I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1239 - All 3 Primary 2025 Hive Goals Achieved, HBD Withdrawal Initiated, and BPUD Today! - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, December 18, 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: 19.63%!!!
HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.090 USD
HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.970 USD
ALIVE Price in SWAP.HIVE: 0.03753942 SWAP.HIVE
BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00144293 USD
QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.1867 USD
BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 88,081.80 USD
LTC/Litecoin: 77.735 USD
Gold: 4,340.00 USD
Silver: 67.11 USD
Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #152 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#114 (among active witnesses only)/212,509.222 HP in votes
Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
I'm happy to say that, as of last night, I've achieved and exceeded all 3 of my primary 2025 Hive Goals, 15,000 Hive Power (15,146.961 HP today), 72 Reputation (72.47 Reputation today), and last but not least, 600 HBD in Savings, which I surpassed yesterday evening with the claiming of my last round of Savings interest. As soon as I claimed my interest, I took a screenshot, then I initiated the 3-day withdrawl of the total amount of 603.009 HBD.
Since HBD is Hive debt, basically a HIVE IOU, I've come to think of it kind of like a HIVE slingshot; we can only keep pulling it back (increasing the HBD in circulation and in Savings) so far, before we need to let it go, and turn it back into HIVE and Hive Power. I pulled my slingshot back quite a good way, and now it's time to use it to launch me several thousand HP, somewhere between 6,000 and 7,000, beyond where I find myself today.
I'll just say that my January HPUD powerup is going to be quite large indeed, and my biggest mega-powerup so far, by more than double. When all is said and done, I'll be somewhere around 22,000 Hive Power. I'll certainly be putting that to good use.
The Hive Debt is now close to 20%, and if measures are not taken very soon to get it under control, then HBD will lose its peg with the Dollar, it will decrease in value, and the interest for HBD in Savings will be lowered, or even halted for a time. To say that I am still very concerned for our Blockchain Ecosystem is an understatement. We're in dangerous waters.
The December BPUD (BBHO Powerup Day) is tomorrow, though for my time zone it arrives by 2PM, so I'll be powering up my almost 900 liquid BBHO, and writing a post about it, at some point in the early evening. It's excellent to see ALIVE now being distributed in the Saturday drips for BBHO, though I'm sad that there are no other useful and valuable tokens presently being sent with it. I really miss DUO in the drips, that's for sure. All good. Things change and shift all the time, with me adapting, improvising, and overcoming the best I can as I go.
Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first, and with that completed to my satisfaction, a quick food-supply run to Tutu's for the Landing. Before beginning land work, I decided to finally buzz my head and face with my electric hair clippers, as I was looking like quite the wild jungle man indeed. Once I had that done, I took a quick asset management break up at the Flow House, before undertaking the formidable multi-hour task of removing a huge amount of vegetation that had grown onto the tarp that was covering a storage area next to the Landing. In the process, I cut and collected a very large pile of longevity spinach (Gynura procumbens) that was mixed in with a whole lot of vines and bamboo. Longevity spinach is an excellent nutrient-dense green that grows very well here, so I want to make sure that as much of this large pile gets planted as possible. After I finally successfully finished that monumental endeavor, I took a shower, made myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned mini beef patties, pepperjack cheese, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough) in the Landing, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by around 9PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by about 10:30PM. I woke up a bit after 7AM, having slept well (though still feeling a little off, with pressure in my head), 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 12:15PM, so it's quite a marvelous 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 a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my BPUD post later this evening, and the next incarnation of these posts tomorrow! 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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Waoh, done and dusted. I like that spirit, keep it up boss.
!ALIVE
!HBIT
!INDEED
Thank you very much, my friend, and everything came together perfectly, and exactly when it was needed, for which I'm super grateful. You know it, I couldn't stop even if I tried. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!ALIVE
!INDEED
!ZOMBIE
!BBH
Awesomely abundant avalanches of thanks, Bradley! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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!BBH
Is the first picture lichens? Looks very interesting!
Yes, it is indeed, my friend, it's one of the many species of lichens that is very common here. Don't they? I agree, which is why I find myself taking photos of them so often! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!ALIVE
!BBH
Sad if this trend of the Hive price crashing like this, i am not really sure i understand why this would happen or how this can be fixed to be honest even if many of us withdraw HBD?
Someone or some peoples on Hive, absolutely pointing a finger at all these whales right now, as they would be the most likely candidates for some kind of embezzlement on the platform.
They are the only ones with power on Hive it is essentially their platform because of the way Hive is structured.
If not it has been badly managed and set up from the get go as this is beyond market activity.
Something is off about all this and the truth will be exposed let's hope it is not too late.
Developers and project managers should seriously start investigating or there will be nothing left.
Great job on your goals my friend
@tydynrain
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!ALIVE
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I very much agree, @benthomaswwd, and it's a bugger of a situation. Between out-of-control DHF spending, and whales unloading huge amounts of HIVE on exchanges, it's true, us withdrawing HBD, swapping, and powering up HIVE is really just a drop in an ocean. Yes, you're right, the whales control the blockchain, and you're also right that our economy has been managed very poorly indeed. Hive is excellent to be sure, but it has a few rather glaring flaws in its present incarnation. I'd say that it was badly managed, and it had some inherent issues from the get go. Yes, something is very, very off, and I do believe that everything will come to light, I just hope that our blockchain survives this apocalypse (apocalypse is from the Greek 'apocalypto', which means 'the Great Unveiling'). Absolutely, the more of which everyone is aware, the more easily people will be able to organize among themselves to cooperate so that they can actually make positive and necessary changes.
Thank you, brother, I appreciate that. Everything came together exactly when it was needed. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!ALIVE
!BBH
!LOLZ
!PIZZA
!UNICOIN
Enlightening people is the way forward for sure, i started converting HBD today, i'm planning to be back on Hive fully tomorrow evening and cracking on with empowering our community.
I also added liquidity to the Alive pools, purchased some Alive off the market and staked some.
Growing our community and increasing our tribe wealth to help others needs to be what we do to ensure our success despite what storms may come from the mess they made here.
Stay awesome buddy
@tydynrain
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STOPThat's absolutely incredible! Thanks so much, @hivebuzz team! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
You've got this @tydynrain! Keep putting in the effort and you'll reach your target in no time.
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"The darkest hour is just before dawn."
That Hive Debt number is dark. There may be light at the end of the tunnel. A new year approaches. I think we have year-end maneuvering happening now, resulting in volatility. January might bring money from stock and metal gains back to crypto. We don't have long to wait and see what does happen.
You have set yourself up nicely for 2026. I wish you all the best!
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LOHtokens.@kenny-crane, you successfully shared 0.1000 LOH with @tydynrain and you earned 0.1000 LOH as tips. (2/9 calls)
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I love that you mentioned that quote, and indeed, it very often does go that way. We've got an incredible blockchain, and I'm not going anywhere. I just keep moving forward with my endeavors, no matter what. That is very much my hope, my friend. All fingers and toes crossed!
Thank you, Kenny, I appreciate that, and I'm doing my best! Likewise, brother, may 2026 be extraordinary for all of us!
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tydynrain, you mined 1.0 🟧 HBIT. If you'd replied to another Hive user, the HBIT would be split: 0.9 to you and 0.1 to them as a tip. When you mine HBIT, you're also playing the Wusang: Isle of Blaq game. 🏴☠️
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