholders come together to talk openly about where Hive is, and where it might be headed.

Tomorrow’s show will lean less toward a traditional guest interview and more toward a focused community discussion. While Hive account@starkerz has been involved in several important Hive initiatives, including work around the Hive debit card, CheckinXYZ, and Distriator, the core reason for this conversation is a growing concern many of us share around Hive’s current inflation trajectory and DHF spending practices.

Over the past two years, Hive has seen sustained inflation at or above 10 percent annually, with projections suggesting inflation could rise to roughly 12.5 percent this year. This raises uncomfortable but necessary questions about long-term sustainability, value preservation, and whether current spending levels are aligned with measurable outcomes.

During the show, we will dig into how the DHF has been used across a range of initiatives, including funding for sporting events, performance arts, infrastructure projects, and other large-scale efforts. The goal is to examine patterns. How do we define success? How do we measure return on investment? What lessons have we actually learned from past spending decisions?

Hive account@starkerz brings a perspective that is both critical and constructive. He is someone actively working on real-world utility and onboarding while simultaneously questioning whether Hive’s economic governance is serving its stated goals. That combination makes him a valuable voice for a discussion that seeks nuance.
This session is intended as an open forum. We welcome a wide range of viewpoints, including arguments for continued or increased spending, calls for tighter controls, or proposals for structural change. The aim is not consensus, but open dialog.
If you care about Hive’s long-term health, governance, and economic direction, this is a conversation worth showing up for. Hive Thrive: Our Hour for Hive Community

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Here we go again with another round of Hive Thrive – the weekly town hall where we bring Hive’s builders, critics, protectors, reformers, and the occasional trouble-maker into one room and see what happens.

From London dev halls to the Hive Hub in Krakow 🐝✈️
Tomorrow on the podcast, we’re chatting with Hive account@alessandrawhite — Hive’s globe-trotting ambassador — currently buzzing around Krakow with Hive account@bitterirony.

If Hive had frequent-flyer miles, she’d be top of the leaderboard.

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

Bring your questions about Hivewatchers, moderation philosophy, decentralization, power dynamics, blacklists, second chances, and the future of community trust on-chain.

If you’ve ever wished someone would talk about “the big, untouchable topics” in public—this is the show where that finally happens.

Links & where to find us

🔗 Discord show channel:
https://discord.gg/7zeyCtWnGJ 

🏡 Hive Thrive community:
created/hive-170475 

Meet Your Hosts
Hive account@meno – Legacy Hivian, luthier by trade, Herzogian by hobby, cheese oligarch by appetite. Master of ceremony and master of BBQ.

Hive account@buttcoins – Hive OG since 2017, community builder, musician, and all-around Butt who somehow keeps saying yes to more projects.

Hive account@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.

Hive account@alohaed – The man, the voice. Ed is one of those Hiveans who really understands the Hive ethos, and will probably slip in a comic book reference or two.

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, Feb 3rd @ 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 Hive account@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 this rocket launched we have welcomed guests from all corners of Hive and dug into everything from the DHF to front ends, games, curation, value plans, infrastructure, and more. Join us and see how you and other everyday Hiveans can get involved and learn more about this multi-faceted Hive blockchain ecosystem. All our shows are packed with useful information for any Hive enthusiast or newcomer looking to understand this place a little better.
If you missed any show, Hive account@ecoinstant has recorded them and posted it here through the deepweb 3 secrets YouTube channel:

Episode 1. Blocktrades—

Episode 2. Lordbutterfly— (sound issues, sorry, this one is left to the ether)

Eouside 3. Acidyo-

Episode 4. Taskmaster4550-

Episode 5. WOO Witness Cage Match-

Episode 6. Ecoinstant-

Episode 7. Vaultec -

Episode 8. Fokusnow -

Episode 9. State of Hive Music -

Episode 10. Edicted -

Episode 11. Mcsamm -

Episode 12. Disregardfiat and Markegiles -

Episode 13. Bookerman -

Episode 14. Enginewitty -

Episode 15. Hallman and mynewlife

Episode 16. Pharesim

Episode 17. Ecoinstant and thecrazygm -

Episode 18. Urasoul-

Episode 19. James Russel -

Episode 20. Mcfarhat -

Episode 21. minigunner & artakush -

Episode 22. Stoodkev -

Episode 23. Knowhow92-

Episode 24. Solominer -

Episode 25. Snapie Team -

Episode 26. Roelandp-

Episode 27. Eddiespino -

Episode 28. Hivetrending -
Latest Deep Web 3 Secrets—

Episode 29. Detlev -

Latest Deep Web 3 Secrets—

Episode 30. Thekittygirl -

Episode 32. Jarvie -

Episode 33. Livinguktaiwan -

Episode 34. Bobaphet -

Episode 35. Blanchy -

Episode 36. Grampo -

Episode 37. Crimsonclad -

Episode 38. GTG -

Episode 39. Alessandra White -

Episode 40. Andrarchy -

Episode 41. PH1102 -

Latest Deep Web 3 Secrets—

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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