I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1127 - More Pool Analysis, More Mega-Powerup Pool Shopping - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, August 28, 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 talked about how I had made the calculated decision to switch my $600 fiat investment, which is for my next mega-powerup of HIVE near the end of the year, and that I intend to grow in a diesel/liquidity pool with the best returns until it's needed, from the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.LTC pool to the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BTC pool, since the pool fees for the later pool are so much higher. Well, after watching and comparing the incoming fees with those from the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.LTC pool, it became obvious fairly quickly that the fees that I was earning were not quite as good, due to the higher pool liquidity, and my stake was less. That was not great news, but I have far better news to share this morning, after more pool analysis, and one more pool switch.

I don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier, but the SWAP.HIVE:DEC pool, which as I've mentioned previously, has the highest earned pool fees of all of them, and which has surprisingly low liquidity, was already earning me excellent pool fees on this account (I'm growing my HPUD year-end mega-powerup assets on @tydyn.rain to keep the funds separate, and to be able to better assess the pool fees), even with quite a low stake. Once I did realize that my earnings in this pool, with my $600 in liquidity, would very likely be extremely good, I watched the fees for the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BTC pool for a little bit longer, then a little after 10PM last night, I made the switch, and holy moly do I have some incredible data to share!

In one hour, my assets in SWAP.HIVE:DEC pool earned notably more pool fees than the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BTC pool did in 12 hours, which is extraordinary. With my $600 in liquidity, and with my requirement of growing my assets for my mega-powerup as quickly as possible, the bang for the buck in the SWAP.HIVE:DEC pool is just so much better, and as such that pool is the winner, and by a lot.

In almost 4 days, the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.LTC pool earned me 0.49616338 SWAP.HIVE/0.00079512 SWAP.LTC, while the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BTC pool earned me 0.03978195 SWAP.HIVE with a tiny bit of SWAP.BTC (the amount was too low for Tribaldex to give an accurate number) in 12 hours. As of this moment, and at the 12-hour mark, the SWAP.HIVE:DEC pool has earned me a whopping 0.30504931 SWAP.HIVE
84.27538074 DEC! By comparison, the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.LTC pool earned me 0.22145329 SWAP.HIVE/0.00033891 SWAP.LTC in 24 hours. That's a pretty big difference.

The SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.LTC and SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BTC pools are both still excellent in terms of pool fees, but they are better for long-term investments, not growing assets as quickly as possible, with me planning to invest large amounts into them again soon. I also intend to invest much more heavily in the SWAP.HIVE:DEC pool on this account, as I've never seen pool fees accrue, or my assets grow, so quickly. I'm certain that keeping my assets in this pool for the next 3 months will indeed give me a very solid boost to my end-of-year HPUD mega-powerup.

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, just after 1:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and straining and blending kefir in the Landing. When I had those completed, I took a quick asset management break up at the Flow House, then I went to work with Alex to cut 3 large, and 2 small pieces of tarp, to lay over the cane grass, that I had recently cut down with my machete, next to the Casbah, as a way to reclaim that section of land. Avi assisted with part of the process as well. Once we finally finished that, I stopped by the Landing to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with that in hand, I made my way back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done by a little after 9PM, and after some asset management (including my SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BTC-to-SWAP.HIVE:DEC pool swap), and a scan of my X feed, I went to bed just before 12AM. I woke up around 6AM, having slept fairly well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 11AM, so a wonderful 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, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version 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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