HIVE THRIVE— Show #44 —Guest: @tarazkp

Hive Thrive: Our Hour for Hive Community

📅 Tuesday, 17th February @ 6 PM UTC
📍 Live on Discord in the Voice General Channel
🎙 Hosts: @buttcoins and @alessandrawhite
➡️ Guest: @tarazkp

We are back for Show #44 of Hive Thrive, 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.

This week we are joined by @tarazkp, one of Hive’s most consistent writers and community voices. From Sunday Funday threads to blunt reflections on governance, curation, demand, and downvotes, Tarazkp has never been shy about where he stands. We will dig into price versus product, incentives versus culture, and whether Hive’s current design is producing the outcomes we claim to want.

We are also welcoming a new co-host to Hive Thrive. @alessandrawhite joins the show starting this week. Many of you know her for her active engagement across communities and her steady presence on chain. We are looking forward to bringing her perspective into the mix as we continue evolving the show.

🎙️ What we’ll talk about:
• Why Hive keeps attracting people who claim not to care but clearly do
• What actually creates value here versus what we pretend creates value
• The psychology of the downvote button
• If Hive is antifragile… or just stubborn
• And possibly why everyone thinks they could run the DHF better

There may be hard truths. There may be laughs. There may be mild discomfort.

Join us live.

Hive Thrive: Our Hour for Hive Community

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

Links & where to find us

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

🏡 Hive Thrive community:
created/hive-170475 

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 – 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.

@alessandrawhite – Creative instigator, community gatherer, and low-key chaos coordinator.

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, February 17th @ 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 @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 launching this show, we’ve brought in voices from across the Hive spectrum and explored everything from funding debates and front ends to games, governance, infrastructure, and the mechanics that keep this chain moving.

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

If you missed any show, @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 -

Episode 42. Starkerz - coming soon

Episode 43. Yabapmatt - coming soon

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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