primerz 3Speak Podcast

Pixa 🔥🖤 is looking for witnesses and friends

primerz — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:06:43 GMT

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=primerz/pixa-is-looking-for-witnesses
Hi Hive, @primerz again! A little while ago I introduced Pixa, [the pixel-art sibling of Hive](https://ecency.com/@primerz/welcome-to-pixa-hive-s-cd8a9887651c8). Today I have a simple ask: we’re looking for witnesses and community members. [](https://play.3speak.tv/embed?v=primerz/u4t60h5b) This video is creepy, it's because of Halloween coming soon.

🛠️ Witnesses wanted

Pixa has 21 witness seats, and 8 are producing blocks today. If you’ve run a Hive node before, you’ll feel right at home. It’s the same hived lineage (1.28.7) with a few tweaks for art. *

Hardware: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB disk

Setup: two containers

Guide: pixa.org/witness, one command at a time

More independent witnesses means a stronger chain that doesn’t depend on any single team, including ours.

🎨 Community members wanted too

You don’t need a server to help: *

Artists: post pixel art, or turn a photo into pixel art with the built-in converter

Curators: vote for work you like. Curation is rewarded.

Helpers: welcome newcomers and answer questions

Everyone: voting for witnesses is free and shapes who runs the chain

👋 A few friends from Hive

I’d love to hear from some people who’ve made this ecosystem what it is: @arcange @good-karma @ausbitbank @abit @neoxian No pressure, just an open door. 🙂

🔗 Links

App: pixagram.com

Developers & witnesses: pixa.org

Code (MIT): github.com/pixagram-blockchain

Thanks for reading, and see you on both chains!

Welcome to Pixa: Hive's younger sibling, where the picture lives in the block

primerz — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:59:26 GMT

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=primerz/welcome-to-pixa-hive-s-c9e21859ad1ee
Hello, photographers of Hive, and welcome to Pixa: a younger sibling of this chain, built for one job Hive was never designed to do. It keeps the picture itself inside the block. [](https://play.3speak.tv/embed?v=primerz/vm3r3uuw) Hive knows forks better than most chains; it was born from one in March 2020. So let me be plain: Pixa forks Hive's software, not its chain, its accounts or its balances. It isn't an official Hive project; it's family, running the same engine for a different job. Where your photos actually live ------------------------------- When you publish on Hive, your words go into a block and stay there. Your photos don't: they're uploaded to an image host, and the post carries a link. For a 20-megapixel file that's the right design, because no block could hold it. The cost is that each picture lasts only as long as someone keeps that server running. Scroll far enough back through old posts and you'll meet the grey box where a photo used to be. Pixa makes the opposite trade-off. Its transactions can be twice as large as Hive's, up to 128 KiB, so the image itself fits inside the post. It's stored as base64 PNG, WebP or SVG: no link, no image host, nothing to expire. The catch: 128 KiB won't hold your full-resolution work. It holds pixel art, about a hundred times lighter than a photo; a typical 2 MB photo comes out at around 19 KB. That's why Pixa is a pixel-art network, and why it starts with photographers: you already own the best raw material. What will feel familiar ----------------------- If you know Hive, you already know most of Pixa. Pixa is the chain, like Hive; Pixagram ([pixagram.com](https://pixagram.com)) is the app, like PeakD or Ecency. Pixa's six public API nodes are open to anyone, so nothing stops someone from building another app on the same chain. * **Same engine.** Pixa runs a fork of hived: blocks every three seconds, signed by up to 21 witnesses elected by stake-weighted vote. * **Proof-of-Brain.** Authors and curators are paid from the chain's inflation, and votes are weighted by staked tokens. * **Free posting.** Resource credits recharge on their own; you never pay a fee to publish. * **A chronological feed.** Following someone is delivery, not a ranking signal: you get every post they make. That's why we call Pixagram the anti-social media network: it refuses to farm you. * **The keys you're used to.** A posting key can post, vote and follow but can't move funds; the active key handles transfers. * **A community fund.** Hive has the DHF; Pixa has the DPF, spent only through proposals that stakeholders vote on. The three tokens map one to one:

On Hive	On Pixa	What it does
HIVE	PIXA	The liquid token; most rewards are paid in it
Hive Power	PIXA Power	Staked PIXA; weights your votes, including witness and proposal votes
HBD	PXS (Pixa Supra)	Worth one Big Mac by convention

What's different ---------------- **Holding earns nothing.** Pixa sets both of Hive's passive-yield levers to zero: no interest on the stable unit, no payout for simply holding staked tokens. Rewards go only to people who post, curate or produce blocks. If HBD savings are your favourite part of Hive, Pixa will disappoint you, and that's deliberate. **The stable unit is a Big Mac.** PXS is worth one Big Mac by convention. Witnesses publish its price feed every hour from the US price in The Economist's Big Mac index, which the magazine has run since 1986. It isn't a stablecoin claiming a reserve; it's a unit of account anyone can check at a counter. **A fresh start: new names, new keys.** Pixa began from its own genesis block on 4 September 2026, and no Hive accounts or balances came with it. Your Hive name isn't reserved there: usernames are first-come and can't be reassigned. Pixagram creates new keys on your device (public keys start with PIX instead of STM), encrypted behind a PIN, and never needs your Hive keys. **The founding treasuries never vote.** The team and company allocations sit in restricted accounts that cast no votes: not for witnesses, not on proposals, not on posts. Hive was born from a fight over stake and witness votes, so this felt like the first rule to get right. **Copies are caught before minting.** The app compares each new artwork with what's already on-chain, using perceptual hashing, and catches duplicates before they're minted. It can only check against what's there, so the best protection for your work is your own version, posted first. Why we're starting with photographers ------------------------------------- Pixel art is a hard composition test. Shrink a photograph to a small grid and a handful of colours, and the detail falls away; what survives is light, shape and balance. Strong photographs make strong pixel art, which is why this community is the first we wanted to invite. Pixagram turns any photo into pixel art in three clicks, free. For portraits there's also an [AI converter](https://huggingface.co/spaces/primerz/face-to-pixel-art-4K) built on SDXL with InstantID face preservation: a photo with a face becomes 4K pixel art that still looks like the person. Nothing you upload to it is stored. What I won't promise -------------------- I won't tell you where PIXA will trade, that you'll earn a lot, or that your work will sell. Pixa is a month old, nine of its 21 witness seats are filled ([live status](https://pixa.org/activity.html)), and the feed is still young. That cuts both ways: fewer readers than Hive for now, and far more say in what the place becomes. What I can promise is the plumbing. The picture is in the block, posting is free, and the code is open source at [github.com/pixagram-blockchain](https://github.com/pixagram-blockchain). The chain is public too, so you don't have to take my word for how any of it works. Start in a few minutes ---------------------- 1. Open [pixagram.com](https://pixagram.com) and claim a username. Pixagram offers 250 free accounts a day, and names go to whoever asks first. 2. Turn one of your photos into pixel art and keep the version you like. 3. Post it. Three seconds later it's in a block. 4. Vote for three artists. Curation is rewarded here too, as on Hive. 5. Add Pixagram to your phone's home screen from the browser. It's a web app, so there's no app store in between. If you run a Hive witness, most of what you know carries over. A Pixa witness is two containers on a small server (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB disk), and the [witness guide](https://pixa.org/witness.html) goes from an empty machine to block production one command at a time. Developers will find the libraries, node guides and API endpoints at [pixa.org](https://pixa.org). Not goodbye, Hive ----------------- Keep posting your photographs here. Hive is where full-resolution work belongs, and communities like this one are a big reason the Steem and Hive family has lasted ten years. Pixa is for the version of your picture that's small enough to live inside a block. Same family, different job. See you in both feeds. — Matias (@primerz), building on Steem and Hive since 2016

Welcome to Pixa, Hive's sibling chain

primerz — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:46:02 GMT

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[](https://play.3speak.tv/embed?v=primerz/1255k8lj) Hi HiveDevs 👋 Some of us have been building on Steem and then Hive since 2016. Today we'd like to introduce a sibling chain: **Pixa**, the blockchain behind [**Pixagram.com**](https://pixagram.com), a social network for pixel art. Pixa is a fork of hived. It runs **1.29.0**, built on upstream **hived 1.28.7**, and its genesis block was on **4 September 2026**. If you can build on Hive, you can already build on Pixa. The APIs, operations and tooling are the same. Only a few things were renamed or retuned. ### What stays the same * DPoS consensus, with 3-second blocks and up to 21 elected witnesses * Resource credits, so posting is free * The usual APIs: `condenser_api`, `database_api`, `bridge`, `follow_api` and `tags_api` * The same backend stack: HAF, Hivemind, Jussi and `cli_wallet` * The HF21 reward curves (`convergent_linear` for authors, `convergent_square_root` for curators) * A proposal fund that works exactly like Hive's DHF ### What's different

	Hive	Pixa
Liquid token	HIVE	PIXA
Stable unit	HBD (pegged to USD)	PXS, worth one Big Mac by convention
Staked token	VESTS	VESTS
Key prefix	`STM`	`PIX`
Chain ID	`beeab0de00…`	`706978616772616d00…` ("pixagram")
Max transaction size	64 KiB	128 KiB
`custom_json` payload	8 KiB	64 KiB
Interest on the stable unit	set by witnesses	locked at 0 in consensus
Vesting reward share	15%	0%
Inflation split (content / proposal fund / witnesses / vesting)	65 / 10 / 10 / 15	70 / 15 / 15 / 0
Curation share	50%	40%
Proposal fund	DHF, `hive.fund`	DPF, `pixa.omnibus` (no keys)

**Why the changes?** On Pixagram, the images themselves are stored on-chain as base64 PNG, WebP or SVG, not as links. That's why the transaction and `custom_json` limits are doubled or larger. The monetary policy is also deliberate: there is **zero passive yield**. Holding PIXA or PXS earns nothing. Only producing blocks, posting and curating do. ### Porting your Hive code * **Endpoints:** `api.pixagram.com`, `merlion.surf`, `blockforge.lol`, `pixarex.net`, `boitata.quest` and `pixa-dubai.xyz`. All six serve the same Hive-compatible JSON-RPC, with CORS open. * **Client library:** use `@pixagram/dpixa`. It's our chain client for Node and the browser, and Hive's dhive users will find it familiar. You can also keep your current library if you set the chain ID and the `PIX` prefix. * **Asset symbols:** send `PIXA` and `PXS` in legacy asset strings. NAI-format assets work as they are. * **Field names:** the public endpoints return `pxs_balance`, `reward_pixa` and similar names instead of the `hbd_*` and `*_hive` fields. * **No testnet:** `pixagram.dev` is the app's canary build, and anything you broadcast through it is real. bash ``` curl -s -X POST https://api.pixagram.com -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"condenser_api.get_version","params":[],"id":1}' ``` ### About the genesis stake The question every Hive dev will ask first is who holds the stake. Pixa started with no liquid PIXA. All 100M VESTS at genesis went to two accounts: * `pixa.rex` received 75M * `pixa.team` received 25M Both accounts are 3-of-3 multisig, and **consensus code welds them shut**. They cannot vote on content, vote for witnesses, set a proxy, post or broadcast `custom_json`. The only thing either account can do with its funds is transfer VESTS to another account. We designed it this way after what happened to Steem. ### Run a witness Nine witnesses are in the schedule today, so the field is wide open. * **Witness:** 2 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 50 GB of disk, set up with one Docker Compose file. * **Full API node:** 4 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 100 GB of disk. * **Guide:** [https://pixa.org/witness.html](https://pixa.org/witness.html) ### Links * Developer site: [https://pixa.org](https://pixa.org) * Code (MIT): [https://github.com/pixagram-blockchain](https://github.com/pixagram-blockchain) * npm libraries: `@pixagram` * Docker images: `pixadock` * App: [https://pixagram.com](https://pixagram.com) * `SKILL.md` for AI agents: [https://pixa.org/skill/SKILL.md](https://pixa.org/skill/SKILL.md) Everything that works on Pixa works because of what the Hive core developers built. So consider this an open door: fork our fork, port your tools, run a node, and come say hi. Welcome, siblings. 🟪

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primerz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:45:14 GMT

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