I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1242 - 605+ HBD Ready to Swap for HIVE, and HIVE's Fiat Price Starts Rising Again! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, December 21, 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: 19.53%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.097 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.948 USD

ALIVE Price in SWAP.HIVE: 0.04636965 SWAP.HIVE  

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00151266 USD 

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.226276 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 88,302.75 USD

LTC/Litecoin: 76.34 USD 

Gold: 4,443.00 USD  

Silver: 68.92 USD 

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I'm finding it exceedingly ironic that as soon as my 605+ HBD in Savings fully unstaked last night, all ready to swap for HIVE, the fiat-dollar price of HIVE began to rise again! So I'm apparently going to be doing a bit of waiting and watching prices, to take advantage of the next HIVE dip, so that I'm able to get the most bang for my HBD buck. We still have 10 days until January 1, 2026, so I'm quite sure that I'll be able swap my HBD for a very good price within that time.

This morning I also claimed the last round of interest for the HBD in Savings on @aliveandthriving, and immediately afterward I initiated the 3-day withdrawal process for our 80.241 HBD, which would mean that it would fully unstake around Christmas day, so a bit too late to get out the increased HIVE amounts in the ALIVE dividends, and in the payouts to HP delegators before or by Christmas, so it will have to be implemented as soon afterward as is feasible, definitely before New Year.

I've got to say that it feels extremely weird to have my big chunk of HBD just sitting liquid in my wallet, not earning interest. I always do my best to use, leverage, and grow my assets as effectively and efficiently as I can, and when I'm not able to do so, it annoys me quite a bit I must say. I definitely want HIVE's price to go up, but not at this particular moment...lol!

For my 605+ HBD, and the 80+ HBD that will unstake on @aliveandthriving in 3 days, I'm shooting to swap both amounts for HIVE when HIVE is back in the $0.08 range. All I need is one or two more dips in the fiat price of HIVE, and I'll be good to go! Then I, and we, will have a whole lot of HIVE with which to play!

I'm still trying to figure out exactly how I'd be able to rebuild my HBD to the level that it is now, if and when depositing HBD to Savings becomes a good idea once again, since getting it to this point has taken me most of my time on Hive, hence my reticence in withdrawing it. I would still really love to be able to have as much HBD in Savings earning interest as possible, and to be able to live off of that interest one day, though I'm wondering if that is still practically feasible, especially with the dismal Hive economy as of late. Regardless of how it ends up going, I'll just keep doing what I do, adapting, improvising, and overcoming, as I invest, leverage, and grow assets, for the benefit of us all!

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and my once-weekly thorough round of 'We Are Alive Tribe' asset management, by around 2:45PM, slightly earlier than I was expecting, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to a few small tasks that needed doing. I'm keeping my Sundays mellow, so no big projects or time-consuming tasks. After completing my handful of tasks for the day, I heated myself up some food that I had in the Landing fridge, 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 just after 10:15PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by about 11PM. I woke up a bit after 6:30AM, after having slept very well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, returning to the Flow House to write and publish My 186th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: All 3 Primary 2025 Hive Goals Have Been Achieved, HBD Has Been Withdrawn from Savings, and My January HPUD Powerup Is Going to Be Huge! post, and then to begin writing this post. It's now just before 12:45PM, 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 a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts, hopefully on straining and blending coconut kefir, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's incarnation 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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