I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1453 - The HIVE-Distribution Pause Begins Monday, and My Current Plan to Rebuild - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, July 11, 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 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: 25.16%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0491 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.990 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.01457427 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.10665653 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00078596 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.182659 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001344 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 64,160.40 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 246.35 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 44.58 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,108.45 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 59.75 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #123 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#98 (among active witnesses only)/824.4k HP in votes/51 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, today, Sunday, will be the last day that HIVE is distributed in the ALIVE dividends, with last Tuesday also being the last distribution of HIVE to our HP delegators, until I'm able to rebuild some solid community income streams. I don't yet know for how long the pause will be, but they will be reinstated as soon as our income exceeds what I need to allocate each week. When they are reinstated, they will likely be a bit more modest, because I need to do this slowly, so as not to overextended our incoming resources again. Sustaibility, no matter how challenging it is to achieve under Hive's current abysmal economic conditions, is the goal, and for which I'll continue to work.

Keeping our operations sustainable is not an easy task at all as of late with so many projects continuing to fail and fold, with it actually feeling like a frustrating game of whack-a-mole. I'm a determined and tenacious bugger, however, and I don't, and I won't give up, but yeah, this is a formidable endeavor indeed.

At the moment at least, I see the best returns from DBOND-DAB-RUG, HSBIDAO, and HP delegations to Bradley's account (@bradleyarrow), with CENT delegations to @centtoken, which provide weekly payments in HBD, now also on radar. We already have 2,000 HP delegated to @steembasicincome, which is growing our auto-compounding HSBIDAO holding, and I plan to begin delegating to Bradley's account, and acquiring CENT to delegate to @centtoken. On my own account I'll be withdrawing my 655 HBD from Savings in 4 days, swapping it for HIVE (around 13k), powering it up on my account on the August HPUD, delegating a good portion of it to @dab-vote, then loaning incoming DAB to @aliveandthriving. If I can swing it, I may also delegate some HP on one of our community accounts to @dab-vote, to accelerate the process.

I communicated our community's current economic situation, and my plans moving forward to regain financial sustainability, to the fellow who runs the LBI project, and very thankfully he's still keen to create our upcoming shared ALIVE:LBI pool. He is well aware of how difficult it is to create and maintain a sustainable financial framework under Hive's present economic conditions, and his understanding and patience is exceedingly appreciated.

I intend to write and publish an official post about all of this on one of our community accounts as soon as I'm able, so that everyone is aware of what's happening, since I know that sharing this information only in these daily posts is not a particularly effective method of community communication. Things are pretty rough on Hive at the moment, but I want all of you to know that we are not giving up, that we can, and we will surmount the current challenges and obstacles, and that we will come out of it all stronger and more resilient than before. Thank you for your trust, understanding, and patience, my friends.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, a bit on the late side, by a little before 2:45PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, after which I chopped and dumped bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar. I was planning to dig some more planting holes in the durian orchard, but instead I ended up getting into a quite long and interesting conversation with Jyoti, our Bitcoin-loving jungle neighbor (who also got me into working with AI and AI agents), who came to pick up a few coconuts. Since the conversation with him lasted so long, I didn't get to digging planting holes, but I was able to measure and verify that we did have enough remaining ethernet cable for me to run a new line from Braja's place to Elohi's hut, to get him online. After measuring the ethernet cable, I took a shower, made myself some food in Wabisabi, collected my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and with those in hands, I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just before 9PM, and after scanning my X feed for a good while, I finally went to bed by just after 11PM, though I wasn't able to fall asleep for a while, unfortunately. I woke up just before 8AM, having slept better than I expected, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee, and make breakfast, in Wabisabi, before returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1PM, so it's a great time to wrap this up, so that I may attend to my numerous other important Sunday 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 my weekly-goals-and-progress update as soon as I'm able to do it, and tomorrow's iteration of these posts tomorrow afternoon! 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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