HiveBits founder Nemanja on tackling the main risk in beekeeping with a data-driven approach "Our main risk in beekeeping, as in every other farming, is the weather. And the funny thing is, we found a way with other partners who have weather stations to predict where it's best for us to move our beehives to maximize the harvest for this year." "Practically, we're going into data-driven beekeeping. We're not going to make our decisions by feeling, we'll make our decisions purely based on the data. When we plan to drive our beehives to acacia, which is probably one of the most popular honeys here, with all this data we can predict where it's optimal, regarding the weather, the rain, the humidity." "Why do we have the Nectar token? Because every flower gives nectar, and bees collect the nectar. But for every specific tree or plant, there are specific weather conditions when that plant gives the most nectar. Temperature, humidity, whether it rains or not." "I think what we're doing is moving beekeeping to the next level." FT @0xBeeSmart @hivebits_io

HiveBits founder Nemanja says six to seven out of ten jars of honey in retail are fake "One of the problems in beekeeping is a trust problem, and crypto was built to solve this trust problem. When you buy honey you don't know what you're buying, especially in retail, because all research shows that six to seven out of ten jars of honey in retail are fake honey." "What we want to achieve is that tomorrow, when you buy a jar of honey from HiveBits or a beekeeper on our network, you're 100% sure what you get at your table, because we're talking about food." "Fake honey is mostly synthetic honey produced in China, or some beekeepers mix sugar syrup with the honey. So you buy a jar of honey, but 50 to 60% of it is just sugar syrup." "I actually keep one jar I bought in Dubai, and half of it is syrup and half of it is honey. I keep it to show people, okay, this is fake honey, and this is how it looks." FT @0xBeeSmart @hivebits_io

HiveBits founder Nemanja says their hardware lifts production up to 50%, and the marketplace solves the distribution problem beekeepers have "Our internal tests show that a beehive on hardware produces up to 50% more. What that means in money we don't know, because every beekeeper is different." "Most beekeepers right now do beekeeping as a side job, and most of these people are already retired. They do it as a hobby, and they always have the same problem. They don't know how to distribute their own product, because they don't have marketing skills, they don't have sales skills, they just rely on a really small local community." "In my case I don't have that issue, because we run an apitherapy center, we know how to do online sales, we know how to do marketing. People come to our apitherapy center from everywhere, from Israel, from Sweden, from the United States, from Canada." "So what we're going to offer them. First, hardware to help them optimize their work, and of course the marketplace where they can sell their own products. And for us it's good, because we're always going to take a cut of every sale that goes through our platform." FT @0xBeeSmart @hivebits_io

In Sylvania, Ohio, a solar array is helping turn energy savings into community service. The Sisters of St. Francis are channeling long-term savings from their 475-kW solar installation — featuring solar modules donated by First Solar — directly into the ministries that define their mission: supporting domestic violence survivors, nursing care, counseling for children, a community garden, and beekeeping. Every kilowatt-hour produced is an investment in a neighbor. See how First Solar's innovative solar technology is helping power a mission of service. 📽️ #AmericasSolarCompany# #SolarEnergy# #CommunityImpact#

There’s a whole community buzzing at the Obama Presidential Center. 🐝 In honor of National Honey Bee Day, meet Janelle, program manager for Westside Bee Boyz and one of the resident beekeepers caring for two colonies of Italian honeybees on campus. Inside every colony, everyone has a role — from worker and nursery bees helping care for the hive to the queen, who can lay thousands of eggs each day. And as Janelle reminds us, honey bees are a matriarchal society — something that has taught her firsthand about the value of female-led spaces. The story extends beyond the hive, too. Native bees help pollinate plants behind roughly one in three bites of food we eat, which is one reason the native plants growing across campus matter so much. Here’s to the bees, the people who care for them, and the ecosystems they help sustain. Happy National Honey Bee Day. 🐝🌼 #NationalHoneyBeeDay# #ObamaPresidentialCenter# #Pollinators# #Beekeeping#