Altcoin Season: Yes, or No? New Hive Curation Tool, Crypto Adoption, etc. .:. Recap of Hive Humpday Hangout SE #16 (July 2, 2025)
After the 3-week break, the #HHHLive show came back online, to the Ecency Discord last Wednesday! Around a dozen Hivians came to the show to hang out and to have fun... We had the "freestyle" show format this week, and we went through many topics... I have tried to keep it in the HIVE niche, but we did move off-topic a few times... hehehehehe...
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As these "special edition" shows aren't recorded, I will try to share with you at least a glimpse of the topics that we discussed... Not many things happened in the cryptosphere, but despite that, participants were open for fun, and many talks went in a joking direction... Which is fine... We had some short discussions, some long discussions, and in the end, the show was almost 2 hours long! 😱
Let me run through the topics... As I like to play some music before the show, the first topic was about DJ-ing and mix tapes... 
The second, obvious topic was hot weather... We had an early summer heat wave in Spain, and it's very hard to focus or do anything without the A/C... We shared some stories of how to "survive" these times, and struggles that our pets have too, in this heat...
Will there be altcoin season this year? That was the next topic that we touched... Lately, Bitcoin is taking all the highlight and gives no space to altcoins to shine... If that continues, the altcoin season is in serious question... Also, the participants of the show agreed that we could view crypto another way around... It's not that crypto is going up, it's more that fiat is melting!
All that led to another important topic... Are the products and services cheaper than they were in the past? Do we have inflation or deflation? Do products have better quality today than they did in the past? I wrote a post about real estate two days ago, and it was partly inspired by the talk in the #HHHLive show!
Along with the chat in voice, we had a parallel chat in the written channel in Discord about HP printers... There were some misunderstandings (on purpose, joking) about HP printers as some of them thought there were HivePower printers... 😂
I have no idea how we moved into the SmartTV discussion from there, but we did... 😂 DO they make sense or not, Stremio platform, IPTV service platforms, hotel TVs, and similar stuff...
But, we did have a talk about HIVE again... 
In the announcement post, 
What you want to achieve with hive?
I did forward the question to participants, but as we were in the "funny mood", most answers didn't have a serious note... (sorry about that)
I shared my view on this question and how my answer changed through time... At the beginning, I had an idea of earning money with HIVE, and maybe living from that, but nowadays, my goal is to have fun, to make friends, and to help out others by sharing my life experience... Sometimes, it can help...
Closer to the end of the show, we talked about crypto adoption, exchanging HBD to other stablecoins, e-commerce, and the possibility that we are all wrong regarding crypto... Maybe we are living in a bubble and crypto isn't that "great" as we think?
I have probably skipped some topics as we were jumping from one to another fast... All in all, we had an interesting show with many dynamics... When there is no one topic, this happens a lot... 😃
These Special Edition shows are not recorded, so if you want to participate in the live discussion, I would strongly recommend joining the future shows! This was just a short recap of things we discussed, but the whole discussion was much broader!
We had 11 participants (including myself)... Thanks, 
Thank you, guys and girls, once again! As a sign of appreciation, I will send some LEN tokens to all participants of the live show! You can pair them with LENM tokens, add liquidity to the diesel pool, and earn rewards! If you want to learn more about the project behind it, check out the 
To encourage more people to come on the mic, I have sent an additional 100 Ecency POINTS to people who shared their thoughts on the mic with us (this time, we had 3 participants in voice)! So POINTS are going to
Special thanks goes to 
Thank you for your time.
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Check out these links to the previous shows:
| Episode Number | Title | Link |
|---|---|---|
| 45 | Retention, Can We Do Better? | Link |
| 44 | @Borniet, The Lord Of The Bots! | Link |
| SE15 | Huge KE Ratio and Hive Power Discussion! | Link |
| 43 | Impressions of #HCDGraz! | Link |
| 42 | Consuming Content on Hive | Link |
| 41 | TopComment Project! How does it work? Talk with @FriendlyMoose | Link |
| SE14 | VSC Network, Ecency Multiple Rewarder, Hive Talks... | Link |
| 40 | How Do You Identify Yourself on HIVE? | Link |
| SE13 | HIVE Rewards in Future, Dev talk, HBD Savings, and More | Link |
| 39 | Apis Hive! What It Is, How It Works? Talk with @LivingUKTaiwan | Link |
| 38 | Curation, Post Value, Dust, Gaming, etc. | Link |
| 37 | Hive and Crypto Plans For 2025 and Beyond! | Link |
| 36 | Hive Creator Days, Graz, AT, and Hive Meetups talk with  @tibfox! | Link |
| SE12 | Why HIVE Pumped? 3Speak or YouTube? SEO Talk and more | Link |
| SE11 | Pump and Dump Discussion, Hive is an Opportunity Creator, etc. | Link |
| 35 | (Im)Balance Between Crypto and Fiat | Link |
| SE10 | ValuePlan Discussion, Funding Startups, Games on Hive, etc. | Link |
| 34 | The Magical Kingdom! Talk with  @hallmann! | Link |
| 33 | How Do YOU Vote For Hive Witnesses? | Link |
| 32 | To Delegate HivePower or Not? | Link |
| SE09 | 3Speak issues and Discussion, Gambling Apps on Hive, Taxes, etc. | Link |
| 31 | Quiz Time!!! - HHHLive 1st Anniversary | Link |
| 30 | How HIVE Changes Lives | Link |
| 29 | HiveFest9, Impressions by  @ninaeatshere,  @achim03, and others | Link |
| 28 | How Do We Spend Our Crypto? | Link |
| SE08 | The Gang is Back, Breaking the Limits | Link |
| SE07 | Ecency Waves, HivePower, Splinterlands, HiveFest, LPs, and more! | Link |
| 27 | How Hive Proposals Work? | Link |
| 26 | Content Creation Experiences | Link |
| SE06 | Education, Traveling Ecency Spoilers, Hive elephants... | Link |
| 25 | Why Did the Hive Price Drop? | Link |
| 24 | What Do We Expect From Hive and Crypto! | Link |
| 23 | Aachen Meetup and WorldMapPin Talk With  @detlev! | Link |
| SE05 | Usernames Origins, Age, Early Retirement, Crypto Portfolio, and more... | Link |
| 22 | Helping Hive to Thrive | Link |
| 21 | Make Yourself Uncomfortable (on Hive!) | Link |
| 20 | First Excursions Out of the Comfort Zone | Link |
| SE04 | BuzzParty Impressions, Weekly Recap, Bonfire | Link |
| 19 | Ways To Buy/Sell Hive! | Link |
| SE03 | Foods, Crypto Research, Education, Predictions | Link |
| 18 | Best Tools For Content Creation | Link |
| 17 | Consistency and Adding Value | Link |
| SE02 | After Show Show | Link |
| 16 | CBRS Philanthropy Chat With  @minigunner! | Link |
| 15 | Profit Taking Planning | Link |
| 14 | Ecency/Hive Chat With @good-karma! | Link |
| SE01 | Relaxed "Exclusive" Session | Link |
| 13 | Writer's Block and How To Overcome It | Link |
| 12 | Hive-Engine Tokens | Link |
| 11 | Hive Guidelines for Newbies | Link |
| 10 | NY Resolutions and Creating Hive Goals | Link |
| 9 | How Was Your (HIVE) 2023? | Link |
| 8 | Presenta tu comunidad - ES/EN Show! - Part 2 | Link |
| 7 | Present Your Community - Part 1 | Link |
| 6 | How to Start on Hive? | Link |
| 5 | Do You Upvote Quality Posts? | Link |
| 4 | Genuine? Authentic? To be or not to be? | Link |
| 3 | Hive Power, HP Delegation, HivePUD... | Link |
| 2 | Hive Meetups, HiveFest, HiveBeeCon | Link |
| 1 | Pilot Episode (Aired 2023-10-18) - The Vision | Link |
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