I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1267 - Bootstrapping Asset Generation and Growth on a New 'We Are Alive Tribe' Account - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, January 15, 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: 16.57%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.104 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.973 USD 

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.10008764 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00157514 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.188216 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0003221 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 94,959.8 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 599.54 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 74.62 USD  

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,593.00 USD  

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 89.23 USD

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #140 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#109 (among active witnesses only)/171.9K HP in votes/40 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Building systems of asset leveraging, growth, and multitudinous income streams has become quite a passion for me indeed over the past 4+ years, and that was taken to a whole new level when I took on the asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe, because it has given me the opportunity to get into the practical nitty-gritty of creating and growing an entire decentralized community financial infrastructure and economy. While it does take considerable time, focus, and work, it's also exceedingly fun for me, and it's very beneficial for all of you, because there will be ever-increasing benefits to reap as I progress in my endeavors.

I've been mentioning that 2026 is going to be a truly extraordinary year for the We Are Alive Tribe, and that we're taking our project, community, and token, to a new next level. Ben (@benthomaswwd / @benthomasuk) and I have been investing heavily over the last few months into accelerating the process of putting the essential parts of an entire financial infrastructure and economy together into a greater functional whole, and while we've made excellent progress, and we're moving forward and a good pace, there is still much to do.

This morning Ben asked me to do my asset-managing magic on a new community account that he created, that he will be funding for that purpose. This account will be used to hold and grow the asset backing for his new HEARTBEAT token, and it's my job to grow a solid array of useful and valuable assets over time. This is another fun challenge that I happily accept.

This will be a new experience for me because it will be the first time that I'll be bootstrapping a whole system of income streams starting with only HIVE and SWAP.HIVE. This make it necessary to focus on the absolutely most efficient and effective means of creating the highest SWAP.HIVE income possible, because that will allow me to most easily diversify our investments and assets.

Since a solid SWAP.HIVE income is my first main goal, I'll be focusing on adding liquidity to the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, and accepting HP leases, which are the two best methods of generating SWAP.HIVE. Once I've got a nice SWAP.HIVE income flowing, then I'll begin adding liqidity to other excellent pools, and acquiring assets backed by solid, trustworthy projects. The 'We Are Alive Tribe' fun is just getting started, my friends!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, just after 2PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first. Once I had that done to my satisfaction, I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and then after a food-supply run to Tutu's to restock the Landing, and a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, I focused on the task of emptying Ano's truck of the last chunk of goat manure, and spreading it on the planting beds on both sides of the Flow-House trail, with Simon's assistance. After wrapping up that task, I took a nice hot shower, then I felt inspired to make another batch of my special spiced-and-seasoned popcorn in the Landing. Upon preparing and nibbling on that for a bit, I made myself some proper 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 start with my evening Hive tasks. I had a lot of notifications again, and I wasn't able get through them all before I had to stop by around 11PM, to do some quick asset management, and then to go to bed by just after 11:30PM. I woke up just after 7AM, having slept fairly 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 11:45AM, so it's a wonderful time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my few other important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, before preparing for a session that's scheduled for 1:30PM. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's edition 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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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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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.