I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1264 - Becoming a BEE Master, or the Fastest Way to Grow BEE - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, January 12, 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: 

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.108 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.004 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.15556603 SWAP.HIVE  

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00155675 USD 

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.172321 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0003282 USD 

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 94,254.55 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 614.39 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 77.385 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,593.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 87.23 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #141 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#110 (among active witnesses only)/271.5K HP in votes/40 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Today I want to talk about one of the most important tokens in Hive Engine's layer 2, BEE, which is necessary to create new tokens, liquidity pools, and pool distribution contracts. Given that it costs 100 BEE to create or modify a token, 1,000 BEE to create a diesel/liquidity pool, and 100 BEE to create or modify a pool distribution contract, for those (like me!) who create and manage liquidity pools, BEE tokens are always in high demand. Also, because BEE is an inherent part of Hive Engine's functioning, it's also one the most dependable and reliable investments in layer 2, as it will always be needed.

Erik (@flaxz) told me once that the quickest way to grow BEE was through curation, which is exactly how he grew the We Are Alive Tribe's massive stake of 20,400+ BEE (that provides the large weekly HIVE payments, which still mostly funds the daily HIVE payouts in our ALIVE dividends, and the weekly HIVE payments to our HP delegators), which is no small feat. After years of experimenting with different methods of accumulating BEE, I finally realized not long ago that Erik was absolutely right.

Diesel/liquidity pools can indeed not only help us grow our BEE holding, but they can also be used to increase our BEE income. That said, BEE still grows more quickly from curation. The reason for this is that BEE curation rewards are paid out as 50% liquid/50% staked, which means that the more BEE that we have staked, not only will our staked BEE grow ever more quickly, but our income in liquid BEE, which depends directly on how much BEE that we have staked, will also continue to grow ever more rapidly over time.

With this understanding, I've been letting the staked BEE on my own account, and on the We Are Alive Tribe's accounts in our curation trail, to slowly accumulate without delegating more to @bee.voter (which gives our sizeable weekly HIVE payouts), for the last few months now. As I figured, my, and our staked BEE is growing quite quickly, and the more that we accumulate, the faster it's growing. This is very good, as it means that our income in liquid BEE will at some point become quite substantial, which will much more easily allow us to fund the creation and management of our existing and future liquidity pools, and all from an intrinsic and consistent Hive-Engine accumulation mechanism.

So I'm now on a quest to become a BEE Master, on my own account, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, with the goal of eventually generating more BEE than I, and that we, could easily use. Substantial daily and weekly incomes in BEE, HIVE, and SWAP.HIVE are absolutely essential, and that is for what I'm working every day, for me, and for all of you.

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, after which I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and I tidied up the area a bit, before grabbing my machete to go on a banana hunt around the property, in search of harvestable bananas (I found 2 small racks). Once I had those completed, I cleaned up, then I made myself some food (mini spiced-and-seasoned beef 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 got everything done by about 10:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by around 11:15PM. 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 12:30PM, so it's a great time to wrap this up, so that I may attend 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, on collecting coconut water and coconut meat from several younger coconuts to start another round of kefir fermentation, and then on 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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ALIVE:SWAP.HIVE

and

ALIVE:ALIVEM

There will be more ALIVE pools coming soon!

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