I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1269 - Building a Strong Foundation for Our 'We Are Alive Tribe' Economy and Financial System - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, January 17, 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: 16.80%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.106 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.979 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.09522136 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00159557 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.182009 USD 

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0003302 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 95,322.7 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 592.79 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 75.095 USD  

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,602.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 90.26 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #140 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#108 (among active witnesses only)/272.2K HP in votes/40 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

In my post yesterday I talked about the importance for token creators and managers to diversify the backing for their tokens, so that their value is not dependent upon only one value-backing asset maintaining or increasing in value. As many of you have likely noticed, most layer-2 tokens on Hive Engine aren't backed by anything at all, and are worth basically nothing, many now being basically little more than useless token dust. This is sad to me, because with committed, dedicated, and passionate individuals and groups managing all these abandoned and dead tokens, our layer-2 token economy could be a whole lot more robust, interesting, and financially abundant. It's my perspective, if we're going to create and manage a token, we really should do our best do it well.

Erik (@flaxz) laid a good foundation for the We Are Alive Tribe, and he managed the community assets well, which made my job immensely easier when I first took on that role. ALIVE (and AWESOME in its time) began as a solid token, and now with Ben and I going full-steam ahead by investing heavily in building and growing our decentralized community economy and financial system, we're working to make ALIVE, and Ben's new HEARTBEAT token, the most useful and valuable assets in layer-2.

Working with Ben is a pleasure, because we share the same passion and vision, which allows us to work together in our monumental endeavor very efficiently, effectively, and quickly, accomplishing much in quite short periods of time. We have a great deal yet to do, but we're moving forward in leaps and bounds. Ben is also working out the details to be able to incorporate both gold and silver into our tokens' backing. This will be in addition to the diverse layer-2 assets that I'll be generating and growing on various community accounts, as another multi-asset digital means to back our tokens. When I said that we were taking the We Are Alive Tribe to a new level this year, I meant it, my friends!

We're in the process of building the foundation for a strong, robust, and resilient 'We Are Alive Tribe' economy and financial system. Yes, it will take time, but every step that we take lays the foundation for the next, and we're not moving slowly, also the more help the merrier, and it makes it go all the faster!

As we turn the We Are Alive Tribe into an economic and financial powerhouse, and a potent force for good on the blockchain, we will also be focusing equally on supporting and strengthening our fellow allied communities and projects, and their tokens. We want us all to thrive on Hive, and we're diligently endeavoring to make that happen.

Yesterday, Saturday, 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. Afterward, I took some measurements in the Landing, and I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and I tidied up the area bit. When I had that done, I felt inspired to make another batch of my special spiced-and-seasoned popcorn in the Landing, which Bryan came to enjoy with me. After nibbling on popcorn 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 begin my evening Hive tasks. Although I got close, I wasn't able to get fully caught up on my notifications for the third day in a row, before I had to stop by a bit after 10:30PM, to do some asset management, and then to go to bed by around 11:30PM. I woke up a bit after 7:30AM, 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 1PM, so it's a marvelous time to wrap this up, so that I may attend 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 on some photography for my posts first, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation 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!

Vote for our @aliveandmmb Witness Node!

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!

Vote for @borniet's @botlord Witness Node!

Bjorn is our badass coder who hosts and manages our (and also Bradley's) community backends, he creates all sorts of useful tools, and he assists people all over the Blockchain constantly. He redefines the term 'busy'!

Vote for @bradleyarrow's Witness Node!

Bradley's tenaciously committed and all-in on Hive for the long haul (just like me!), and the higher his witness goes in the ranking, the higher the weekly BBH and BBHO dividend payouts will be!

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