HIVE THRIVE - Show #68 - Guest @pharesim
Published on HivePostify by @buttcoins · Mon Aug 03 2026
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](http://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.
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