I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1246 - Still Waiting to Swap HBD for HIVE, and 2026 Will Be Glorious for the We Are Alive Tribe! - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, December 25, 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: 18.71%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.090 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.992 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.04120561 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00145539 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.211344 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0002984 USD 

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 87,249.25 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 76.71 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price:  

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 77.32 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #145 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#112 (among active witnesses only)/246.8K HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I've been waiting for days now for the fiat-dollar price of HIVE to dip back into the $0.08 range to swap my presently 605.938 liquid HBD, and now the currently 80.389 liquid HBD sitting on @aliveandthriving, for HIVE, but as you might have noticed, the fiat-dollar price of HIVE has been quite stable in the $0.09 range, which means even more waiting. Since there are only 6 days left for us in 2025, I may just have to do the swap in the low $0.09 range, which would not be ideal, but it would still yield a substantial amount of HIVE. On my own account, even with the present prices, it's now a given that I'll be powering up at least 7,000 HIVE on the January HPUD, and if the timing is right, it may end up being more.

At the current prices, for my 605.938 HBD, I would receive around 6,655+ HIVE, and we'd receive about 882+ HIVE for the 80.389 HBD on @aliveandthriving. That's not bad at all, but it could be better, which is why my wait continues. I want to squeeze as many HIVE out of all this HBD as I can, for me, and for all of you!

Regardless of the exact timing and amount, my mega-powerup on the January HPD will be a huge boost to my Hive Power, and the augmentation to the quantity of HIVE distributed in the Daily ALIVE dividends, and to our HP delegators, will also be quite noticeable, and they're coming very soon indeed! I'm just waiting for one more good dip!

2025 was an excellent year for The We Are Alive Tribe, with us achieving, building, expanding, and growing much over the last year, and I can tell you that I'm working to make 2026 even better. Our ALIVE token has been doing quite well also, and I'm endeavoring to make it one of the most useful and valuable assets on Hive Engine. I'm building a whole financial infrastructure to make it happen, one day, and one step at a time.

Regarding that 'We Are Alive Tribe' financial infrastructure, AKA the 'We Are Alive Tribe' Multi-Stream Passive-Income Machine, I'm doing my best to put it all together, and to grow the various income streams, as quickly as I'm able with our present resources. To speed up the process, I've continued to contribute/donate 1 SWAP.HIVE of my own funds every day, with 36 SWAP.HIVE having been invested into the We Are Alive Tribe so far. Ben is doing the same in a more punctuated manner. I've also been adding @aliveandthriving as a 5% beneficiary on all of my posts, which is in addition to the blanket 1% beneficiary set for our main community account for all posts published in the 'We Are Alive Tribe' Community, and it's definitely helping out a whole lot! I do this because I love the We Are Alive Tribe, I want it to thrive, and to build a system of financial abundance and wealth that benefits us all increasingly more over time.

Yesterday, Thursday (Christmas), I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 1:45PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I had that done to my satisfaction, I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and I tidied up the area a bit. With that completed, I did a food-supply run to Tutu's for the Landing, I harvested two racks of bananas, and after a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, I got a shovel and an o-o bar, and I dug three more banana-planting holes near the water tank on the Peanut Lawn. Upon finishing with that, I took a shower, made myself some food (mini spiced-and-seasoned burgers, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, and Dijon mustard), 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 quite early, by just before 9PM, and after watching a video about sidestepping digital surveillance on Qortal (QTube), and some asset management, I went to bed a bit on the late side again, about 11:45PM. I woke up just after 7AM, 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 11:45AM, so it's a fantabulous time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before preparing for a session that's scheduled for 1:30PM. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition 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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