I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1299 - Despite Hive's Present Economy, New Developments and Growth Are Going Strong! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, February 16, 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: 21.85%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.072 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.963 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price:  0.08663188 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00126662 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.136674 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.000214 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 67,535.35 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 567.53 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 54.255 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,880.00 USD  

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 73.43 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #138 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#109 (among active witnesses only)/283.4k HP in votes/43 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Hive's current economic conditions are pretty bad indeed, but even with that there are still quite a goodly number of interesting and exciting developments taking place in the Ecosystem as of late, and asset growth, both on my own account, and on our 'We Are Alive Tribe' accounts, is moving forward at quite a good pace (though still never fast enough for me...lol). It would seem that those who still love and believe in Hive are digging in and building even more, as we in the We Are Alive Tribe are also doing. Opportunities always abound in challenging times like these, for those who are willing to take advantage of them.

On the 'We Are Alive Tribe' front, I've got an ever-increasing diversity and quantity of assets growing more quickly all the time, which is very satisfying, though to become an economic and financial powerhouse in the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem, we still have a long way to go, which is exactly why I try to be as judicious as I can in leveraging the assets that we do have, to make the process go as quickly as possible. It's still pretty slow going for my tastes, however.

Leveraging and growing a good diversity of solid assets, backed in different ways, provides the best overall financial stability, which is exactly what Ben and I are endeavoring to do as we build and flesh out our decentralized community economy and financial system. This includes many layer-2 tokens from allied communities and projects, since we want to support their economic success, because it's good for them, and for us, since it helps strengthen the assets in which we invest. We're all stronger when we support each other.

Given that the value of HIVE and HBD are tied closely to the US fiat Dollar, which will continue to decline in value, it's essential to acquire, leverage, and grow off-chain digital and real-world assets where this is not the case. Thankfully a good number of off-chain-linked assets, and their various diesel/liquidity pools, exist on Hive Engine that we'll be incorporating increasingly more as well progress, and as our resources allow. Then there's the backing with gold and silver, which Ben is working on now.

We're filling a huge pot with a tea cup, and while we are definitely making great strides, this is still not a rapid process, and even with the regular investments from Ben and me, it will indeed take some time. What we're building will be well worth the while and the wait, and it might even be able to turn Hive around for the better. That's our desire, intention, and the focus of our efforts, and we're moving forward at full blast, for the We Are Alive Tribe, and for the Blockchain, with success being our only option.

Yesterday, Monday, 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. Once I completed that, I walked around for a bit with Trust, a young women who's been living here, to show her, and to help her collect, various plants that could be used for an infection. Upon wrapping that up, I worked with Becca, another young woman who's living here, to salvage a section of PVC ethernet conduit at the Abode, though we didn't get very far, since the other much longer section of conduit had electrical lines in it, which made us have to change our plans a bit. After finishing what we could with that, Becca and I worked a little more on organizing the new kitchen space. She also helped me with measuring the distance from the Puppy House (an essential network juncture) to the Flow House, to see how many individual pieces of conduit that I'll need to protect the ethernet cable between those two points. With that done, I returned to the new kitchen space to make myself some food (a mini spiced-and-seasoned beef burger, 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. I had intended to write and publish my goals-and-progress update, but I had too many other things to get done on Hive, so that had to wait until this morning. I got everything done by a little after 11:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by about 12AM. I woke up just after 7AM, having slept very well, doing more asset management, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in the new kitchen spot, returning to the Flow House to write and publish my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update, and then to begin writing this post. It's now just after 1:45PM, 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, 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 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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