HIVE THRIVE— Show #38 —Guest: @gtg

Hive Thrive: Our Hour for Hive Community

📅 Tuesday, 7th Jan @ 6 PM UTC
📍 Live on Discord in the Voice General Channel
🎙 Hosts: @buttcoins & @shadowspub
➡️ Guest: @gtg

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.

After a short break for the holidays, we’re back with Show #38, and this week we’re sitting down with @gtg …one of Hive’s most important and long-standing core developers.

If you’ve been around Hive for any length of time, you’ve almost certainly benefited from his work — whether you know it or not.

We’ll talk about:
• invisible infrastructure vs. visible rewards
• how protocol decisions get made
• what most users misunderstand about core development
• we will explore the long-standing tension on Hive:
the developer / coder side of the ecosystem vs. the creator / curator side.

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 we can safely explore through honest conversation

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 governance friction and systemic issues
✅ Look for ways forward that strengthen the network instead of dividing it

If you’ve ever wished someone would talk about the big and occasionally uncomfortable topics in public — this is the show where that happens.

Links & where to find us

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

🏡 Hive Thrive community:
created/hive-170475

Meet Your Hosts

@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.

@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

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

What is Hive Thrive?

Here at Hive Thrive, we see a real gap between devs, projects, witnesses, community leaders, and everyday Hive users. Many people want to feel more connected, informed, and involved — and this show exists to help bridge that gap.

Hive Thrive is about:
• Learning how Hive actually works
• Sharing what’s being built or maintained
• Exploring where Hive is headed (or could be)
• Identifying roadblocks — and possible solutions
• Creating space for constructive, proactive discussion

We keep things open, take live questions, and when the interview ends, the real conversation often begins.

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’re writing posts, building tools, securing the chain, or just trying to understand how it all fits together — this space is yours.

Bring your questions. Bring your perspective.
And help shape the future of Hive one conversation at a time.

See you Tuesday @ 6 PM UTC.

A nod of appreciation

A shout-out to @ecoinstant, whose enthusiasm and behind-the-scenes support has helped archive many past episodes through the Deep Web 3 Secrets YouTube channel.

Since this show launched, we’ve welcomed guests from all corners of Hive and explored everything from governance and funding to tooling, infrastructure, curation, and culture.

If you’ve missed previous episodes, many are archived here via Deep Web 3 Secrets on YouTube. And if not — the live conversation is always the point.

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

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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