Hive Thrive is back, and this week we're talking to a witness who brings the spreadsheets.
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📅 Tuesday | 6 PM UTC
Guest - @seattlea
Hosts - @buttcoins and @meno
🔗 Hive Discord General Voice Channel
About our guest, Seattlea 🌟
Alright friends…@seattlea joins us this week. He has been on chain since August 2021. He is a numbers guy, and his posts are where he shows his work.
There's Splinterlands. He came in during the 2021 boom and stayed through the bust, and he tracked every bit of it. The card market falling from $280 million to under $45 million. Daily players dropping from 450,000 to about 4,000. And yet he is still here, three seasons straight in the Modern top 50, publishing his own card win rates. When a proposal came up to cap scholar accounts, he answered with a counterproposal of his own: don't restrict the ecosystem to fix the leaderboard, fix the leaderboard.
There's the infrastructure. He launched his Hive witness in early 2025 on the cloud, then moved it onto his own hardware for more control and less cost. He runs an SPS validator too. His witness tagline says it plainly: a witness that never powers his Hive down.
And there's the day job showing up on chain. A software engineer since 1999, now telling Hive that manual coding is dead. Not sure if that effects many of us, in the end your average joe just wants the app to work and the code is just the Voodoo gibberish behind it. He just started an agentic AI series on getting real work out of these tools without burning through your subscription. Plan with the expensive model, build with the cheap one.
Welcome to Hive Thrive Community Hour, Episode 76
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:
• joining at Splinterlands peak and only being born with only 10 fingers to plug the leaks
• who puts the leader in leaderboards
• why his witness got owned
• will Ai take our jobs or just out of excuses
• The frugal mans guide to AI on Hive
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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This post is ai assisted with @buttcoins and the show artwork is too
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