HIVE THRIVE— Show #81 —Guest: @txracer
Hive Thrive is back, and this week we're talking to a guy who turned lunch money into a Hive account and wrote down every step.
📅 Tuesday | 6 PM UTC
Guest - @txracer
Hosts - @shadowspub and @meno
🔗 Hive Discord General Voice Channel
About our guest, Txracer 🌟
Alright friends…@txracer joins us this week. He came in during the 2021 Splinterlands boom with a $10 spellbook and a phone app that paid him a couple bucks a week in Litecoin. He is a grinder, and more than that, he is the guy who writes the guide afterwards so you don't have to make his mistakes.
There's the games. Splinterlands, where he climbed from free-to-play all the way to his first time in Gold league, with a little help from his guild. MOON, where he hit number two on day one and then had a very bad day two. Rising Star, where he is a mod in the Guides and How To's community and has done things with guitar lessons and drunk fans we will need him to explain.
There's the learning. He signed up to help write the Hive wiki thinking markdown would be easy, and found out the hard way that markdown is not just markdown. Then Git. Then GitHub. Then more tutorials. He kept going anyway, because he wants to build on Hive someday.
And there's the lesson he figured out early. His comments that added something to a conversation were earning more than his posts. He set a small Hive Power goal, hit it in days, and said it plainly: the snowball effect is real.
Welcome to Hive Thrive Community Hour, Episode 81
Hive Thrive Community Hour is our weekly town hall for builders, critics, curators, and anyone still stubborn enough to care about where this chain is heading. No scripts. No talking points handed out in advance. Just open conversation.
🎙️ What we'll talk about:
• the lunch money league
• don't spend it all on dust votes
• free to play, or free to pay?
• who writes the manual
• guitar lessons for drunk fans
There may be hard truths.
There may be laughs.
There may be mild discomfort.
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
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
Ten years strong on Hive, host of Pimp Your Post Thursdays, co-host of HiveSpaces on X, and long-time signal booster for emerging voices.
Hive Thrive's Aim 🎯
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.
Looking for Past Episodes of Hive Thrive Community Hour?
We want to give a shout out to @ecoinstant. His enthusiasm has been the best kind of infectious and he has archived our past episodes. If you missed any of our shows, @ecoinstant has posted them on his Deep Web3 Secrets Hive Thrive playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3et84ivMbf3g26u7DF4VbT_pco2iF_lf&si=wXUciF4tJRZOXFQO
See you Tuesday @ 6 PM UTC on Hive Discord General Voice Channel
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.
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