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Man vs. Physics: The Power Grid Gets the Final Say

Hey everyone, I know when to admit defeat. For the last week, I have been fighting the good fight. I threw 80 CPU cores at a MongoDB restore. I wrote custom scr...

Swarm of Swarms #68 - Hive Development Updates for Week of December 29th, 2025

If you missed our earlier blog post, scroll to the bottom for an explanation of what a Swarm of Swarms is. --- This Week’s Developer Updates Six teams responded...

The Final Boss: When 80 Cores Meet the SATA Limit

Hey everyone, For those following along with my Hive-Engine restore adventures, here is the Monday morning status report. We threw everything at this problem to...

Restoring Hive-Engine Full-Node: How I Fought MongoDB's WiredTiger Throttle and Won

I thought this would be easy. I’m upgrading my Hive Engine node from "Lite" to "Full." I have the hardware to make this trivial: a Dual Xeon Gold server boastin...

Supercharging Debian: Moving /var to SSD (and Fixing My Own Screw-ups)

Hey everyone, I finally upgraded my server with a dedicated SSD for /var. The goal was simple: production databases need room to breathe, and I wanted the magic...

MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847): A breakdown for Hive Engine Operators

Hey everyone, A new Critical Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) is making the rounds in the database world. Dubbed MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847), this exploit allows at...

What was once a Dreamr... Back in Beta

This is an informal announcement of a "posting app" that lets people manage HIVE accounts securely in groups and allows new authors/users to submit posts withou...

Farming as Restoration

A long time ago, when I got started in this game, there was some idea that "conservation" and "agriculture" were mutually exclusive. But that all changed with t...

Holiday Check-in: 500k IPs, Bug Fixes, and The Botnet That Won't Quit

Hey everyone, A couple of things before I disappear for a few days (Maybe??) re: The 100K IP Botnet (Update: It's Worse) Maybe they read this blog? Because ever...

The 100,000+ IP Question: Why is a Massive Botnet Obsessed with Old Blockchain Data?

Hey everyone, I usually write posts sharing cool technical implementations or updates on my projects. Today's post is a bit different. It's a detective story, a...

Hive-Nectar & Nectarengine v0.2.x Released!

Hey everyone, Today I want to officially announce that the v0.2.x series of hive-nectar and nectarengine are live! After much testing, crushing bugs, and modern...

Nectar v0.2.X has begun it's final test

Hey everyone, I just put the dev branch v0.2.0 on the @steembasicincome production server. Fingers crossed. 🤞 So far so good, it's completed a few rounds and j...

Swarm of Swarms #65 - Hive Development Updates for Week of December 8th, 2025

If you missed our earlier blog post, scroll to the bottom for an explanation of what a Swarm of Swarms is. --- This Week’s Developer Updates Six teams responded...

Fixing Tools and Claiming Account Tokens

Hey everyone, One downside of building so many toys is forgetting to check on them. Recently, @ecoinstant wanted to finally publicly announce our tools page: to...

24hr Sprint - hive-nectar v0.2.0 - still in the oven

Hey everyone, The last 24 hours have been a sprint. While working on a separate project, I implemented no less than four critical fixes to the hive-nectar v0.2....

Restoring the road - locally community continues to build their own road!

There is an interesting thing about living in a rural area. All at once you are surrounded by so much biodiversity, as well as so many challenges. Living in the...

Do you know about Tools.Crypto-Dreamr.Com? Standalone tools for power users

We have worked very hard this year around the HIVE platform. We made some noise, did some experiments, learned some things, met some people, visited some places...

Restoration Agriculture in Lot: Tangara1 of Buena Vista Farm, Colombia

About the Author Alex Trapp - Tropical high-mountain agroforestry and productive ecological restoration in Líbano, Tolima, Colombia. Here is an example of our a...

Nectarengine v0.2.0 release candidate

Hey everyone, Following the hive-nectar update, I am also releasing a nectarengine v0.2.0 branch. I modernized the codebase to use httpx instead of requests and...

Emergent Complexity

What is Hive SBI? Hive Stake Based Income (Hive SBI) is an account-based curation program. You sponsor accounts for regular ongoing curation, and then you recei...