HIVE THRIVE— Show #70 —Guest: @zekepickleman

The Who

The When & Where

📅 Tuesday | 6 PM UTC

🔗 Hive Discord General Voice Channel

About our guest, Zekepickleman 🌟

Alright friends…today we are welcoming a true Hive lifer — @zekepickleman, on the chain since October 2017!

You might know him as “The Blockchain Beerologist,” the guy behind #BeerSaturday — a weekly beer-blogging series he’s kept running for over 470 consecutive weeks, inviting a different guest in almost every time.

But there’s more to Zeke than beer and good vibes. He co-runs Town Crier Marketing, a real digital marketing agency in Ontario, and has spent years documenting an actual attempt to bring local, physical businesses onto the chain — selling coffee for HBD, trading services for Hive, and even helping a business partner deliver a real print newspaper every two weeks.

With @zekepickleman we’ll be chatting about music, his hive journey, we’ll be talking about what it actually looks like to onboard a real small business, what worked and what didn’t, and what’s kept him showing up here for almost nine years straight.

Welcome to Hive Thrive Community Hour, Episode 70

Hive Thrive Community Hour is 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.

🎙️ What we’ll talk about:

• What it actually takes to onboard a real local business onto Hive

• The honest failure rate behind “shop local on-chain” experiments accross hive history

• What nearly 9 years and 470+ weeks of consistency teaches you about this place

• Why he reinvests his own stake into pulling old friends back into posting

There may be hard truths.

There may be laughs.

There may be mild discomfort.

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

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

10 years strong on Hive, host of Pimp Your Post Thursdays, co-host of HiveSpaces on X, and long-time signal booster for emerging voices.

Hive Thrive’s Aim 🎯

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.

Looking for Past Episodes of Hive Thrive Community Hour?

We want to give a shout out to @ecoinstant. His enthusiasm has been the best kind of infectious and he has archived our past episodes. If you missed any of our shows, @ecoinstant has posted them on his Deep Web3 Secrets YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3et84ivMbf3g26u7DF4VbT_pco2iF_lf&si=wXUciF4tJRZOXFQO

See you Tuesday @ 6 PM UTC on Hive Discord General Voice Channel

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 Community Hour is built to help you understand the layers of this ecosystem and figure out where you fit within it.

This spirit of coming together to share and engage has been inspiring and seems a vital step to continuing the Hive blockchain growth and success!

So please, give us your thoughts, let us know guests you’d like to hear from, points you’d like to be discussed, opinions on past interviews.

🏡 Join the Hive Thrive community —

@hive-170475