I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1305 - 16,900 HP This Week, and Building the Strongest and Most Resilient Community Economy Possible - Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, February 22, 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: 22.78%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.063 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.929 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.07374040 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00121061 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.112072 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001961 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 64,664.35 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 500.76 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 51.76 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 5,230.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 88.06 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #138 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#109 (among active witnesses only)/286.9k HP in votes/42 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

It's funny, my Hive Power is growing faster than ever, and yet I've noticed that I'm not mentioning it so much anymore. I suppose it has a lot to do with the fact that Hive Power is growing so quickly now in large part due to Hive's present abysmal economic conditions, so it's quite bittersweet for me now. I'm certainly still grateful for my growth, but as many of you have likely noticed, as the fiat-dollar price of HIVE keeps falling, so does our vote weight, so even though our HP may be increasing, our vote weight keeps decreasing. That sure isn't fun, but I make the best of it, even though my upvotes aren't worth very much at all as of late.

I blew past 16,800 HP last week, and at this cadence I'll easily far exceed 16,900 Hive Power at some point early this week, with 17,000 HP coming the week after that. Even though my vote weight is not very useful at the moment, I am still pulling in a fair amount of curation rewards, and the more my HP increases, the more of it I'll be able to lease for daily SWAP.HIVE payments, which is allowing me to continue strongly investing in excellent diesel/liquidity pools, and in acquiring various solid useful and valuable tokens, like the DAB-DBOND-RUG trio, and HSBIDAO, which already has one great pool, and with more soon to come, where its curation dividends will still be earned.

That's honestly where most of my interest in gaining more HP currently lies, in its capacity to fuel my layer-2 growth in numerous pools and tokens, as that gives me ever more leverage with which I can generate and grow an increasing number of income streams. With so many Hive-Engine assets tied to the falling price of HIVE, or tied to HBD and the fiat dollar which is constantly losing value, it's important to leverage and grow assets where this is not the case, like off-chain crypto assets, and RWAs (Real World Assets) like gold, silver, or land.

RWAs are coming as one form of solid backing for our own assets, beginning with gold and silver, which Ben (@benthomaswwd / @benthomasuk) is in the process of implementing now via the UPMA (United Precious Metals Assocation). There are a few other tokens that have some version of RWA backing, like TTSL (Tokenized Tesla), TLGD (Tokenized Gold), and Eco Alex's ECOBANK, which is backed by land. The more diverse assets, across different investment domains, that can be used for token backing, or as leverage in investing, the greater price and value stability will exist over time.

Very hopefully, this backing of tokens by diverse assets, including RWAs, will spread among the assorted Hive communities, projects, and tokens, and catalyze a significant and necessary shift in how our greater Hive economy works, and how it's managed, because the present system does not work, as is obvious to anyone paying attention. What we're doing in the We Are Alive Tribe Is very much for the good of our community, but it's also for the good of the whole Hive Blockchain Ecosystem, in which, and on which our community depends. We're here to change things for the better, and we're moving full steam ahead with making it happen, for all of us.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my many and varied Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, very late, by around 4PM, focusing first on investigating and resolving an internet-outage issue, which thankfully I was able to fix quickly, and then on a few small jungle-community tasks. I started the generator quite early, as we had very little sun during the day, then I made myself some food in the new kitchen space, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee hands, I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got everything done by a little after 9PM, so I used the time to prepare this post, and my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update post, to write today. After completing that, I did some asset management, then I went to bed by a bit after 11PM. I woke to Alex calling my name, to assist him with packing up one of our two StarLink units, to return later in the morning. After finshing with that, and setting my router to use only one StarLink connection again, I did some asset management, before heading to the new kitchen to prepare my superfood fire coffee, returning to the Flow House immediately aftward to write and publish my goals-and-progress update, then to begin on this post. It's now just after 1:45PM, so it's an exceedingly 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 some photography for my posts, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression 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.