I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1430 - BEE, HSBIDAO, LBI, and a Way Forward for the ALIVE Dividends - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, June 18, 2026

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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: 25.13%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0481 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.980 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.02315956 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.10558742 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00070078 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.146607 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001372 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 62,983.70 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 197.24 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 43.92 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,160.68 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 64.87 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #125 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#99 (among active witnesses only)/655.1k HP in votes/50 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Since losing the majority of our daily and weekly HIVE and SWAP.HIVE income for the We Are Alive Tribe a few months ago, and operating in the red from that point to today, I've been considering various possible ways to be able to continue with the daily payouts of HIVE in our ALIVE dividends, and given the state of the Hive economy, that endeavor has been really quite challenging indeed. Our 20.4k staked BEE on @aliveandsocial is currently our strongest point of leverage (we're #5 on the BEE richlist), representing about $552 in fiat-dollar value at the current prices, and which continues to grow fairly quickly (we'll be at 20.5k staked BEE quite soon).

As our staked BEE keeps rising, our income of liquid BEE also continues to grow, and that can be used in various useful ways, from pool creation and liquidity-reward management (which is a high priority right now with our upcoming ALIVE:LBI pool, in collaboration with @lbi-token), swapping to HIVE or SWAP.HIVE (among other useful and valuable assets), or even sending out directly in our ALIVE dividends. Some of our staked BEE can also be delegated to @centtoken, via accepting leases from @centtoken on Hive Engine, for daily payouts of BEE or SWAP.HIVE, with the SWAP.HIVE option being particularly interesting.

HSBIDAO and LBI are also strongly in my focus, as they are both layer-2 assets that are run and managed in a very solid manner, and which have held their value very well indeed. Both on my own account, and on two 'We Are Alive Tribe' accounts, I've begun to acquire as many of both as I'm able, to add them to their assorted respective pools, and to their shared HSBIDAO:LBI pool. The dividends from holding HSBIDAO, either in wallets or pools, exceed what the equivalent value of Hive Power would earn from curation, which is quite significant. Holding LBI, also in either wallets or pools, earns weekly SWAP.HBD dividends, which also very much comes in handy in multiple ways.

Given that HSBIDAO is a self-growing asset, so just holding it earns more, if I'm able to acquire enough, our weekly HSBIDAO income could also, at some point, be used to either swap for HIVE or SWAP.HIVE, or be used to send out in our ALIVE dividends. There is also now an option available to delegate HP to @steembasicincome, to receive even more HSBIDAO, of which I plan to make use as soon as it's feasible, on my own account, and possibly on 'We Are Alive Tribe' accounts as well (especially considering that the earnings from HSBIDAO surpass HP curation rewards).

Our holding and stake of DAB and DBOND also continue to grow week to week, though not quickly enough to compensate for our lost weekly HIVE income, from our @bee.voter delegation, in time before our big chunk of HIVE runs out. Because of that, and the fact that the We Are Alive Tribe cannot rely on only one project for our essential income streams, HSBIDAO and LBI are now my main investment focuses, with the intention of acquiring several thousand of each of these tokens, very hopefully before the end do the year.

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House (the first time, anyway), after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 1:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and to doing a food-supply run to Tutu's to restock Wabisabi. I also squeezed in shutting down my laptop to clone the current Artix Linux installation that I've been using for the past several months. After I had all that done, I dug another round of planting holes along the side trail between the Kasbah and Elohi's hut. Once I had that completed, I took a shower, I dried off laying in the sun on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn, and finally I heated myself up some food in Wabisabi, and with that and my leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I headed back to the Flow House, to do a bit more research into llama.cpp build and run flags, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just after 10:30PM, and after a little asset management, and scanning my X feed, I went to bed by around 11:45PM. I woke up a bit before 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee, and breakfast, in Wabisabi, before returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:45PM, so it's quite an excellent time to wrap this up, 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. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my BPUD post either some time tonight or tomorrow morning, and the next version 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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