More Development On HivePay & Use Case For HBD

We're been a little quiet these days on talking about things we're working on...

I hope you know, we're always busy!

I mentioned this the other day on a live stream that there are literally only 3 people on our team. One developer, one designer / support staff....And me, who basically just dances on camera and writes things on the interwebs!

We don't have the big backing or massive support that other projects do, but we're always here. Trying to add value to the blockchain in any way we can.

One of the things we created over a year ago was HivePay.io

The idea was to completely remove the need for entrepreneurs to use things like PayPal, and tap into the Hive eco-system. It was our little 'merchant solution' and we've been adding to it over the past year!

Earlier this year, we added the SWAP services to HivePay.io, where the blockchain could flip Hive for Swap.Hive and tap into the Hive Engine eco system and all the layer 2 projects on chain. It's been a pretty big success and we're so happy with it.

But HivePay itself was always about...Offering a service for merchants. And one of the biggest supporters of HivePay has been @hashkings and their amazing blockchain based game. We've been listening to their feedback and working to improve HivePay for them as well as all merchants that are using the service.

One of the biggest challenges for HivePay.io and Hive as a whole is getting more people to use, adopt and offer HBD as a method of payment.

As you can imagine, we're huge fans of it and have plastered it all over our sites, including ListNerds as a way to pay for products and services within the platform:

Lots of our members have been taking advantage of this and we continue to add more Hive based tokens as ways to pay for services on our programs!

Tonight was special though....As we welcomed a brand new merchant to the HivePay fold - The Pizza Plan!

This is a relaunch of a popular online marketing budget tool that decided it was time to tap into Hive as well....And wouldn't you know it!

You can now pay for your upgraded membership in Pizza Plan with HBD via HivePay!

I know, I know....

The CTP tribe and all our projects don't move at lightning speed....

We aren't the most well known Hive witnesses....

Our community is awesome but still small...

I think we embody what Hive truly is....It's the blockchain where entrepreneurs can show up, put in the work, and good things will happen. And while I'm not trying to be the 'hype machine' here for my company and my community....

We've got a lot more in store for the blockchain this year. Stay tuned ;)