HiveToday 95 - Lightning Tips, a New 3Speak, and 253 Stakers on Power Up Day
Zap a Creator. Try the New 3Speak. Power Up With 253 Hivers.
The tip jar learned a new language. On 3Speak, anyone with a Bitcoin Lightning wallet can now tip a creator, no Hive account needed. On November 13, 3Speak shipped a whole new look. And on November 1, 253 Hivers locked up 91,025 HIVE in a single day.
This is HiveToday #95, a catch-up recap of the last three weeks on Hive (October 24 through November 14, 2026). It's good to be back.
New here? Hive is a social blockchain where you own your account and your posts, and posting, voting, and tipping don't cost a fee on every click. Stakeholders elect "witnesses" to run the chain, which has been live since March 2020.
If you only read three posts: @vikisecrets on one shared spot for your Lightning address in every Hive app (14 comments and counting) · @mantequilla-soft on the 3Speak redesign · @dalz on how more than half of all HIVE now sits on exchanges.
This Week on Hive
Money is starting to flow in from outside. For years, tipping a Hive creator meant having a Hive account first, but now a fan with any Lightning wallet can send sats.
3Speak led the way: every tip window now has a Lightning tab. Fans don't need a Hive account, they can set up monthly tips, and creators can get the sats in their own wallet. @vikisecrets brought Lightning "zaps" to his new app, cyberspace77. Then he asked the bigger question: should every Hive app read your Lightning address from the same place in your profile? His proposal would add a shared wallet field for Lightning, Bitcoin, and Ethereum addresses, plus a social field for your other profiles. You would set it once, and every app could use it. If you build or run a Hive app, this is the thread to weigh in on now, before every app picks its own format.
Then 3Speak got a new face when @mantequilla-soft rolled out a redesign across every page, with a sliding Spotlight on the home page. The Audio Editor is now open to everyone, and a new invite program pays you 10% of what the people you invite earn from ads for three months. In the team's tests, the home page showed its main content in 1.25 seconds on desktop, down from 2.0, and the site speaks 21 languages. Earlier in the month, a 3Speak update added YouTube and TikTok import, a thumbnail editor, and a full podcast player.
Stakers showed up, too. @hivebuzz counted 253 people who powered up 91,025 HIVE on November Power Up Day, and helpers gifted 72 HIVE to newer users. The November Power Up Month is running now for anyone who wants to keep going. Still, more stake left than arrived over three weeks: 850,188 HIVE was powered up and 1,817,018 was powered down. A few large accounts led the power-downs, including the HBD Stabilizer, whose funding ended on November 5. For the big picture, @dalz found that exchanges held 300 million HIVE at the end of October, which is more than half of all HIVE. @arcange posted the monthly statistics and finance report for October.
PeakD kept tuning its tools for writers and curators: @asgarth gave AutoVote trails a switch to skip upvotes or downvotes. The rule editor now shows an estimated vote value, and you can hide up to 15 tags instead of 7. Blogs on peakd.blog now include older SteemPeak posts. The earlier update split Settings into five tabs that save as you go (40 comments).
Games had a busy run as @splinterlands released Starlight with 36 new cards, then announced Dragon's Feast and The Reckoning, a 15-card mini-set. Ecency's Raidstead closed its first season with 59 community alliances and 191 players, and Season 2 opened on November 9. Hive Town is a newer spot for mini-games: @curamax wrote about why skill beats spending there, and @rozioo ran a Honey Tower contest on it.
People met in person, too, and the top-paid post of the period was @livinguktaiwan's recap of a London meetup, with 104 comments.
Creators: If you make video or audio, start with 3Speak. Turn on Lightning tips, try the Audio Editor and invite program, then import your old videos. If you curate, PeakD's new AutoVote controls help you curate without babysitting your votes.
Join in
- @splinterlands — Dragon's Feast runs November 17–30, with 30 skins across 15 characters
- @splinterlands — The Reckoning pre-pay opens November 24, 8 PM ET
- @wrestorgonline — WOO Beta packs go on sale November 23: 60 cards, 90-day sale window
- @ecency — Raidstead Season 2 is open now; join your community's alliance
- @hdev — HivePulse SEO contest week 16: 600 HIVE pool, paid only if five or more writers enter
- @hivebuzz — November Power Up Month is underway
- @x-rain — HivePosh contest for sharing Hive posts off-Hive, plus a Threads contest
- @buttcoins — Hive Thrive #81 replay; new shows on Tuesdays
Development Pulse
Core chain: Most top witnesses run node version 1.28.9. The chain kept making blocks as normal, and on the build side developers merged work that lets "pruned" nodes keep less history and still talk to the network. They also merged a cap on how much a funding proposal can ask per day, but that cap needs a future hard fork and is not live yet.
From the core dev meeting: @howo shared the monthly notes: Gopherd, Hive's second node program, is producing blocks. "Lite accounts" are in testing, and the developers want feedback from app teams. A full node with every add-on now rebuilds in under a day instead of about two. The For You feed's storage dropped from 300 GB to about 7.4 GB.
Node runners: @gtg showed how to run an exchange node in four lines (26 comments).
3Speak engineering: The team rebuilt its encoder setup for community operators and grew its web app tests from about 1,400 to over 4,200; @mantequilla-soft has the details for people who run an encoder.
HiveDevs feed: Daily @sagarkothari88 HiveSuite logs · @ausbitbank desktop widget for witness rank, wallet, and HIVE price · @themarkymark AI server upgrades
Project Spotlights
Main coverage is under This Week on Hive. These are extra.
Magi: @magi.network shipped version 0.12, its biggest upgrade so far, with a new Bitcoin vault design and voted-in witness seats.
Liketu: @liketu added Fitbook, which turns the clothes in your photo posts into a closet, plus health posts and 3D meetup places.
Skatehive: The team built a way for the Coletivo XV skate community to submit and publish posts to Hive.
Hive Grove: @shiftrox added raffles and wallet improvements.
Keelhaven: @dlmmqb launched a community pool for EDSI token holders.
Worldmappin: @sanjeevm took Hive and Worldmappin on the road in Nashik, India.
Network Stats
| Metric | 21 days (Oct 24 – Nov 14) |
|---|---|
| HIVE price | $0.0397 |
| HIVE market cap | ~$21.9M |
| CoinGecko rank | #725 |
| 24h change (HIVE) | −7.3% |
| 30-day change (HIVE) | −22.9% |
| HBD print rate | 0 (no new HBD minting) |
| HBD savings rate | 10% |
| HIVE powered up | 850,188 HIVE |
| HIVE powered down | 1,817,018 HIVE |
| Net stake change | −966,829 HIVE |
Prices from CoinGecko, November 14, 9:14 AM PT.
Exchanges: @dalz counted 73 million HIVE in net deposits to exchanges from January to October. October added 3.2 million, and Upbit holds the most.
HBD explained: HBD is Hive's dollar token. When its debt gets too high compared to HIVE's value, the chain stops minting new HBD, and a print rate of zero means that pause is still on. Full explainer: issue #75.
Powering up: @demotruk led self power-ups at about 75,555 HIVE. @smartvote followed at 55,000, then @fedesox at 53,553.
Governance
Most top-21 witnesses run v1.28.9 (15 of 21), while five run v1.28.8 and one runs v1.28.7.
Funded DHF proposals (paid above Return Proposal #0):
- #373 Hive Keychain Development Proposal 2026: 540 HBD/day
- #348 Worldmapping 2.0: 195 HBD/day
- #379 Ecency development and maintenance: 100 HBD/day
Fewer proposals are paid now: the HBD Stabilizer ended November 5, Hive Dev Proposal #2 ended November 1, and the public HafSQL database proposal ended November 13. Only 835 HBD a day now goes out, across three proposals.
Debate: @jocieprosza argues that Magi has drawn about 722,000 HBD from the fund. The post says its swaps so far total about 22.7 million HBD and asks what is being done about trading costs. Magi's current proposal is not being paid right now. If you vote on proposals, this is a thread to read and answer.
Governance Data - Hive Power-Ups
- Top 21d:
@demotruk 75,555 ·
@smartvote 55,000 ·
@fedesox 53,553 ·
@rozioo 50,036 ·
@jimmy.adames 49,158
- Totals (21d): 850,188 up · 1,817,018 down · net −966,829 HIVE
Top Community Posts This Week
Figures are each author's reward over the past three weeks, in HIVE. About half is paid as liquid HIVE and half as Hive Power (staked HIVE).
342 HIVE — @livinguktaiwan: London meetup 2026 — 870 votes, 104 comments. A warm recap of Hivers meeting in a London pub and office, with the most comments of the top five.
292 HIVE — @sanjeevm: Goodbye is difficult but duty takes precedence — 719 votes, 10 comments. A father's story of a 12-day family visit and the airport goodbye.
281 HIVE — @cryptoandcoffee: Living In The Past — 413 votes, 9 comments. A blunt sports column on why Manchester United keeps falling short of its own history.
279 HIVE — @cryptoandcoffee: Northern Sea Route News - Not Plain Sailing — 403 votes, 8 comments. A look at the shipping numbers behind the Arctic trade route north of Russia.
275 HIVE — @worldmappin: Travel Digest #3090 — 346 votes, 17 comments. The daily round-up of travel posts pinned on the Hive map.
Don't miss (discussion-heavy): @vikisecrets Lightning address proposal — 98 votes, 14 comments · @livinguktaiwan postcard experiment — 51 comments · @solominer guess-the-weight contest — 56 comments · @rozioo Honey Tower contest — 55 comments · @asgarth PeakD settings update — 40 comments
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