HIVE THRIVE - Show #68 - Guest @pharesim

HIVE THRIVE Community Hour feat. @Pharesim! 🎬

The Who

🌟 Guest — @pharesim

🎙 Hosts — @buttcoins & @shadowspub

The When & Where

📅 Tuesday | 6 PM UTC

🔗 Hive Discord General Voice Channel

About our guest, Pharesim 🌟

Alright friends…on Tuesday we are welcoming someone who’s been in the trenches since April 2016 — @pharesim!

He’s a top 20 witness who actually ships things — HiveComb, a new content-discovery frontend, a revived hiveinvite.com, ongoing tax-report tooling the whole chain leans on come filing season.

He also runs @curangel, a major curation initiative that manually rewards quality content and isn’t afraid to downvote reward-pool abuse when it finds it.

Self-described as an “anarchist without adjectives,” pharesim doesn’t shy away from stirring things up! He’s pro- PEVO, so much so that he launched a publishing and evaluation beta site.

With @pharesim we’ll be talking about what a top 20 witness actually does for the chain, the line between onboarding and extraction, and why dhf accountability is such a struggle to to achieve, even when everyone seems to agree it’s needed.

Welcome to Hive Thrive Community Hour, Episode 68

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:

• Does a top 20 witness actually owe the chain anything beyond running a node

• What it takes to build real infrastructure on Hive instead of just talking about it

• Perception vs. reality — does it matter if the “cabal” narrative is even true?

• Why so few top 20 witnesses post, engage, or explain what they’re doing

• The line between real onboarding and pure extraction

• Whether an accountability coalition among HP holders could actually work

• Does he mind being called a PEVO

• What @curangel actually does, and whether manual curation still works at scale

• What DHF accountability could even look like if done right

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

10 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 YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3et84ivMbf3g26u7DF4VbT_pco2iF_lf&si=wXUciF4tJRZOXFQO

See you Tuesday @ 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

This post is co-authored with @buttcoins and the show artwork is created by @buttcoins with the assistance of Meta AI.

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