HIVE THRIVE Community Hour feat. @SagarKothari88! 🎬

The Who

🌟 Guest — @sagarkothari88
🎙 Hosts — @buttcoins & @meno

The When & Where

📅 Tuesday, 7 July | 6 PM UTC
🔗 Hive Discord General Voice Channel

About our guest, Sagar 🌟

Alright friends…this Tuesday we're welcoming one of the busiest builders on this entire chain — @sagarkothari88!

He's the developer behind the 3Speak mobile app, Distriator, Check in With XYZ, and now HiveSuite — and he ships updates almost every single day. On top of that, he personally runs 12 video encoder nodes that process the majority of 3Speak's daily videos, paying the bandwidth, electricity, and maintenance out of his own pocket.

He joined Hive in November 2021 and famously posted his early app updates through the unfinished app itself. His changelog was the demo. Four years later, if you've watched a video, claimed a Distriator discount, or checked in somewhere on Hive — you've probably touched something Sagar built.

With @sagarkothari88 we'll be talking about the daily-shipping grind, what it actually costs to keep decentralized video alive, and how you onboard an entire country when the word "crypto" means "scam."

Welcome to Hive Thrive Community Hour, Episode 64

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. Hive Thrive is where we slow things down, ask the questions, and let ideas breathe in real time. No scripts. No talking points handed out in advance. Just open conversation about Hive, its culture, its economics, its users and its future.

🎙️ What we'll talk about:
• What it takes to ship Hive apps every single day without burning out
• Who really pays for decentralized infrastructure (spoiler: sometimes one guy in India)
• Onboarding Bharat 🇮🇳 — pitching Hive without triggering the "crypto scam" alarm
• HiveSuite: one super-app to rule them all, or one app too many?
• And why "Stronger Together" isn't just a catchphrase when you power up strangers

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
Eight years strong on Hive, host of Pimp Your Post Thursdays, co-host of HiveSpaces on X, and long-time signal booster for emerging voices.

@alessandrawhite
Hive Conference Speaker, founding host of the Daily @creativeworkhour, clarinetist, industrial designer, & hardcore Hive Meetup junkie since 2022.

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 YouTube Channel

See you Tuesday, July 7th @ 6 PM UTC on Hive Discord General Voice Channel

Tune in to hear real conversations about how Hive works, where it struggles, and where it's heading. Whether you've been here for years or just arrived, Hive Thrive Community Hour is built to help you understand the layers of this ecosystem and figure out where you fit within it.

This spirit of coming together to share and engage has been inspiring and seems a vital step to continuing the Hive blockchain growth and success!

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.

🏡 Join the Hive Thrive community —
@hive-170475

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