I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1485 - 35k HP Surpassed, and The New Self-Hosted 'We Are Alive Tribe' Frontend Is Alive! - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Wednesday, August 12, 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: 28.31%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0392 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.981 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.0098355 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.1702443 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00070500 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.206136 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001146 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 63,331.40 USD

BCH/Bitcoin Cash Fiat-Dollar Price: 206.06 USD

LTC/Litecoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 44.725 USD 

Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,349.79 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 64.43 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #123 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#97 (among active witnesses only)/834.6k HP in votes/41 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Yesterday afternoon I crossed the significant milestone of 35,000 Hive Power. With my current HP, I now 'only' have somewhere around 27,200 HP to go to reach Orca Level. While that seems like a lot, I think that it will actually go quite quickly. I'm shooting for 40,000 HP before the end of the year, and a year and a half to attain Orca Level.

Since I began on Hive almost 5 years ago, my HP growth has had the pattern of long periods of strong, steady growth, punctuated by periodic large leaps. I just completed another big jump, my largest yet, and now I'm in for another round of long, steady growth. I have no clue yet from where my next large leap will come, but I know that a way will present itself for it to happen.

Even under the increasingly-difficult economic and financial conditions within the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem over the last few years, I've still done fairly well for myself on my account. I'm still working on building that kind of well-leveraged financial resilience for the We Are Alive Tribe as well, which is a slow-and-steady, continually-ongoing process.

On the 'We Are Alive Tribe' front, I'm happy to announce that our new, self-hosted iteration of the community frontend, WeAreAliveTribe.com, is now live, and very much alive! As with Bradley's BBH Project frontend, our community frontend is now also being self-hosted by Bjorn (@borniet), which is far preferable. Go take a look around, test things out, and let us know what you think. There are a few small issues to address, but overall our newly-implemented community frontend is looking and working great.

We also now have our own 'We Are Alive Tribe' version of short-form content, Pings, that will be published to container posts on our newly-created @alivepings account, in the same manner that Waves, Snaps, among others, are published. Although the price of HIVE is going into the dirt, with Hive really not in a good place, we continue building and growing the We Are Alive Tribe, its infrastructure, and its assets, regardless.

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by around 1:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and then to helping Ano unload mixed-wood mulch from his truck. Once we completed that, I took a shower, I took a quick break up at the Flow House, then I got my machete and I did another round of clearing in the front orchard. With that finally completed for the day, I took another 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 scan my X feed a bit more, and to begin my evening Hive tasks. I had a lot of notifications last night, so I wasn't able to get through them all before I had to stop just before 11PM, to scan my X feed one more time, and then to go to bed by just after 11:45PM. I woke up a bit late, by just after 8AM, still feeling that I needed a little more sleep, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:15PM, so it's a fantastic 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. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's iteration 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

Come join us in the We Are Alive Tribe on Hive and on Blurt!

Image created by @benthomaswwd

You're invited to provide liquidity in our four ALIVE diesel/liquidity pools, all of which offer daily liquidity rewards:

• ALIVE:SWAP.HIVE

• ALIVE:ALIVEM

• ALIVE:HEARTBEAT

• ALIVE:LBI

There will be more ALIVE pools coming soon!

Vote for our @aliveandmmb Witness Node!

This is our collaboratively shared Witness node between the We Are Alive Tribe, and @borniet's and my MMB (Maximum Mutual Benefit) Project, here to build something good for all of us! The higher in the witness ranking we go, the more that we'll be able to grow the We Are Alive Tribe, and the more that we'll be able to share with all of you!

If you appreciate what we're doing with the We Are Alive Tribe, and feel inspired and motivated to lend a hand in building and growing our decentralized community economy and financial framework, which benefits all of us, community conntributions/donations/investments may be sent to our 'We Are Alive Tribe Sovereign Wealth Investment Fund' account, @waat-swif. They're deeply appreciated, and are put to very good use.

Vote for @borniet's @botlord Witness Node!

Bjorn is our badass coder who hosts and manages our (and also Bradley's) community backends, he creates all sorts of useful tools, and he assists people all over the Blockchain constantly. He redefines the term 'busy'!

Vote for @bradleyarrow's Witness Node!

Bradley's tenaciously committed and all-in on Hive for the long haul (just like me!), and the higher his witness goes in the ranking, the higher the weekly BBH and BBHO dividend payouts will be!

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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.