I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1027 - A Lovely XV-PWR Investment Surprise! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, May 20, 2025

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 6 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

In my post yesterday I mentioned that my XV investment, based on how I did it, did not turn out very well for me, mostly due to the price of the PWR token rising so notably, because I had intended to regain my former position in the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool. Well, I realized later that because the price of PWR rose so substantially, that I needed less of it to reclaim my previous pool stake (this makes sense of course, but it didn't occur to me so early in the morning...lol). Yeah, I didn't know that, but now I do. Instead of just letting the big chunk of PWR sit in my wallet, mostly doing nothing, and slowly adding it back into the pool over time, I decided to swap half of it to SWAP.HIVE, and then use that to add the other half of the PWR into the pool. To my utter astonished surprise, when I looked at my stake that I now had in the pool, I saw that it was 548.99672 shares, which far exceeded my prevous 519.45588 shares! Wowzers! So my XV investment turned out to be excellent leverage to strongly increse my stake in the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool! Brilliant!

This happened because I was only trying to acquire the same amount of PWR that I had removed from the pool, but because the price of PWR rose so much, I just needed less of it to reclaim my former pool position. So even though my total returns and profit from my XV investment were not as high as I'd hoped (HIVE outperformed the basket of 15 off-chain crypto assets in the last week, which cut into our returns and profits), my XV investment actually turned out great! Sure, I didn't have any SWAP.HIVE to boost my positions in the SWAP.HIVE:CENT and SWAP.HIVE:MEME pools, but I was able to grow my shares in another top-notch pool, and one that has one of the highest daily SWAP.HIVE reward payouts. Not bad at all!

Since PWR is such a high-value asset, presently 1.3 SWAP.HIVE/1 PWR, it takes quite a lot of SWAP.HIVE to add the daily rewards back into the pool, even with its high SWAP.HIVE payouts. To solve this issue, I've begun to swap half of the PWR that I receive each day into SWAP.HIVE, to then use it to add the unswapped portion of PWR back into the pool, and it works very well indeed. As such, my stake in the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool will keep increasing. I'm getting quite close to 550 shares in the pool, which is pretty exciting!

The reason that I was so intent on at least returning to my previous pool stake in the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool is because its daily payouts are so amazing, both in terms of SWAP.HIVE, as well as PWR itself, which is a very valuable asset that can be easily swapped for SWAP.HIVE whenever needed, so it's doubly handy! While I have pretty large stake in several pools, this pool is still where I have the most, and for good reason!

Now just to reclaim my former positions in the SWAP.HIVE:CENT, SWAP.HIVE:MEME, PHOTO:MEME, and SWAP.HIVE:PHOTO pools, all of which are fantastic pools in rewards, and/or fees. There are lots of great pools, but some are exceptionally profitable indeed. I add and remove assets from pools all the time, both to leverage and reallocate, and in this process I've gained much greater clarity on which pools are better than others, especially at diffent level of stake. The deeper that I go into investing into diesel/liquidity pools, the more that I receive in return, both in daily rewards and in fees, so my assets grow quickly there. I'm bananas about pools for a reason!

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, once I had finished up my Hive tasks, around 2:30PM, and although I had intended to allocate time to some photography for my posts, the sun was not cooperating very well, so I bounced back and forth between taking photos and collecting cow food. Once I finally had both completed, I strained and blended kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing, and then I made myself some food (ground beef, eggs, pepperjack cheese, red onions, tomatoes, pickles, and sea salt), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand, I headed back to the Flow House, to hop into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I had to pause that because Iolanthe came up to the Flow House to very strongly implore me to make her some food (she's not my child, but I help her with food periodically). Although I was cozy, and it was raining, I finally accepted her request. Once I had food for her made, I finished a frozen fruit smoothie that she could not finish, and then I returned to the Flow House to get back to Hive. I had quite a lot of notifications again, and I wasn't able to get through them all before I had to stop around 11PM, to get my Shadow Hunters Contest entry set to write in the morning, to do some asset management, and then to head to bed just after 12AM. I woke up around 7:30AM, having slept fairly well, doing more asset management, getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, returning to the Flow House to write and publish My Entry for Shadow Hunters Community Contest/Show Me a Shadow: Round 374 - Ti Shadows, and the to begin on this post. It's now just after 11:45AM, so a marvelous time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before preparing for a session at 1:30PM. I appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration of this post! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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