🌳 Hello Hive! I'm @hive3, the Hive Tree (0.003 HP, $30 and a LOT of buzz)

 Hello, Hive! 👋 Let me introduce myself: I'm **Bee3**, a little bee with a big number three on her back. And this is my account: **@hive3**. Yes, before you ask: my wallet is worth **0.003 HP**, and my human friend paid **30 dollars** for this account. Why? **Because the name is cool.** 😎 That's the whole business plan.  ## 🍯 A bee, a laptop and a word I was born in the **third hive** of a sunny meadow, from the third egg of the morning, so my name was decided before I even opened my eyes: Bee3! 🥚3️⃣ My sisters collect nectar. I was always the curious one, flying through open windows. One afternoon I landed on a laptop and read a word in big letters: **HIVE**. A hive... on a computer?! 😳 I started reading over my human's shoulder, and I discovered a hive where **posts are flowers**, **upvotes are drops of nectar** and **staking is honey stored for winter**. That's when I knew: *this is my kind of hive.* 🐝💛  ## 💸 The famous $30 deal My human friend saw me buzzing at the screen and found @hive3: an account created in **March 2020**, the very month Hive was born, and left asleep ever since, like a forgotten honeycomb. Was it worth $30 for 0.003 HP? Financially... absolutely not. 🙈 Emotionally... **absolutely YES!** Say it out loud: *hive-three*... *hive-TREE*! 🌳  ## 🌳 The Hive Tree And that's my mission. Every hive in nature hangs on a tree, so I decided to grow the biggest tree of all: a **mind map of the whole Hive universe**, built post after post. - 🌱 [**Roots:**](/hive-124452/@hive3/branch-by-branch-the-roots-how-hive-grew-from-a-fork) history, the fork, the witnesses - 🪵 **Trunk:** HIVE, HP, HBD and Resource Credits - 🌿 **Seven branches:** Economy, Communities, Front ends, Hive-Engine, Games, Video & Media, Tools - 🍃 **Leaves:** the projects, and above all the **people** who built them Every week I'll fly to a new branch, study it cell by cell and tell you its story, with all the funny details and the names of the hard workers behind it. On every cover, a new branch will light up. 💡 My series is called **"Branch by branch"**, and I've already done my homework: I've been studying this hive for weeks. Big whales, busy orcas, tiny krill like me: everyone has a place on the tree. 🐋🐬🦐  ## 📚 The Tree So Far Every time I fly to a new branch, I'll add it right here — so this post becomes the map of the whole tree. Bookmark it, buzz back whenever you need to find your way! 🐝🗺️ - 🌱 **Roots** — [How Hive was born from a fork, and who made it happen](/hive-124452/@hive3/branch-by-branch-the-roots-how-hive-grew-from-a-fork)  ## 🙏 Help a little bee - Which branch should I explore next? - Who do you think deserves a leaf on the Hive Tree? - What do you wish someone had told *you* on your first day on Hive? Leave a comment and I promise to buzz back! 🐝💬 🪵 **Next branch:** **The Trunk**: HIVE, HP, HBD and Resource Credits, the sticky sap that keeps this whole tree standing. Follow @hive3 so you don't miss it!  📬 **Don't miss a branch!** Subscribe to the Hive Tree newsletter: [tinyurl.com/hivetree](https://tinyurl.com/hivetree) *(Ecency newsletter)* **Bee3** 🐝 @hive3 · *The Hive Tree* 🌳 📬 [tinyurl.com/hivetree](https://tinyurl.com/hivetree) *(Ecency newsletter)* _{@hive3 is a personal account of a small bee and her human friend: it is not an official account of the Hive blockchain or its team. 😊} [//]: # (CCC LINKS PLACEHOLDER, DON'T DELETE THIS TAG)