I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1287 - The Challenges of Investing, Leveraging, and Growing Assets in the Present Hive Economy - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, February 4, 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: 20.43%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.069 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.944 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.04537537 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00114113 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.110733 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0002439 USD 

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 64,182.55 USD 

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 474.45 USD 

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 51.54 USD

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,829.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 74.43 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #140 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#110 (among active witnesses only)/280.9k HP in votes/41 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

There was a time not long ago when the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem offered seemingly endless ways to invest, leverage, and grow assets. In the last few years, however, and especially as of late in our present extremely challenging Hive economic conditions, so many projects, tokens, and sources of income, have come to an end. This economic and investment erosion has made it necessary, both on my own account, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, to basically constantly be adapting, improvising, and overcoming, in the face of an apparently never-ending parade of new challenges.

At the beginning of the year, the We Are Alive Tribe had a surplus of weekly HIVE income, and now we're in a deficit each week, which is quite a bugger, because that's how we fund the HIVE payouts to ALIVE holders and stakers, and how we pay our HP delegators. The situation is not critical yet, as we still have a good chunk of HIVE in reserve, but it's decreasing each week, so my primary focus is to create and grow other sources of HIVE income to compensate, and to ensure that our community is not dependent upon only one project for an essential component of our daily and weekly functioning.

I've been focusing on the DAB-DBOND-RUG trio, as the long-term compounding benefits are excellent, but getting our holdings and stake of those tokens to levels where our HIVE income from that source (from liquid DAB) could actually replace its counterpart from our large BEE delegation, will take a fair amount of time, or quite large investments into those tokens. There is also a challenge with availability, as there are often not large quantities of them available on the market. That's why I'm trying to get things compounding as efficiently as I can.

Since growing our holding of DAB, DBOND, and RUG to sufficient levels will indeed take quite a bit of time, I'm still looking for other good tokens that provide a fair income of HIVE, to help out a bit. There are a lot fewer of them now from which to choose, I'll definitely say that, though there are thankfully still some solid tokens and projects. Presently I'm looking into and hashing numbers for DUO, EDSI, PAKX, PIMP, SPI, and VOCUP. Some of these pay out HIVE daily, some weekly, and one of them only pays out monthly, so that must also be taken into account in my assessment.

I don't plan to focus on just one of the above tokens, but rather on acquiring useful quantities of each that complement each other's HIVE income, to better diversify our investments across projects. Once I can get our HIVE income back into the green again, and to a place where I don't have to worry about it for a while, then I'll focus more on building and growing other important areas of our decentralized community economy and financial infrastructure, but for the moment, it's all about growing our HIVE income.

Yesterday, Wednesday, after finishing up with my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. The session start slightly late, it went very well, and we wrapped it up by about 6PM, after which I headed to the Landing to make myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned ground beef, eggs, onions, tomatoes, cilantro leaves, longevity spinach leaves, pepperjack cheese, olive oil, and sea salt), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I returned to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by a bit after 10:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed, a bit too late, by just after 12AM. I woke up just before 7AM, having slept reasonably well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then heading back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1:15PM, so it's quite a good 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, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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