I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1122 - Next Fiat Hive Investment Initiated, and a Bit of BRO Swapped for LGN - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, August 23, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Well, it's done, my 5th external investment, which is my 3rd fiat investment into Hive, was initiated yesterday, which means that I should have $600 worth of SWAP.LTC in my wallet by this coming Saturday, August 30th. It feels really good to have finally gotten my next Hive-investment ball rolling. As I've been mentioning, as soon as the SWAP.LTC is received, I'll swap half of it for SWAP.HIVE, then use that to add the rest of the SWAP.LTC into the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.LTC diesel/liquidity pool, to earn pool fees for about three months, before I liquidate and convert it all to HIVE for my next mega-powerup near the end of the year. Step one that process has been completed.

I've also been talking in these posts about my dilemma with BRO and LGN, and my likely course of action in relation to it. I did end up finally swapping 3 BRO for close 118 LGN, though I had to do it 1 BRO per day, since there is not a lot of liquidity in the BRO:LGN pool. Even after only swapping 2 BRO, it increased my daily HIVE payouts for staked LGN from 0.009 HIVE to 0.013 HIVE, which is quite good, and which will really add up over time. I'm curious to see what this daily amount will be after the last BRO that I swapped last night.

In economic and investment terms, I should indeed swap more BRO for LGN, but there is something new that I just discovered that is making me pause with that idea. A few days ago, I began receiving daily HIVE payouts from the @pyresoul account, much to my happy confusion. I finally did some investigating, and I found that this account, and the daily HIVE payouts, were part of the BRO-LGN-CINE-GIFU project, as part of a fascinating new experimental initiative.

I'm still in the process of exploring the details, but basically those who interact with this project in any positive way, whether through delegations, holding their tokens, or even simply interacting in their discord server, will receive daily HIVE payouts. The more that I learn about this new initiative, the more interested I become.

The reason that I'm presently pausing my BRO-LGN swaps is because I'm now receiving extra HIVE daily not only for the LNG the that I have staked, but for my holding of BRO too, which compensates quite well for the disparity between the respective token values and their HIVE payouts. I'm looking forward to analyzing by how much my weekly and monthly HIVE income has increased from my larger amount of staked LGN, and from these new daily payouts (which are on par with my present LGN payouts) from @pyresoul, as time progresses.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, a little after 1:30PM, and while I had intended to take some photos for my posts first, the recent mental-emotional stress that I've been experiencing here at GaiaYoga made me forego that. Thankfully I still had enough photos already taken for two more days of posts. I ended up clearing and weeding the front planting bed at the head of the main GaiaYoga driveway with Avi, who has been very helpful and supportive with everything which had been happening here lately. When we finished there, we moved on to weeding in and around the garden bed in front of the Bedouin, though Avi had to redirect his energies elsewhere, due to other obligations, soon after starting there. I took a short break when Avi left, to take a shower, then to meet up with my crypto-loving jungle neighbor to give him my good chunk of cash to swap for LTC. When that was completed, I went to do a bit more weeding in front of the Bedouin, after which I went to the Landing to make myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned mini beef patties with horseradish mustard), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand(s), I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done quite early, by around 9PM, and after some asset management, and a long scan of my X feed, I went to bed just before 12AM. I woke up about 7AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to the Landing to make my superfood fire coffee (some of which I dropped off to Soozi, which I've done every day for quite a long time now), then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12:45PM, so an excellent time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my other few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, straining and blending kefir, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression of these posts! 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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