I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1475 - My New Way to Leverage DBOND-DAB, and 'We Are Alive Tribe' Per-Account Self-Sufficiency - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, August 2, 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: 27.63%

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

In my post yesterday I mentioned that I was considering beginning to keep 50% of my DAB staked, to grow DBOND more quickly, with the other half kept in liquid form, to receive the daily HIVE payouts, and that's exactly what I ended up doing. In the process of increasing my staked DAB by many times, I've also increased how quickly DBOND accumulates. My DBOND income now comes from 4 sources: my substantial HP delegation of over 10,600 HP to @dab-vote, the 201+ RUG tokens in my wallet, my 1,009+ staked DBOND, and my strongly-augmented staked DAB, that jumped from just over 6 staked to 88.5 staked.

Yes, the daily HIVE payouts from holding liquid DAB are very useful indeed, but DAB is not fully backed by HIVE/SWAP.HIVE, whereas DBOND is, so it behooves me to make growing my staked DBOND a high priority. Doing so not only continues to grow my DAB income, but it's also my way of getting ahead of if and when the DBOND-DAB-RUG project is brought to a close, so that no matter what happens, I'll be in a good position.

I also mentioned that I really want to implement this for the We Are Alive Tribe as well, but given that the HIVE from our liquid DAB is currently very helpful in my focused endeavor to grow our HP delegation to Bradley, @bradleyarrow, and thus our daily HIVE income from this source, I'm not going to do it just yet. When I do start doing this for the We Are Alive, I'll very likely begin to do so quite slowly, a little bit at a time, so as to not drastically lower our daily HIVE income (it would only be temporary even if I did).

This is actually a good use for the liquid DAB that I'll soon be loaning to @aliveandthriving and @aliveandsocial, to bolster the liquid DAB, and to compensate for me beginning to stake some of our DAB. It will allow me/us to accelerate the growth of our staked DBOND, without decreasing our daily HIVE payouts. I like that idea indeed. At some point, when our DBOND and DAB holding, and our HIVE income, are far more substantial, then I can pay myself back for the DAB that I loaned. That will take some time, however.

One other very-useful thing that I'm now in the process of implementing for the We Are Alive Tribe is per-account sustainability and self-sufficiency, especially for our two payout accounts, @aliveandthriving and @aliveandsocial, as well as for our tipping bot, @youarealive, and our contest account, @alive.chat. I'm doing this with a focus on HIVE and ALIVE at the moment, but especially for @alive.chat, I'd like to do so for other useful tokens as well, to minimize the necessity for me needing to manually transfer tokens each week. I know that there are no HIVE payouts for everyone at the moment, and that the market price of ALIVE is quite low, but I want to let y'all know that we're in the midst of a solid growth phase, which will assist us immensely at some point soon.

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my more-numerous Sunday Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2:45PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first, and then to some sunbathing on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn. I do my best not to get wrapped up in work projects on Sundays, choosing instead sunbathing (when there's sunshine) and quiet photo walks around the property, and sometimes down our jungle road, which is exactly what I ended up doing yesterday. I finally headed to Wabisabi in the early evening to make Avi (who's paying me to do so) some food, to make myself some food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before returning to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by a little after 10:15PM, and after scanning my X feed for a bit, I went to sleep by just after 11PM. I woke up about just after 7AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi (with a food-supply run to Tutu's), then heading back to the Flow House to begin this post. It's now just after 12:30PM, so it's a fantastic 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 (I'm multiple days ahead at the moment), and then on some jungle-community/land work and tasks. 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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