I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1490 - An Excellent Boost to Our 'We Are Alive Tribe' Daily HIVE Income - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, August 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: 28.73%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0380 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.951 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.01026808 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.16776096 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00071346 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.202642 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001153 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 64,711 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 204.36 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 44.54 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,354.76 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 63.80 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #122 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#97 (among active witnesses only)/867.2k HP in votes/45 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

With HBD coming so perilously close to losing its peg to the US Dollar, I've begun to take preemptive action with the HBD in Savings on all of our 'We Are Alive Tribe' accounts, by withdrawing it and swapping it for HIVE, to then power it up and delegsred to Bradley (@bradleyarrow), to strongly boost our daily HIVE income. The one exception to that was the 23+ HBD that Ben had on @heartbeatonhive, which I swapped for SWAP.BTC instead, until he's able to decide what he wants to do with it. There was a slight problem with the swapping process, with the SWAP.BTC not showing up in the wallet yet, but I'm working to resolve that now.

The 12+ HBD that was on @alive.chat was swapped for over 320 HIVE, which when powered up on @aliveandthriving and delegated to Bradley, gave us a new delegation amount of over 486 HP. That should bring us into the range of about 0.140 HIVE received daily. That powerup also took @aliveandthriving past 3,160 HP, which now has the most HP of any 'We Are Alive Tribe' account.

There's still a bit over 4 HBD still in Savings on @aliveandthriving that I have to withdraw tomorrow morning, right after the last interest claim. At the current prices, that 4+ HBD should give us just about 100 HIVE, so another nice boost to @aliveandthriving's HP, to Bradley's HP delegation, and with it, to our HIVE income, is incoming. That will get us very close to the amount of HP that I have delegated to Bradley on my own account.

Between the daily payouts from our liquid DAB on @aliveandthriving and @aliveandsocial, the daily payouts from our HP delegation to Bradley, and the daily payouts from our HP delegation to Bradley, our HIVE income is now within the range of around 0.680 HIVE daily. That's not counting the variable amount of HIVE that comes in from post payouts on @aliveandthriving, @alive.chat, and @youarealive, so we're approaching 1 HIVE per day. Now I just have to multiply that times 10.

That HIVE income is also not counting the nice chunk of HSBIDAO that is growing quite rapidly on @aliveandthriving, of which there is now over 1,068 HSBIDAO (both in the wallet, and in a couple HSBIDAO pools), each of which is equal to about 0.5 HIVE/SWAP.HIVE. Most of the growth in our HSBIDAO holding is coming from our delegation of 2k HP to @steembasicincome, with the rest coming from the quantity of our holding, which will increase over time. Yes, I do still have a long way to go, but I've built a more sold, diverse base for our weekly HIVE income, that I will continue to grow daily.

Yesterday, Monday, 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. Once I had a nice batch taken, I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, I harvested two racks of bananas, and a little later, after a break up at the Flow House, I helped Ano to continue troubleshooting the electrical issue on one of our electric lines. That took quite a while, after which I went to Wabisabi to maky myself some food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just before 9AM, and after scanning my X feed for a while, I went to bed by just after 11PM. I woke up just before 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write and publish my Weekly-Hive-Goals-and-Progress Update, and to write this post. It's now just after 1PM, so it's a lovely 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. 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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