I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1307 - 17,900 HP Surpassed, and Pondering HP Investments - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, February 24, 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: 23.17%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.068 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.999 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.05527466 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00129719 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.116875 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0002024 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 9,241.5 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 514.74 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 58.005 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 5,171.00 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 514.74 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #138 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#108 (among active witnesses only)/286.5k HP in votes/42 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I was expecting, I crossed the threshold of 17,900 Hive Power yesterday afternoon, which makes exceeding 17,000 Hive Power by early next week a given. The Hive Debt is at 23.17%, and the APR for HP is at 4.29%, both numbers being at their all-time highs, with HIVE's fiat-dollar price near its all-time low, which is a recipe for very rapid HIVE/HP inflation/growth indeed. Again, this is great on one side, but really bad on the other. Sure, we may gain more Hive Power, but it's worth and weight is less all the time.

With that sad state of affairs, and given that my vote weight is almost useless as of late, I'm strongly considering investing a fair bit more into HP leasing, to notably increase my daily SWAP.HIVE income, which I've been using to continue increasing my liquidity in assorted excellent diesel/liquidity pools, to seed liquidity in new pools, and to acquire various solid income tokens. Basically it funds my ongoing Hive-Engine layer-2 investments, which is what allows me to leverage off-chain-linked crypto assets, as well as tokens that are backed by RWAs (Real-world Assets), so as not to be limited by Hive's current abysmal economic conditions.

The irony is that this is the role that Hive and its assets were supposed to play, as a life raft for people struggling in horrible local finacial circumstances, to help them rise above them. Now we have to go outside of Hive to do the same, because our internal economy is just not working.

The extra SWAP.HIVE every day from larger HP leases would come very much in handy, as I've already got multiple areas that need much more investment liquidity. Yes, my curation rewards would go down, but with how quickly HP is increasing now, it should balance it out a bit, plus I think that the usefulness of my layer-2 investments would make it worth it.

I'd choose HP leases that would be renewed every month, like those from the CENT project, so I wouldn't have to keep reviewing and updating my lease delegations as often, even if the APR would likely be a little lower. A solid, consistent, stable, dependable, and reliable daily SWAP.HIVE income is what I need, and this is a way to make it happen.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I completed that to my satisfaction (not easy under cloudy, rainy conditions), I harvested a banana rack that was ready, and when it started raining again, I helped a fellow here with an internet-connection problem on his computer. The issue turned out to be the very old version of Windows that was installed, so with his go ahead, I tested then installed Solus Linux in place of Windows, which solved his internet issue, and it gave me the pleasure of wiping Windows from another SSD, and replacing it with Linux, which is always fun. After wrapping the up, I turned on the generator (due to another densely-cloudy day), made myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned ground beef, eggs, onions, tomatoes, longevity spinach leaves, pepperjack cheese, olive oil, and sea salt) in the new kitchen space, 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 got everything done by a little before 10PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed by just after 11PM. I woke up just before 3AM, and unable to sleep, I fiddled on Hive and Qortal for about an hour before making another mostly-unsuccessful attempt at sleep. I woke up again just after 8AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the new kitchen, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1:15PM, so it's a wonderful 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 version 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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