I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1528 - Hive's Economy Finally Seems to Be Improving! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, September 24, 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 8 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: 20.94%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0575 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.001 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price:  0.10617841 ALIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.01089783 SWAP.HIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00099621 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.207675 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001347 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 83,983.49 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 340.59 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 71.26 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,286.76 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 64.41 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #120 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#95 (among active witnesses only)/1.0m HP in votes/50 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Although it seemed like it would never happen, it does indeed appear that Hive's previously abysmal, ever-downtrending economic conditions are finally turning around and improving. I noticed it about a month ago, and the new positive trajectory has continued to today, which is exceedingly good news.

As of this morning, the Hive Debt ratio has fallen to 20.94%, so it's approaching the 20% threshold again, but this time going in the opposite direction. This is very good indeed, and it means that if it drops below 20%, then HBD will begin to be distributed once again in post payouts.

The APR for Hive Power, as of this morning, is 4.32%, which is far below its highest level of 5.32% that I saw last month. That's also very good. Yes, it means that our Hive Power grows more slowly, but it's the sign of a healthier economic system, so we definitely want it to continue falling, along with the Hive Debt ratio.

With these new beneficial trends, we're now all seeing increasing asset values, and that our vote weights are becoming stronger. While Hive isn't out of the woods yet, we're now moving in a good direction, which is glorious to see.

I surpassed 36,200 Hive Power yesterday afternoon, as expected, and I will easily smash 36,300 Hive Power by around the middle of the coming week, so even with the falling APR for HP, it's still growing at a very nice pace. If the Hive Debt ratio falls below 20%, and HBD begins to be distributed again in post rewards, then I'll most likely begin depositing all incoming HBD into Savings again, to begin the process of building it for another round.

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 3PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to moving a small freezer, with Avi's assistance, from the Kuti to Wabisabi, to use it as a refrigerator until the larger fridge that died is fixed or replaced. I also moved all the perishible food that we had put in the fridges at Tutu's to the small freezer (converted to a refrigerator via a charge controller and a connected thermometer). With that completed, I went back to the Flow House to find and analize the current data for tropical storm Nolo, to better gauge how best to prepare, and with that updated information, I moved my technology from the Flow House to the Kazbah again, and I battened down the Flow House the best that I could. With all that finally finished, I went to Wabisabi to make Avi (who's paying me to do so) and myself some food, after which I shared the meal with Avi and Michael, before collecting my leftover superfood fire coffee from the temporary refrigerator, and heading to the Kazbah, to begin my evening Hive tasks, and to work with Hermes some more. I got through all of my notifications by just before 10:45PM, and after working with Hermes for a while, I went to bed, a bit on the late side, by around 12:15AM. I woke up around 8AM to the generator running (our solar electric batteries crashed again, even after running the generator for a good while last night), and after assisting Avi and Ano with an issue with the generator, I returned to the Kazbah to get my Qortal node back online (I missed yet another daily QORT payout, dagnabit!). After my laptop was set to go again, I went to Wabisabi to make my superfood fire coffee, and then I returned to the Kazbah to work with Hermes a bit more, and to write this post. It seems that the tropical storm/hurricane will be mostly passing us, which is excellent news indeed. It's now just after 1:30PM, so it's a very 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 some jungle-community/land work and tasks, possibly including moving myself and my tech back to the Flow House. 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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