I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1492 - 35.2k HP and BPUD Today, and Lots of Asset-Management Tweaks as of Late - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, August 19, 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: 28.71%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0410 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.965 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.01005129 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.16797486 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00079854 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.200000 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001177 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 72,507.85 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 221.54 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 48.09 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,520.13 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 67.98 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #122 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#98 (among active witnesses only)/880k HP in votes/45 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I'm currently sitting right on the edge of 35,200 Hive Power, which I'll easily notably surpass today. 35,300 HP will also be incoming at the beginning of the coming week. Faster and faster it goes.

It's BBHO Powerup Day today, so just before starting on this post, I powered up 465 BBHO, and I wrote and published my post about it, of course. The recent BBHO Halving has affected my BBHO income substantially, with it coming in a lot more slowly now. I'm really glad that I dove into acquiring a good amount of it years ago!

With the ongoing decline of the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem and its base assets it is, as I've mentioned many times already, becoming increasingly challlenging, with things often changing quite quickly. What was true yesterday may not at all be true today. As such, I've found myself making a goodly number of tweaks to how I manage certain assets over the past few months. I'm still diving deep into liquidity pools, but I'm also staking more tokens now too.

I used to add all CENT, PIMP, and SPORTS into assorted liquidity pools, but now there is benefit to staking a portion of them too. This week the first round of staking rewards will be going out for staked CENT (CENT just switched from delegation rewards to staking rewards), which I believe will be SWAP.HBD. I've begun to stake SPORTS because it can be delegated to @centtoken for weekly CENT payouts. I'm staking a lot more PIMP now as well, since I noticed on my own account that I was beginning to receive sporadic payouts of HIVE for my 5k+ staked PIMP, and because its market price has been declining notably, so I was losing value in its PIMP:SWAP.HIVE pool. I haven't removed any liquidity from the pool, I'm just staking most of the PIMP that I receive currently.

One reason that I've been letting SWAP.HIVE accumulate on my own account before I do a round of pool management, other than the fact that my present SWAP.HIVE income is quite modest, is because once I'm done, I use the rest of it to swap for LBI, which then goes into its various active pools. LBI held in wallets, and in active liquidity pools, both earn weekly payouts in SWAP.HBD. While HBD holds its peg to the Dollar, that SWAP.HBD is still very useful. If HBD does lose its peg, which it will likely do in about a month to a month and a half, then SWAP.BTC would be a better option to both distribute and to hold.

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just before 2:15PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I had a nice batch of shots, I went to help Ano move a two large sections of ground cloth, and to do some more cane-grass clearing, in the citrus orchard, and after a shower and a short break up at the Flow House, I assisted him in continuing to test different sections of an electrical line that has been out since the hurricane. With that finally completed for the day (there's still more testing to do in one structure), I made myself some food, and I collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, in Wabisabi, before heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just before 9:45PM, and after a quick scan of my X feed, I went to bed by just before 10:45PM. I woke up just before 7AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to power up my liquid BBHO and to write a post about it, and to write this post. It's now just before 1:15PM, so it's marvelous 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 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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