I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1389 - Hive Engine Hacked, Backing for Off-Chain Assets Drained, and the Ramifications - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, May 17, 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: 23.29%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.059 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.983 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price:  0.0193556 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.10769581 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00098796 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.124329 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001603 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 76,828.9 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 378.39 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 54.185 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,579.80 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 78.20 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #130 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#100 (among active witnesses only)/476.7k HP in votes/49 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I don't have the best news to share today, sadly, so I'll just get right into it. Hive Engine was hacked last night via an EVM bridge, and the backing assets for SWAP.ETH, SWAP.SOL, SWAP.USDT, SWAP.BNB, and SWAP.GUFU were drained, making them worthless. I won't go into any great detail about how bad this is for the greater Hive Eosystem, rather choosing to focus instead on the significant collateral damage that directly affects the We Are Alive Tribe.

I removed liquidty from all SWAP.ETH and SWAP.USDT pools on my account and on three community accounts, @aliveandthriving, @heartbeatvault01, and @heartbeatonhive, and I swapped the SWAP.ETH and SWAP.USDT for other useful layer-2 assets. We didn't have a large amount in the affected pools, so this hack didn't cause much direct damage, thankfully. The collateral damage, and the ramifications of those, is another story, however.

Because of the hack on Hive Engine, the HIVE-for-BEE @bee.voter delegation service was discontinued, which hits very hard indeed, as that was The We Are Alive Tribe's primary source for HIVE weekly. With that now gone, our weekly HIVE income doesn't even come close to being able to cover all the HIVE that we're sending out for payments to HP delegators, or in the daily ALIVE dividends, which means that when the chunk of HIVE on @hive-155221 runs out, we are going to have to make some notable changes, including strongly lowering the amount of HIVE that we send out weekly to HP delegators and in the ALIVE dividends. We still have a little buffer but it's going to dwindle fast. That seriously sucks, and I have no clue yet how to compensate.

With the loss of our primary weekly HIVE income from our delegation of 20.4k BEE to @bee.voter, and the recent loss of our daily SWAP.HIVE income from the end of the PWR project and its SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, we're not in a good place in terms of financial sustainability, or in terms of our available investment liquidity. It seems like every solid source if income is being cut off, one by one, with very few viable ones left.

There is one good thing in all of this, however. Since I've recalled the BEE delegations on my account, and on various community accounts, we're going to have a whole lot more BEE coming in and available to use, especially from the 20.4k staked BEE on @aliveandsocial. With the strongly-increased BEE income, we'll have much more to create and manage new 'We Are Alive Tribe' liquidity pools, and potentially to use for paying HP delegators and to send out in the daily ALIVE dividends. That's just an idea, and I'll have to see exactly what our weekly BEE income would be with such an increase in staked BEE across our various community accounts. I'll do my best, my friends.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after completing most of my numerous important Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 3:30PM, giving my attention first to collecting a few food supplies for Wabisabi from Tutu's, and to some photography for my posts. It rained all day, so with no inspiration to work outside, I headed back to the Flow House early, after turning on the generator, making myself some food in Wabisabi, and collecting my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge there. I got through all of my notifications fairly late, by bit after 10:30PM, and after a little agentic-AI research, and working with Hermes a bit more, I went to bed by just after 12AM. I woke up a bit before 7AM, having slept fairly well, hearing about the Hive-Engine hack, beginning to reallocate assets because of it, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to reallocate more assets, to work with Hermes some more, to prepare my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update to write later, and finally to write this post. It's now just after 1PM, so it's a very 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 after, to focus first on some photography for my posts, and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update hopefully later this evening or tomorow morning, and the next incarnation of these posts tomorrow afternoon! 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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