I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1248 - The End of @pob.voter, an HBD Decision, and an ALIVE-Dividend Payout Update - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, December 27, 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: 18.69%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.098 USD 

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.010 USD 

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.03852083 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00144450 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.199833 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0003028 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 87,505.4 USD 

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 78.435 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)/247.1K HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I was sad to learn this morning that the @pob.voter service, that provided weekly HIVE payouts for POB delegations, is coming to an end. With how challenging things are on Hive as of late, it seems that just about every day some important part of our Ecosystem disappears, which makes managing and leveraging assets all the more difficult. The end of @pob.voter is yet another loss of income, both for my own account, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, which is exactly why I've been diligently working to build and grow multiple streams of income for any significant asset, especially primary ones like HIVE and SWAP.HIVE.

The @bee.voter service, which is run by the same fellow as @pob.voter, and provides weekly HIVE payouts for BEE delegations, is presently the primary way that the HIVE in our daily ALIVE dividends, and that which goes to our HP delegators, is funded, so the end of @pob.voter hits quite close to home indeed. The fellow who runs it told me that he has no plans to end the @bee.voter service, which is very good, though I definitely think that it is absolutely necessary to create and grow other substantial sources of HIVE, and that's exactly what I'm doing, for me, and for the We Are Alive Tribe.

I have an update to what I wrote yesterday about the upcoming increased HIVE payouts in the daily ALIVE dividends, and while it is not a huge change, it is a beneficial improvement. When I posted the numbers yesterday, I was operating under the assumption that the HIVE necessary as a precision buffer, which is always important to make sure that we don't run out of HIVE during the week in our payouts, would be taken from the 900 HIVE (from our swapped HBD). Last night, however, I realized that there was a better way to do it. Instead of using HIVE from the 900 HIVE for the precision buffers, I decided to just use the surplus HIVE, that I've been endeavoring to accumulate, for that purpose. This means that the total amount of HIVE distributed daily in the ALIVE dividends would be 5.473 HIVE, as opposed to 5.330 HIVE. While that's not much of a difference, it would still very much add up over time on the receiving end.

It's looking like I may have to make a decision rather soon regarding my big chunk of liquid HBD that I've been patiently waiting to swap for HIVE when its fiat-dollar price moved back within a good $0.08 range. As I've mentioned, ever since my HBD fully unstaked, the fiat price of HIVE has been on the upside, which is great, but not when I'm trying to Swap HBD for HIVE. Up until now I've missed about a week of income from interest for HBD in Savings, which irritates me quite a lot. There was one small dip the other day, which is when I swapped the We Are Alive Tribe's 80+ HBD for HIVE, but that dip didn't last long, so I'm still waiting and watching on my own account.

If the fiat-dollar price of HIVE doesn't dip into the $0.08 range, then I'm very much considering just depositing my 606+ HBD back into Savings for another month, and perhaps longer, depending on how the fiat price of HIVE, and the Hive Debt go. This would certainly make my January HPUD powerup quite a lot smaller, though it will still be around 540 HIVE, so definitely not small. I have 4 days to go, so we'll see how it plays out.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just after 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. With that completed successfully, I went to chop and dump bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and to tidy up the area a bit. Upon finishing that, I went on a banana hunt around the property in search of harvestable bananas (I didn't find any). Once my banana hunt was finished, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, after which I got a shovel and an o-o bar, to dig two more banana-planting holes between the Ka and the Mana Hut. After I got that done, I got my machete again, and I did more clearing between the Landing and the Beduoin. When I wrapped up my tasks for the day, I took a shower, made myself some food (mini spiced-and-seasoned beef 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 quite early, by just after 8PM, and after some asset management and scanning Qortal and my X feed, I went to bed around 11PM. I woke up about 7AM, having slept very 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 before 12PM, so it's a lovely time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, including my once-weekly thorough asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe, 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 tomorrow's version 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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