I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #750 - My 5 Crypto Rules - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, August 16, 2024

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 5 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Blockchain technology, and the countless cryptocurrencies based upon it, which collectively are simply known as crypto, have had a massive effect on the world, and in a multitude of ways, from the economy and finance, to voting and governance. As I've explained in many previous posts, however, all crypto is not the same, with most of the present iterations not being worth people's time or investment. It's not the thing, but how it's done, and many are done quite poorly, with some even being downright pernicious. As with a anything (especially now), discernment is key.

From various years of experience in the cryptoverse, and after much trial and error, there are certain principles that I've found to be exceedingly important when it comes to deciding in which crypto projects to invest my time and resources. These principles, or guidelines, are so significant that they could perhaps even be called rules, keeping us in more-safe, secure, and and trustworthy crypto waters.

First, if our crypto is headed by one individual, company/corporation, or even worse a government (no CBDCs for me, thanks), it's time to look for another. So the first rule is that any cryptocurrency that we choose must be community-based. Community created, developed, run, managed, governed, the whole nine yards. In line with this, the second rule is that our blockchain of interest must be as fully decentralized, or even better distributed, across many countries and people. This makes a network basically unstoppable. The third rule is that the software upon which our blockchain-of-choice is based is as fully open-source as possible. Open-source software can be audited by anyone with the proper skill to see exactly what it's doing behind the scenes, so insidious tomfoolery is far less likely. The fourth rule would be that our chosen crypto should exist on at least one decentralized exchange (DEX), either on its own chain, or another. The fifth rule might be the most important of all, that we must own the keys of our crypto assets. The saying, 'not your keys, not your crypto', perfectly highlights the importance of this rule. If we don't own our our keys, 'our' crypto ain't really ours. Those are my five basic crypto rules that I use to help guide and orient me in the crypto world.

One thing that will become quite apparent as we go through these guiding principles, is that Hive meets and is aligned with all of them, and quite well indeed. The more that I've learned about Hive, the more that I've come to appreciate it, because in the greater crypto space, it's something truly exceptional. This is what fuels my daily passion, commitment, dedication, determination, perseverance, persistence, and tenacity. I hope that you've found my 5 crypto rules helpful and useful, and if you have any that you've found important, but that I didn't mention, I'd love to hear them in the comments!

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, a bit later than usual, around 2:45PM, after wrapping up my Hive tasks. My daily task of straining out and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao), was done first, as usual. With kefir done, I devoted some time to walking around the property to take photos for these posts, and some shots for my entry in the Shadow Hunters Contest, while the sun was out. Once I had that done, I got my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of Melochia and gunpowder-tree leaves for cow-milking food. After collecting cow food, I took a shower, then I sunbathed on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn for a short time, in the last rays of sun of the day. While I had intended to get back to weeding both the planting bed that I had started next to the Peanut Lawn, and in the fenced garden, it was already getting a bit late, and I was getting hungry, so I decided to use my time to make myself one of my kickass cheeseburgers, which I enjoyed, along with my leftover superfood fire coffee, back up at the Flow House, as I began to dive into my evening Hive rounds, most of which was catching up on notifications, of which there were a great many. I kept going until I had to make myself go to bed just after 12AM, still 4 hours behind. I did sleep well, very thankfully, waking up just after 8:30AM, doing a round of token management, beginning on this post, then getting out of bed, to go make my superfood fire coffee, just after 9AM.

It's now just after 12:15PM, so quite a good time to end this post, so that I can get to my few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first strain out and blend kefir, hopefully take more photos for these posts, and then land work, which will be collecting more cow food and weeding. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's episode of this post! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart, reignite my heart sun, and embody a solid, healthy masculine, allowing my electric fire to shine bright, no matter what others, especially women, say or do. 

2.) Bring myself and my life back into balance, integration, and wholeness. 

3.) Do regular (naked) integral practices again, alone or with others. 

4.) Dance regularly again.

5.) Work with natural entheogens (mushrooms, ganja, ayahuasca), with punctuated regularity, as a part of my healing process again. 

 6.) Get, and keep, regular deep, integral energy-body-tantric work healing sessions for women flowing again.

7.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again. 

8.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again.

9.) Live as an integral part of a juicy heart-resonant soul tribe community, with deep, coherent mutual and shared passion, purpose, mission, love, warmth, care, sweetness, reverence, respect, aliveness, admiration, excitement, enjoyment, playfulness, work, fun, laughter, attraction, and all-level connections and relationships. 

10.) Make love with the woman, or the women, that I love, every day, as a sacred devotional practice. 

11.) 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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