I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1237 - Hive Debt Up, HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price Down, and My HBD-in-Savings Withdrawal Coming Shortly! - Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, December 16, 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 7 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 18.80%!!!

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.089 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.932 USD

ALIVE Price in SWAP.HIVE: 0.04778624 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00137343 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.1918 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 86,062.75 USD

LTC/Litecoin: 76.425 USD 

Gold: 4,340.00 USD 

Silver: 66.73 USD

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #152 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#114 (among active witnesses only)/212.3K in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

The Hive Debt has started to rise pretty notably once again, unfortunately, with it being 18.01% yesterday, and up to 18.80% today. Along with this the fiat-dollar price of HIVE has fallen yet again, to under $0.09. This really isn't good, but at least at these prices converting or swapping HBD to HIVE would net quite a substantial amount of HIVE indeed.

I'm about 32 hours away from claiming my last round of interest for my HBD in Savings, and with it achieving my 2025 Hive Goal of 600 HBD in Savings. As I've been mentioning, as soon as I claim this last round of Savings interest, I'm very likely (I still have a lot of reticence in doing so) going to withdraw all my HBD from Savings, which will be 602+ HBD, convert it to HIVE, which at the present prices would give me about 6,260+ HIVE, and then power it up on the January HPUD, which as I've said will be my largest of three mega-powerups to date.

A guestimation of where I'll be after I power up this big chunk of HIVE on January 1st is approximately 22,000+ Hive Power, which is quite a lovely leap, I must say, and not a bad way at all to start the new year (at least in terms of the misaligned and inaccurate 12-month Julian calendar). While it's going to be weird not having any HBD in Savings, or adding to it daily as I've done for almost 4+ years now, I keep getting the feeling that this is my best course of action at this time. If and when the Hive Debt and the fiat-dollar price of HIVE improve, I will probably begin growing HBD in Savings once more.

The next and last round of interest to be claimed for the HBD in Savings on @aliveandthriving will be in 4 days, which should give us about 80 HBD, and just like my own account, I'll be withdrawing that HBD from Savings, swapping it for HIVE, which at the present prices would give us about 850+ HIVE, and then that will be added to the amount of HIVE that we distribute over the course of the next year in the ALIVE dividends and to our HP delegators, in addition to the regular amount that we distribute each week. So a very nice payout boost is coming quite soon.

Our @aliveandmmb witness has successfully produced and signed another block, so 4 total as of today, which is very good indeed, especially for a witness still so low in the ranking. If you support what the We Are Alive Tribe and the MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) Project do, as we build mutually-beneficial systems for all of us, then I strongly encourage you vote for our witness. While Hive is in a very precarious situation as of late, things in the We Are Alive Tribe are thankfully going quite well overall, and I'm determined to make it even better for all of us, one day, and one step, at a time, with my eyes locked on that target.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little before 2:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. I mentioned yesterday that I wasn't feeling well the day before, and unfortunately that carried over into yesterday as well, and which I noticed strongly when I tried to do some work (collecting 10 gallons of soil for my nursery). I started to get a very strong migraine-like headache on the right side of my head, and my body started to feel weak and wobbly again. This made it basically impossible to get any more work done, including most of my evening Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, aside from doing my comment moderation for @aliveandthriving, and a little asset management. I just couldn't stare at a screen for very long at all. The symptoms indicated a possible rat-lungworm infection, which I had experienced one time previously, many years ago, just after coming to GaiaYoga (it was 2-3 weeks of hell). Rat lungworm is an unpleasant parasitic worm that burrows into the spinal cord and brain, causing all sorts of problems, and that is usually contacted from unwashed fruits and greens that have come in contact with snails or slugs. While I nibble on plants and fruits all the time, I'm always very careful about exactly what I'm eating. As I waited for the Albendazole (the usual cure for rat lungworm) to be located, toward the end of the night, because the pain would have made sleeping difficult, I mustered the energy and focus to collect snd make myself some very strong tea of Chinese rainbells (Strobilanthes Hamiltoniana), a plant that I had brought to GaiaYoga many years ago, which has strongly anti-nematodal properties. After making and drinking my tea, I went to bed around 10:30PM. I woke up around 7:30AM, having slept reasonably well, and feeling better thankfully, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. I still have a mild headache, but I do feel a lot stronger and more balanced in my body. I'll likely take a dose of Albendazole later today. It's now just before 12:30PM, so it's quite a good time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before leaving the Flow House, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then, hopefully, on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrrow's iteration 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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