I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1176 - 14,100 HP Surpassed, Watching HiveFest on Livestream, and Hive-Engine Nodes Down Yet Again - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, October 16, 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 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙
Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Well, I just blew past the milestone of 14,100 Hive Power this morning, which is right on schedule to when I was expecting it. So now I've 'only' got around 887.5 HP to go to achieve my year-end goal of 15,000 Hive Power, which is still formidable, but at the present rate of growth, quite doable indeed. I'll hopefully reach that goal within 9 weeks time.
Yesterday and today I've been watching the replay of the first day of HiveFest 10 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (it's over 7 hours long, so it's taking some time to get through), which I'm finding to be a fascinating endeavor, both because I very much appreciate seeing and hearing the real humans behind the Hive name, and because of all the information on the present and future developments in the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem. It's also nifty seeing Hivers that I know in the audience.
I honestly don't know whether I'll ever attend a HiveFest in person, since I'm not crazy about long air-travel trips, I no longer have a valid passport, and also due to the fact that I rarely don clothes and leave the jungle (I haven't left the Island since arriving over 7 years ago), though the idea does intrigue me quite a bit. There are several very exciting developments in the works that could have a huge impact on Hive, Hive's greater adoption, and Hive's place in the larger crypto world. Hive has a lot of notable challenges at the moment, but even with those, Hive's future looks very bright.
As many of you have likely already noticed, most or all Hive-Engine nodes are down again, due to another round of DDOS attacks. The most reliable node, and the one which works for me more consistently than all the others is herpc.actifit.io, though even that one is struggling hard at the moment. At least I was able to get my morning asset management done before Hive Engine went down for the count.
With the state of the Hive-Engine nodes presently, I'm not very hopeful about the success of the ALIVE-dividend payouts today, so I apologize for that. I really wish that there were more that we could do on our end. We'll just keep doing our best, and moving forward, come what may.
Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, quite early, by around 12:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and collecting more coconut water and coconut meat from several younger coconuts to begin another round of kefir fermentation. I also went to sunbathe on the trampoline in the Peanut Lawn for a short while, while the sun was out. After the sun disappeared behind clouds again, I took a quick asset-management break up the Flow House, after which I harvested a rack of bananas that was ready, and then when it started raining, I cut and capped a new, and quite long ethernet cable in the Landing for Avi to use in the Bedouin. Once I had that done, I made myself some food in the Landing (a fried-cheese sandwich with pepperjack cheese, and horseradish mustard), and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand(s), I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive and Blurt tasks, and to catch up on my Hive notifications. I paused that for a while because Seej surprised me by coming up to the Flow House for a visit, so I ended up talking and sharing photos with her for quite some time, until she fell asleep on my bed, and I got back to Hive. Even with the intermission, I was still able to get everything done on Hive and Blurt by around 10:30PM, and after some asset management, I went to bed around 11PM, after saying good night and good bye to Seej, as she was leaving GaiaYoga again the next morning. I woke up about 6AM, having slept reasonably well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee the Landing (I'm making it for myself and three other people at the moment), then returning to the Flow House to watch more of the HiveFest replay, and to write this post. It's now just before 12:45PM, so it's a wonderful time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my other few important Hive ana Blurt tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on some photography for my posts (I'm just really hoping that the sun comes out), straining and blending coconut kefir, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's version of these posts! 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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!HBIT
I'm thinking that since I sometimes already have quite a hard time looking for your replies that are less than 72 hours old under my own comments (or posts) to tip WINEX, I think that I should distribute my (3) WINEX token tips to other people on Hive so that I could avoid using token tipping commands on comments sections where they are not allowed. 🤯 That's only sometimes though (a few days a week). 😎
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OK, sounds good, and definitely do what works for you. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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That comment also went beyond 3 days old, so I can no longer tip it WINEX. 🤯
Whenever I don't find any reply from you that is less than 72 hours old under my comments on #HiveEngage, I check for your replies on @savvytester's comments (also on Hive Engage) to reply (meaningful) comments there with the WINEX token tipping command. 😅
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OK, and thank you, I appreciate it. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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@savvytester also sometimes accesses my #HiveEngage feed so that they can successfully use the one !WINEX token tip they have available. 😆😅
!WEIRD
!HBIT
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@savvyplayer wasn't able to notice that your HBIT command there did not work, even if the HBIT token mining bot appears to be working in general. 🤔🤯 I recommend that you use the command again after a few hours (though you might forget about it later in the day, so it's okay if you try to use the command again as soon as you see this comment). 🤗😏
!HOPE !WEIRD !INDEED !WINEX
Ah, interesting, and it's likely due to most or all of the Hive-Engine nodes being down today. It's all good. I'll use it once per day, and if it works, great, if not, oh well. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!ALIVE
!BBH
!HOPE
!INDEED
!WEIRD
If the #HiveEngine network which is the largest second-layer network here on Hive becomes down for quite a length of time, then that means smaller second-layer networks (especially #Honeycomb) are (much) more likely to continue to encounter such problems. 🤔🤯🤯🤯
I don't see the connection, why would Hive Engine being down affect the length of time that Honeycomb and other layer-2 frameworks are down? 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!HUG
!WEIRD
What I meant on my previous comment is that since #HiveEngine as the largest second-layer network on Hive encounters problem quite often and for quite some time, then other networks also built on top of Hive that have fewer node operators and lower total token worth in terms of HIVE are more vulnerable to those problems !INDEED. 🤔🤯🤯🤓
!HOPE !WEIRD !PIZZA !WINEX
Ah, OK, I see what you mean. Hive is in a rather precarious state at the moment. Hive Engine is being systematically attacked in a highly-coordinated and efficient way, which is very concerning. They're trying to destroy it. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!ALIVE
!BBH
!HOPE
!INDEED
!PIZZA
!WEIRD
!HOPE that the first-layer Hive Witness node operators are already helping with mitigating the attack on the #HiveEngine network! 🧘♂️🤗
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!BBH
Galaxies of thanks, Bradley! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!ALIVE
!BBH
Big congrats on your HP achievement, is not easy on the chain. It shows consistency and determination
Thank you very much, my friend, I appreciate it. Hive definitely has it's challenges, but I've learned and refined how I do things here over time, and I've been doing pretty well indeed. That is definitely true, and I have those in abundance. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!ALIVE
I couldn't watch the HIVEFEST live telecast due to lack of time. It would be better if we get the short short videos on different presentation.
H-E is really having tough time. We hope that they can fix it permanently!
You will reach your year-end goal of 15,000 pretty easily I am sure. At ease, Tydyn!
!BBH
I understand, as the videos are very long, 7 and 8 hours. I'm having to watch them a little bit at a time. Yes, I'd prefer that too, one presentation per video.
Oh lordy is it. All Hive Engine nodes have been down most of the day. I can't do much of anything, and that's not even mentioning another round of failed ALIVE dividends. I'm right there with you, my friend, I really hope that the devs can find a way to defend against attacks, and regain node stability, once and for all.
Thanks a lot, brother, I appreciate that, and I may indeed succeed. Haha...I'm working on it! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!ALIVE
!BBH
Congrats passing your HP milestone bro, guess we will see how things work out with all these attacks. 😎
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!ALIVE
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Thanks a lot, @benthomaswwd, I appreciate it, brother. Indeed, it's make or break, do or die, so to speak, and I'm very much hoping that Hive comes out stronger and better than it was before. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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