I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1247 - The 'We Are Alive Tribe' Christmas Gift Is Ready for Delivery, and One Change! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, December 26, 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: 18.86%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.093 USD

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

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.03951956 SWAP.HIVE  

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00146406 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.199833 USD 

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0002933 USD 

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 87,573.95 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 79.325 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,533.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 79.17 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #145 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#112 (among active witnesses only)/247.0K HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I have some lovely news for y'all today! Last night the fiat-dollar price of HIVE dipped below $0.09, so I took the opportunity to swap the 80.407 liquid HBD that was sitting on @aliveandthriving for 897.727 HIVE. This morning I did the usual weekly allocations of 22 HIVE to @aliveandthriving (21 HIVE for ALIVE dividends+1 HIVE as precision buffer), and 22 HIVE to @aliveandsocial (21 HIVE for HP delegators+1 HIVE as precision buffer), and once the regular funds for the week were where they needed to be, I topped off the 897.727 HIVE from the HBD swap that I had parked on our main community account, with some of the surplus HIVE that I've accumulated on @aliveprojects, to get it to an even 900 HIVE, to distribute over the next year.

After running the numbers, I realized that if I were to split that 900 HIVE evenly between ALIVE dividends and HP delegators for the next year, that the boost to both would be rather modest, and since this is supposed to be a Christmas gift for the whole 'We Are Alive Tribe' community, I made the decision to allocate the whole 900 HIVE to distribution in the ALIVE dividends. This would give us 17.308 HIVE extra to distribute weekly (16.308 HIVE for ALIVE dividends+1 HIVE as precision buffer), in addition to the usual 22 HIVE (21 HIVE for ALIVE dividends+1 HIVE as precision buffer) that is already being sent out each week.

This means that the total amount of HIVE that will be allocated each week for distribution in the ALIVE dividends will be 39.308 HIVE (2 HIVE of that will be used as a precision buffer) , which is a boost of 78.672727272727% over the previous 22 HIVE/weekly. I'd say that the daily payout difference will be quite notable indeed!

Using the daily HIVE payouts that I receive on my own account as an example, if my present daily payout of 0.057 HIVE is augmented by 78.672727272727%, then I'd be receiving about 0.102 HIVE every day, which is not bad at all! I've got to get myself a lot more ALIVE, that's for sure!

If all goes according to plan, the augmented payouts in the daily ALIVE dividends should be going live by UTC Wednesday, December 31st. Although this Christmas gift is a bit late, since things often don't go according to planned time frames, it's ready now, and I hope that y'all enjoy it and use it well!

Yesterday, Friday, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks by around 12:30PM, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session started about half an hour late, it went very well, and we wrapped it up my around 6PM, after which I went to the Landing to make myself some food (mini spiced-and-seasoned burgers, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, and Dijon mustard), and to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with those in hands I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by just before 10PM, and after some asset management, including swapping the We Are Alive Tribe's HBD for HIVE, I went to bed by just after 11:30PM. I woke up just before 7AM, having slept 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 11:30AM, so it's an excellent 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, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

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Image created by @benthomaswwd

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ALIVE:SWAP.HIVE

and

ALIVE:ALIVEM

There will be more ALIVE pools coming soon!

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This is our collaboratively shared Witness node between the We Are Alive Tribe, and @borniet's and my MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) Project, here to build something good for all of us! The higher in the witness ranking we go, the more that we'll be able to grow the We Are Alive Tribe, and the more that we'll be able to share with all of you!

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Bradley's tenaciously committed and all-in on Hive for the long haul (just like me!), and the higher his witness goes in the ranking, the higher the weekly BBH and BBHO dividend payouts will be!

Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.