I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #866 - Another Non-KYC Crypto Centralized Exchange Bites the Dust - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Tuesday, December 10, 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

While I have no love for centralized crypto exchanges, and I use them as little as possible, some like Bitforex, were more tolerable because they didn't require KYC (Know Your Customer) verification to deposit, trade, or withdraw crypto assets. Since my holding of PKOIN that I've been growing again on Bastyon is beginning to move into a range where I might consider selling some (to then invest more into Hive), I went to log in to Bitforex (one of two exchanges where PKOIN was traded) yesterday to check the status of my account. Much to my chagrin, I learned that on February 23 the Bitforex team was arrested by Chinese authorities, causing all deposits, trades, and withdrawls to halt. The Bitforex team later announced that the echange would be opening again in July, but only for withdrawls initially, until their entire system is overhauled, and to introduce KYC verification. Damn, another good exchange lost to tyrannical governmental overreach.

Seeing as how Bitforex was the only place that I could sell PKOIN, to then buy assets like LTC to to send to Hive, the loss of this exchange hits hard. I refuse to give into KYC nonsense, so I won't sign up for any other exchanges that require it. I really wish that Bastyon had a decentralized way to trade PKOIN, so that I didn't have to go through a centralized exchange.

That's one thing for which I'm very grateful about Hive, Qortal, and DeSo, that they all have their own internal decentralized exchanges through which one can receive, trade, and withdraw their own respective assets, as well as various off-chain crypto assets, making it easy to transfer crypto assets across blockchains. I think that all blockchains should have this feature and capacity, as it opens the way for their coins and tokens to become a viable form of usable currency.

My friend Bryan (who lives part of the year at GaiaYoga), who gave me a very nice thank-you gift (that I invested into Hive) for some helpful crypto investing suggestions, told me that his account on Binance-US was no longer allowed to trade, since they appear to be shutting down business with US customers. That's quite unfortunate, but it seems to be a very common thing as of late. This and the above-mentioned events with Bitforex highlight and exemplify exactly why self-custodial wallets, where we own and control our keys, like we have here on Hive, and that are also present on Bastyon, DeSo, and Qortal, are so incredibly important, even essential. If we own our keys, we own our crypto assets, and we can use them in any way that we want, without the possibility of them being seized or frozen, completely outside of the control of banks or governments, as it should be.

Hive is part of a massive (r)evolution, along with Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon, to take our power, freedom, responsibility, self-determination, and sovereignty back, by taking back control of our money. Those who have controlled and used money as means of enslavement for so long, and who are now losing power everywhere, and very quickly, will do everything that they can to stop the liberation of the peoples of the world, and therefor the liberation of currencies. It's up to us whether we choose to give in to their insidious demands, or to ignore, resist, and circumvent them, as we create our own systems of financial abundance and freedom. I don't know about you, but I choose the latter, and without a second thought.

Yesterday, Tuesday, I left the Flow House, once I had finished up my Hive tasks, just a a little before 2:45PM, putting my focus first on a little photography for these posts. When most of my photo-taking was done (I did get a few good shots just before sunset), I went to Tutu's to do the dry-goods order. With that completed, I took a short break up at the Flow House to do a little token management, and then I got my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted foliage for cow-milking food, which I finished as the sun was going down behind the horizon. With that done, I took a shower, then I went to the Landing to cook up more of the tuna that I had been marinating since yesterday, and with food, and my leftover jar of superfood fire coffee in hand (or hands), I returned to the Flow House to get into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications, of which there were many. Since I had so many notifications, I didn't get through them all until around 12:15AM, at which point I did a little token management, and then I went to bed, by just after 12:30AM. I did sleep pretty well, thankfully, waking up around 7:30AM, doing another round of token management, starting on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk the cow. Jo left for the mainland early in the morning, so today was the first time milking with Hans (a jungle neighbor that offered to help), and super thankfully everything flowed pretty smoothly, though it did take a little longer, as he was still getting used to it again. Of the gallon and a half of milk that is produced each day, he gets half a gallon every day as compensation for his milking assistance. After milking was done, I headed back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:15PM, so a great time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to first focus on more photography for these posts, and for my entry in the Shadow Hunters Contest, straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my entry for the Shadow Hunters Contest (hopefully) later today, and the next edition of this post tomorrow afternoon! 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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