My brother 
We are incredibly close to having the MVP ready. I can almost taste it. And because we all need something to light a fire in our bellies, this feels like the right time to start showing it.
What is the problem?
It’s a known fact that the biggest transportation company in the world owns no cars. Uber—the always controversial, never-too-ethical behemoth—changed ride-sharing forever. The cat is out of the bag.
But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing freedom-loving people can do.
My brother keeps using this word: disruptive. It might sound like a thirst for chaos, but it’s not. It’s about breaking monopolies, restoring power to everyday people, and moving toward a more decentralized world.
The way we see it, all transactions should be voluntary. Nothing should stand between two people who agree to make a deal.
Yes—even the government.
So why Hive Taxi?
The best way to describe this project is as a Trojan horse.
We’re building something universally useful—something people need regardless of culture or location—but running it on a parallel economy altogether.
Since we, as app makers, take no commissions from payments (they are entirely peer-to-peer), it raises an interesting question: what exactly is there to regulate?
To expand on that—what would they shut down?
The blockchain?
Hive Taxi uses a minimal, optimized backend that simply coordinates the “handshake” between driver and passenger. As much as possible happens client-side, while a permanent record lives on the Hive blockchain itself. Pulling the plug isn’t just difficult—it’s conceptually unclear.
When it’s ready, then what?
We’ll likely start by reaching out to small taxi companies—the kind that still rely on a dispatcher answering a phone.
This tool could help them track their units and audit their operations in ways they’ve never been able to before.
Technology like this can be divisive—disruptive, even—but in my view, it benefits the world, not just the people building it.
How would it benefit Hive?
Beyond the obvious utility, it creates demand.
Imagine this: drivers with larger Hive accounts review passengers and upvote them. Those passengers effectively receive discounts on rides. At the same time, passengers with strong reputations become more desirable to drivers.
Reputation starts to matter in a very real, economic way.
An active Hive Taxi user would be incentivized to hold or acquire tokens—especially HBD—to reduce transportation costs. That dynamic alone could drive compounding demand for Hive’s native assets.
We’ll be opening the code shortly, just as we’ve done with all our previous projects. A system like this deserves scrutiny.
I wish I could give you an exact launch date for the MVP—but experience tells me it’s not “two weeks away,” no matter how much my fingers want to type it.
— MenO
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