I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1249 - The Alive-Dividends Christmas Boost Starts Today, and My 607 HBD May Be Going Back into Savings Soon! - Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, December 28, 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: 18.07%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.105 USD

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

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.03486697 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00149131 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.200770 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0003066 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 87,186.5 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 78.07 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,329.00 USD  

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 71.77 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #145 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#112 (among active witnesses only)/247.3K HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Although I was planning to start distributing the augmented Christmas boost in our ALIVE dividends by December 31st, Bjorn ended up making the quantity change to the payout script this morning (my time), which means that I'm happy to announce that they will actually be going live today! The boost will be from 3 HIVE to 5.473 HIVE sent out every day, or an 82.433333333333% increase. Using my own account as an example, with my present holding and stake of ALIVE, I now receive 0.057 HIVE every day. After the boost, I should receive around 0.104 HIVE daily, which is quite a lovely bump-up indeed!

As I've been mentioning, I'm working to build and grow multiple sources of HIVE and SWAP.HIVE income, both for me, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, because it's very unwise to rely on only one or two, given how frequently projects, income tokens, and services, stop functioning, especially lately. As I say all the time, backups and redundancy are very useful indeed!

As I continue to build and grow the 'We Are Alive Tribe' financial infrastructure, AKA our multi-stream passive-income machine, I'm also endeavoring to increase the benefits, usefulness, and value of ALIVE, which includes continuing to raise the amount of HIVE sent out daily in the ALIVE dividends, as time progresses. This is the first notable boost to the amount of HIVE sent out in the ALIVE dividends, but it most definitely won't be the last.

It's been over a week now since my big chunk of HBD fully unstaked, as I've waited for the fiat-dollar price of HIVE to dip into the $0.08 range, which it has not done, to swap it for HIVE. Ironically, the fiat price of HIVE has been quite stable most of the week, aside from one small dip into the low $0.09 range (which is when I swapped the We Are Alive Tribe's HBD) a few days ago. This is pretty annoying, especially considering that I've lost a week's worth of HBD interest. As I mentioned yesterday, if the fiat price of HIVE doesn't dip into the $0.08 range by December 31st, I'll be staking my HBD back into Savings for at least another month, perhaps longer, depending on how things flow.

Given there are now fewer than 3 days to go, it's looking like depositing my HBD back into Savings may indeed be the course of action that I'll be choosing. One big downside to this is that my powerup for the January HPUD will be a bit more modest, though still quite good with 540ish HIVE ready to go. Let's see how the next 2 1/2 days go.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, which included my once-weekly thorough asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe, by just before 3PM, earlier than I expected, giving my focus to some photography for my posts first, though with the clouds obscuring the sun, I didn't complete it until the late afternoon. After my first attempt at photography, I made a food-supply run to Tutu's for the Landing. Once I had that done, I got a few small tasks done, and then I decided to make another batch of my special spiced-and-seasoned popcorn in the Landing. Since it was Sunday, I didn't focus on any other community/land work, instead giving my time to my own endeavors. I headed back to the Flow House, with my leftover jar of superfood fire coffee in hands, a little before sunset. I got everything done by a bit before 10PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by about 10:30PM. I woke up by 7AM, 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 187th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: An Upcoming HBD Decision, Another HIVE Income Source lost, and Augmented ALIVE Dividends Go Live Today!, and then to begin writing this post. It's now just after 1PM, so it's 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 collect coconut water and coconut meat from several younger coconuts to begin another round of kefir fermentation, and then to get into community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration 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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and

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