I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1291 - The Hive Debt Crosses 22%, and There Are So Many Excellent New Pools! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, February 8, 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: 22.17%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.073 USD

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

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.06318736 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00131103 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.101431 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0002141 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 69,965.25 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 529.88 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 54.33 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 5,062.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 83.44 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #139 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#109 (among active witnesses only)/282.2k HP in votes/43 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

The Hive Debt, which crossed the 20% Hive Soft Debt Limit last week, has continued to climb at an accelerated pace, being at 22.17% as of this afternoon, and the Hive Hard Debt Limit of 30% approaching quite quickly. That's not good news at all, my friends. HBD, whether in or out of savings, may indeed lose much of its value and use for while, until the situation is rectified.

Pretty soon the only way to grow HBD may be in diesel/liquidity pools, as SWAP.HBD, from daily liquidity rewards and/or pool fees. I've been working, on my account, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, to to grow our daily income in SWAP.HBD, which due to HBD no longer being distributed in post rewards, and my focused effort, is now greater than our layer-1 HBD income. There are two services of which I'm aware that facilitate swapping between HBD and SWAP.HBD, so if I'm able to grow our income in SWAP.HBD sufficiently, we may be able to send some to layer 1 at some point soonish.

Diesel/Liquidity pools aren't only a source for, or a way to grow HBD, of course, but also for an astonishingly diverse array of quite useful and valuable layer-2 tokens, some of which provide benefits in and of themselves, while others give benefits from adding them to various other pools, and some offer benefits from both. They've become the best way to acquire certain tokens, and in a very consistent, dependable, reliable, and stable manner. That's one of multiple reasons that I'm always diving deeper into the pools in which I already have liquidity, and exploring and adding liquidity to new pools that come onto my radar.

There have been quite a few new and very interesting pools appearing recently, such as AEGIS:SWAP.HIVE, HASHSCORE:SWAP.HIVE, LIMITLESS:STARBITS, LIMITLESS:SWAP.HIVE, TOOFUCKEH:SWAP.HIVE, along with a host of new CENT pools, and I've been getting myself first, and then the We Are Alive Tribe, into them as soon as I notice them, as they all have quite good benefits and returns.

There are also some not-so-new pools that I've been testing out on a few 'We Are Alive Tribe' accounts, with surprisingly good results for some, which informs me about the pool investments on my own account as well. Some pools are excellent, but I have to wait until I'm able to add sufficient liquidity to them to gain any benefits in terms of earning pool fees. Two pools, STARBITS:SWAP.HIVE and MEME:PEPE, were even better when they had liquidity rewards, but the rate at they accrue pool fees makes them still quite exceptional. Swimming in the pools is an art and a science, and I'm endeavoring to master it, to reach whale-level liquidity in as many solid pools as possible, on my account, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, as the benefits to doing so would be substantial. One day, and one step, at a time.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and my once-weekly thorough asset management for the We Are Alive Tribe, by a little after 3:30PM, giving my attention to some rainy-day photography for my posts first, and then to a few small jungle-community tasks. I also had the inspiration to make another batch of my special spiced-and-seasoned popcorn in the Landing, which I nibbled on for a bit before finally collecting my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, along with a little popcorn for later, and heading back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by just after 10PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by about 11:30PM. I woke up by just before 7:30AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, returning to the Flow House to write and publish my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update, then starting on this post. It's now just before 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 on some photography for my posts first (hopefully not in the rain), and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's incarnation 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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and

ALIVE:ALIVEM

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