Hive Thrive: Our Hour for Hive Community
📅 Tuesday, June 24th @ 6 PM UTC
📍 Live on Discord in the Voice General Channel
🎙 Hosts: @buttcoins & @shadowspub
➡️ Guest: @pharesim
Another week, another Hive Thrive— our ongoing dive into the minds of the builders, visionaries, and behind-the-scenes contributors who shape, secure, and scale the Hive blockchain every day.
Here is a link to the show channel on Hive Discord
https://discord.gg/7zeyCtWnGJ
We also just made a Hive Thrive community to share show posts or anything related to Hive Thriving. Here is a link to the community.
https://peakd.com/c/hive-170475/
Meet this weeks guest
@pharesim
🎙️ This week’s guest is @pharesim, one of Hive’s Top 20 witnesses, a hive infrastructure supporter, and the creator of multiple tools and services that support the ecosystem behind the scenes.
He’s the developer of HiveInvite, an onboarding gateway that makes creating Hive accounts easy —and he also runs a public Hive node at api.pharesim.me, which helps front-ends stay fast and stable.
But beyond the tech, he’s also the mind behind Curangel—a long-running curation project that distributes rewards to both delegators and curators, promotes quality content, and actively pushes back against spam and abuse on Hive. It’s a system that blends manual curation, automated voting, and governance-backed downvotes to keep Hive clean, fair, and discoverable.
We’ll talk witness roles, blockchain infrastructure, decentralized content discovery, and the invisible mechanics that make Hive tick.
We’ll be diving into:
• What it really means to be a Top 20 Hive witness in 2025
• The evolution of witness responsibilities since the Hive fork
• HiveInvite - and easy onboarding tool
• The mission and mechanics behind Curangel
• How it curates, distributes rewards, and applies downvotes to protect Hive
• Why infrastructure matters (public nodes, RPC performance, decentralization)
• What most Hive users don’t understand about how the blockchain runs
• Where Hive is heading—and what needs to happen to get there
Meet Your Hosts
Your co-hosts for this journey are:
🔥 @buttcoins – Hive OG since 2017, community builder, musician and all-around Butt
🔥 @shadowspub – Eight years strong on Hive, host of Pimp Your Post Thursdays, co-host of Hive Spaces on GoBrunch, and an overall Hive powerhouse
Hive Thrive is strives to be a fair and information based talk show— modeled after a town hall and built for the entire Hive ecosystem. Whether you’re writing posts, building tools, securing the chain, or just curious about how it all works, 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, June 24th @ 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 so 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 what’s 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
Here at Hive Thrive we would like to give a shout out to @ecoinstant, his enthusiasm has been the best kind of infectious. He is also a witness here on hive. You can support him here…. https://vote.hive.uno/@synergy.witness
Since this rocket launched we have had on many interesting guests spanning to all of Hives corners, we are dedicated to keep interviewing the movers and shakers of the Hive Blockchain. So far we have gotten into the nitty gritty of the DHF, we have discussed the future of hive, projects supporting internally and externally, we recently dove into the music community, and are actively building new bridges. From Hive bore holes to digging our own heads out of the sand, here at Hive Thrive we run the gamut!
Join us and see how you and other everyday hiveians can get involved and learn more about this multi-faceted Hive Blockchain ecosystem. All our shows are loaded with alpha info for any Hive enthusiast or noob looking to learn more!
If you missed any show. Thankfully @ecoinstant and @meno have 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 - (coming soon)
Episode 15. Hallman and mynewlife (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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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.
I guess I thought Curangel had stopped with the downvoting. I'm extremely disappointed to hear otherwise. 🤬
Here's the post where they announced.
https://peakd.com/hive-164833/@curangel/curangel-drops-the-sword
I would love to see these shows captured as videos and then use some DHF Funding to promote at other places - we need these visionary leaders of hive show up.
Great! You're hosting another very valuable guest for Hive. I'll try to be there in the evening. I attended the last show, but I couldn't stay for the whole show.
It's been a while since I've followed your posts, I hope to be able to participate and interact. The content is always top quality.
This can be a interesting episode!
Hope you deep dive into the last question, because we all need to join forces to help Hive.
I wish you success in your endeavors to help grow and develop Blockchain Hive.
Wow, the mind behind Curangel, it's like talking to Curangel in person.
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