I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1486 - 74 Reputation Achieved, and HBD Is Nearing Depeg - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, August 13, 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: 28.29%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0390 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.972 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.01021644 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.1702443 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00070454 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.206699 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001151 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 62,911.40 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 203.15 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 43.59 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,372.46 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 64.72 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #122 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#97 (among active witnesses only)/861.6k HP in votes/44 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Much to my happy surprise, I reached a notable 74 Reputation last night. I've been building and growing my account for almost 5 years now, and it's really only now that I'm noticing just how far I've come, and not just with reputation, but across the board.

I should reach 35,100 HP by early this coming week, with 36,000 HP coming before the end of next month. With the APR for HP now at 5.24%, the highest it's ever been, Hive Power is also growing faster than ever before. I wish that were because of a healthy economic and financial framework on Hive, but sadly it's due to the opposite.

As HIVE's fiat-dollar price continues its seemingly endless decline, the APR for HP keeps rising, as does the Hive Debt, which is already now past 28%, so only 2% to go before HBD loses its peg to the US Dollar. If the current pattern that I've been seeing continues, and I've seen nothing to suggest that it won't, HBD will lose peg in perhaps a month to a month and a half.

With that being the case, I made the decision to withdraw the small bit of HBD that the We Are Alive Tribe has in Savings on two accounts, totally around 16 HBD, and to swap it for HIVE, to then power it up and delegate it to Bradley (@bradleyarrow), which would give it a very good boost. I really wish HBD could be left in Savings, both on my account, and on various 'We Are Alive Tribe' accounts, but with the current trajectory, it's pretty obvious that this would not be a good decision, at least not in the short term. If HIVE's price goes up strongly again, and if HBD regains its peg with the dollar, both of which are very big ifs at this point, then HBD in Savings would be very useful again. I pray that it goes in that direction at some point very soon.

That small chunk of HBD would yield a good amount of HIVE, which when delegated to Bradley would give our daily HIVE income a nice bump. That is a better use of it than leaving it in Savings I'd say, especially if it does depeg, which looks like what's going to happen quite soon. Even as Hive's economy and financial framework continue to disintegrate, I keep moving forward, building and growing, for one and all, undaunted.

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 2:45PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to attempt (unsuccessfully) to upgrade the RAM on two of Avi's laptops (sadly the systems were too old for the spare RAM modules that I had available). With those completed, I got my machete and some gloves, and I went to clear and weed around a bunch of young papayas in the durian orchard. Once I had that done, I took a shower, made myself some food in Wabisabi, and collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before heading back to the Flow House to scan my X feed for a bit, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I had a lot of notifications again, and although I came very close, I finally had to stop by around 11PM, to do one more scan of my X feed, and to go to bed by about 12AM. I woke up just after 8AM, still feeling that I needed a bit more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1PM, so it's quite a 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 assisting to batten down the hatches in preparation for the incoming tropical storm. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation 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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