I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1260 - The 'We Are Alive Tribe' Financial Infrastructure Just Got Another Big Boost! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, January 9, 2026

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: 16.75%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.106 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.991 USD 

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.06733308 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00151634 USD 

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.206235 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0003233 USD 

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 90,248.7 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 80.92 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,501.00 USD

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 80.00 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #144 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#112 (among active witnesses only)/250K HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I'm happy to announce that, thanks to Ben's (@benthomaswwd / @benthomasuk) contribution/donation of 500 HIVE this morning, I was able to strongly boost the development and growth of our 'We Are Alive Tribe' financial infrastructure. Normally any HIVE that Ben sends me for the community is allocated and powered up to various community accounts, but given that our weekly HIVE income from our BEE delegation has dropped notably over the past 2 weeks, I swapped the HIVE for SWAP.HIVE, and I used it to buy most of the DAB and DBOND off the market, which will give our daily HIVE income a boost, and I used the rest to strongly increase our liquidity in the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, which raised our daily SWAP.HIVE income substantially.

We now have more liquid DAB, which gives daily HIVE payouts, on @aliveandthriving than I presently have on my own account, and with the good amount of DBOND that I just bought, it should now grow a bit more quickly, which will translate into ever-increasing daily HIVE income. With my daily contribution/donation of 1 SWAP.HIVE, I've been buying more RUG, and growing our liquidity in the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, which is helping a good deal, and which I'll continue to do, because it's something important that will benefit us all.

With how little HIVE that we received this week from our BEE delegation, I have to use more of the big chunk of HIVE that I'm using for the increased HIVE payouts in the ALIVE dividends, which makes it essential that I grow our weekly HIVE income from other sources as quickly as I'm able. That's one of my primary focuses at the moment.

While our weekly HIVE income has taken a hit, for which I'm endeavoring to compensate quickly, our daily SWAP.HIVE income has been growing well, and it jumped up notably after today's investment, presently about 2.5 SWAP.HIVE per week, which is excellent, because that allows me to invest more deeply in various diesel/liquidity pools, and to buy assets like DAB, DBOND, and RUG, which increase our HIVE income. There is much still to do, but I'm making very good headway. Now to get it to 2.5 SWAP.HIVE per day.

We're working to make 2026 the best year yet for the We Are Alive Tribe, and I'm expecting there to be several excellent developments, and substantial growth in our community, and much collaboration with allied communities. The more that y'all, our beloved community, get yourselves more deeply involved, and the more that you contribute/donate to our efforts, the more quickly that what we're building and growing will become off-the-chart amazingballs for all of us. We're got much to build this year, my friends!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once that was completed to my satisfaction, I used a wheelbarrow to transport full propane tanks from Tutu's to the Landing, to relace the backups that had been used on runnning the generator. With that done, I made another batch of one of my special versions of popcorn, and I strained and blended coconut kefir, in the Landing, after which I made a food-supply run to Tutu's to restock the Landing. After returning to the Landing, I got into a fun, interesting and engaging conversation with Becca, a young woman who's staying here for a while, over the popcorn that I had just made. It was a very unexpected and enjoyable exchange that went on for quite a good amount of time. When we finally wrapped up our conversation, I made myself some food (mini spiced-and-seasoned burgers, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, and Dijon mustard) in the Landing, 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 had a lot of notifications again, and I barely got through them all by the time I finished just after 11:15PM, and after some quick asset management, I went to bed by a bit after 11:45PM. I woke up just after 7AM, still feeling that I needed a little more sleep, 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 1:30PM, so it's a really 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 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2026 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.

Come join us in the We Are Alive Tribe on Hive and on Blurt!

Image created by @benthomaswwd

You're invited to provide liquidity in our two ALIVE diesel/liquidity pools, both of which offer daily liquidity rewards:

ALIVE:SWAP.HIVE

and

ALIVE:ALIVEM

There will be more ALIVE pools coming soon!

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