I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #995 - BBHO Powerup Day Today, and SWAP.BLURT Cross-Chain Synergy! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, April 18, 2025

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 6 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Happy BBHO Powerup Day! While it's still Saturday, April 19th here, BPUD arrives in my part of the world at 2PM (when UTC switches to a new day), so I'll be powering up the 350+ BBHO, that I've been saving up over the last month, at some point in the early evening. Added to the BBHO that I already have staked, this powerup will take me past 6,000 staked BBHO. I've made two good investments into BBHO so far, and I intend to do so again when available liquidity permits.

My goal for the year is to reach 20,000 staked BBHO, which is the threshold for the last dividend tier, which pays out DUO, BRO, and SWAP.BTC (I'm also receiving SWAP.BTC from my staked SBT). Thankfully BBHO grows pretty quickly, so that goal should be achievable before the end of the year. I'd like to participate in the CENT and PEPE Powerup Days as well, and I probably will at some point, but presently all my liquid CENT and PEPE go into diesel/liquidity pools.

As I've spent more time exploring on the Blurt Blockchain, I'm discovering some useful ways to grow my BLURT holding and stake (both are necessary, because liquid BLURT is used for transaction fees), and one great one, which was shared with me by @offgridlife, actually leverages assets here on Hive, via Hive Engine. By providing a certain level of liquidity (at least 1,000 BLURT) in any of the SWAP.BLURT pools (of which there are 11: SWAP.BLURT:AFIT, SWAP.BLURT:BEE, SWAP.BLURT:SWAP.BNB, SWAP.BLURT:SWAP.BTC, SWAP.BLURT:SWAP.ETH, SWAP.BLURT:SWAP.LTC, SWAP.BLURT:SPORTS, SWAP.BLURT:SWAP.STEEM, and SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BLURT), and registering with the service, one can receive daily payouts in liquid BLURT, on Blurt.

I've already started to add liquidity to the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BLURT pool, but since the present price of the minimum 1,000 BLURT is around 8.5 SWAP.HIVE, and I'd need an equivalent amount of SWAP.HIVE to add it to the pool, it will take me a little time to get to 1,000 BLURT. Once I am able to get that pool past the payout threshold, I'll begin adding liquidity into some of the others as well.

Providing liquidity in the SWAP.BLURT pools is indeed quite mutually beneficial (isn't it wonderful when things are like that?), because in addition to receiving BLURT daily, which could be sent to Hive Engine to add to the pools, or kept on Blurt to be powered up and/or kept in liquid form for transaction fees, it also helps to stabilize and maintain the price of BLURT, not only within the Hive Ecosystem, but between blockchain ecosystems as well. That's win-win for everyone, so moving forward I intend to add and grow my liquidity in all the SWAP.BLURT pools over time, as my resources permit. This is the sort of cross-blockchain synergy that I absolutely love!

Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, quite late (I had a lot to do), just before 3PM, and while I wanted to focus on a little photography for these posts first, the sun wasn't being very cooperative, so I ended up taking only a few, and then straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing. When I had that done, I potted up some cuttings of various medicinal plants in my (recently reclaimed) nursery behind the Landing, and in a moment of inspired action, I planted four bamboo plants, of three different species, at two locations off-property, where I had a feeling that they would do well. I'd been meaning to do that for quite some time, so it felt very satisfying once I'd finished. After my bamboo-planting adventure, I took a shower, made myself some food (spiced and seasoned mini beef patties, with pepperjack cheese, and mixed mustards) in the Landing, and with that and my jar of superfood fire coffee in hand, I headed back to the Flow House, to get into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got everything done by around 10:30PM, and after some asset management, responding to notifications on Blurt, and voting for @ecency on TheDappList.com (you should too!), I went to bed just after 12AM. I woke up just a little before 7AM, still feeling that I needed more sleep, doing more asset management, beginning on this post, then getting out of bed around 8:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, before returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 12:45AM, 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 bit later in the afternoon, to first focus on photography for these posts and for my entry in the Reflection Hunters Contest, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my BBHO Powerup post and my entry for the Reflection Hunters Contest later this evening, and the next expression of this post tomorrow! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 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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