I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1206 - More HIVE Sent Out in the Daily ALIVE Dividends, and Yet Lower Overall Payouts, Hrmmm... - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, November 15, 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 am happy to announce that the last round HIVE payouts in the Daily ALIVE dividends did go out successfully yesterday, and using the correct amount of HIVE this time, though as some of you may have noticed, the payouts for most people, me included, were a bit less than the previous successful rounds (not counting when the Hive nodes had their kiniption and made our payout script go berserk). This is so interesting to me, since I've allotted 5 more HIVE per week for the ALIVE-dividend payouts, 15 as opposed to 10 HIVE, and yet the payouts for most people definitely seem to have dropped by fair degree. Hrmmm...

While I'm still in the process of accertaining exactly why the payouts dropped so much, there are two possibilities that come to mind at the moment. One is that Bjorn might have had a larger amount of HIVE set to be sent out in the previous version of his payout script. I've already messaged him to see the quantity that he was using, though he hasn't responded yet, but as always, I'll let y'all know what I find.

The second possible reason for the drop in the HIVE payouts for most people might be that more people are holding and/or staking ALIVE, and in larger quantities. This is something that I've been expecting to happen over time, especially with HIVE being distributed in the daily ALIVE dividends, but if that is the reason, then it certainly happened more quickly and strongly than I had anticipated.

If all or part of the variance in HIVE payouts does turn out to be different amounts of HIVE being sent out, then I'll see if it's feasible to increase it again. I plan to increase it anyway as we go, but slowly over time, as I grow our weekly HIVE income. We also have less surplus HIVE this week due to all of it being drained by the errant payout script earlier in the week, so I'm still rebuilding it. If we are able to raise the amount of HIVE allocated to being sent out daily, then I'll certainly do it.

Regardless of the reason for the lower daily HIVE payouts, it hit home the fact that I really do need to focus even more on growing our weekly HIVE income, and our surplus HIVE buffer, so that we are able to more easily adjust the amount of HIVE that can be allocated to being sent out weekly and daily. Since we need a whole lot more investment liquidity for me to be able to boost our weekly HIVE income (without using more BEE, as we need a whole lot of that too for our present and future diesel/liquidity pools), I've been slowly adding liquidity into the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, that increases our daily SWAP.HIVE income, and into the SWAP.HIVE:BXT pool, which pays out BXT daily, that can then be staked to begin growing another daily source for HIVE. If anyone feels inspired to donate some SWAP.HIVE to the cause, I promise to use it, to the best of my ability, to augment our income in HIVE and SWAP.HIVE, which will increasingly benefit us all over time.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little before 1:45PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, which being the beautiful sunny day that it was, was an enjoyable process. After capturing a nice batch of shots, I sharpened my machete and used it to clear halfway down one side of the second driveway. I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, to rest for a short bit, after which I did another round of clearing, finishing the other half of that side of the driveway. Once that was finally completed, I took a shower, then I headed to the Landing to heat myself up some leftover food that I had in the fridge, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hand(s), I made my way back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks. I got everything done super early again (Hive and Blurt are way less active lately), by just after 8PM, and after some asset management, and considering the quickest ways that I could grow our HIVE income, I went to bed just after 11PM. I woke up around 5AM, a bit on the early side, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then 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 get to my other few Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, and my Alive Tribe asset management, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, straining and blending coconut kefir, and then on community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's incarnation 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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