I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1420 - Hive Is Right on the Edge Between Breakdown and Breakthrough - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, June 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: 26.10%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.047 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.966 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price:  0.0219941 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.11039566 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00079072 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.133554 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001511 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 62,078.20 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 205.11 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 43.415 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,256.96 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 65.34 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #126 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#100 (among active witnesses only)/644.1k HP in votes/50 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I love Hive, and I have pretty much since I first arrived here, as in so many ways its absolutely revolutionary, but anyone who's even remotely paying attention can clearly see that our beloved Blockchain has some critical issues, and while there has been effort to mitigate them, they have been, in large part, ineffective. Hive's core economic model just does not work, as much as that pains me to say.

Pegging a core layer-1 Hive asset, HBD, to a guaranteed-to-decline fiat currency (unless it returns to RWA-backing with gold and/or silver), the US Dollar, which is based on unpayable debt, and then having that represent Hive debt (potential or virtual HIVE), with HIVE itself being an unlimited asset with no maximum supply, is just a really bad idea, and one that I would call a recipe for disaster. Unless certain essential changes are made quite soon, this will eventually lead to the practical death of Hive. The fiat-dollar price of HIVE is the lowest that it's ever been since arriving on the Blockchain 4 years, 8 months, and 17 days ago (1,720 days in total), and given that it has only been declining in that time, I'm sure that pretty much everyone else here could say the same thing.

How do we successfully invest, leverage, and grow assets in any meaningful way over the long term when the core assets on which we depend, and by which we measure value within the entire ecosystem in which we operate, continues to decline? That's a question that I still need to answer for myself.

I'm still here every day, though, doing what I do, and giving my all, for all of us. I'd be lying if I said that so much of what I'm seeing now doesn't make me feel quite sad and depressed, because yeah, it really does, because I've given years of my life to this Blockchain Ecosystem, and to see how far it's fallen is truly deeply heartbreaking.

Will Hive survive? Will it ever thrive again? Without core changes and shifts, and without necessary realignment and reorientation, no, not in any meaningful way, I'm sorry to say. So like so much in our world at this point in time, Hive also finds itself at the very edge between complete breakdown, and a transformative breakthrough and rebirth. As you might guess, I'm focused on the second option.

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little before 3PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first, and then to some jungle-community tasks, including assisting Braja with a few small tasks at her place, collecting food supplies from Tutu's to restock Wabisabi, scoping out new land-work projects for the week, and sharpening a few new Fijian machetes. Once I had all those completed, I made myself some food in Wabisabi, I collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to do a bit more agentic-AI research. I got through all of my notifications very early, by about 8:30PM, and after a good bit more agentic-AI research, I went to bed by around 11:15PM. I woke up around 6AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write and publish my weekly-goals-and-progress update, and then to write this post. It's now just after 12:30PM, so it's a really 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 some jungle-community/land work and tasks (hopefully not in the rain). 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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