I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1243 - An Effective Strategy with the DAB-DBOND-RUG Trio - Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, December 22, 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! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Hive Debt: 19.33%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.094 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 1.002 USD

ALIVE Price in SWAP.HIVE: 0.03829496 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00147028 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.226316 USD

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 87,731.1 USD

LTC/Litecoin: 77.35 USD 

Gold: 4,492.00 USD 

Silver: 71.29 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #151 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#114 (among active witnesses only)/215.6K HP in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I'm liking the DAB-DBOND-RUG trio the longer that I work with it, so much so that it is also now my primary focus as I create and grow other daily and weekly sources of HIVE for the We Are Alive Tribe, to complement the weekly HIVE payouts that we receive from our delegation of 20,000+ BEE to @bee.voter, as well as to create redundancy for them, so that we are not almost-entirely dependent on one project to fund our operations. I've gained quite a lot of experience with DAB-DBOND-RUG since acquiring a good amount of all of them just under a month ago, and I've gained some good clarity on the most cost-effective and efficient strategy for growing these very useful assets, and it's one that I'm presently implementing for the We Are Alive Tribe (with some of my own funds), because the ever-increasing benefits over time will be very notable indeed.

As I've mentioned previously, the DAB-DBOND-RUG trio work in an auto-compounding synergy with each other, which is one of my favorite aspects about it, along with the resulting ever-increasing daily HIVE income. So staking DBOND produces liquid DAB, which can be staked to produce more DBOND, or left liquid to receive daily HIVE payouts. RUG is a way to continue producing DBOND even if all or most DAB is staked. In terms of market prices, from least to most costly, the order is RUG, DBOND, DAB, so basically the more direct the source for HIVE is, the most expensive it is.

Given the synergistic dynamic between these tokens, and their market prices, the biggest bang for the buck comes from buying RUG off the market (that's the only way that I presently know how to acquire them), as that will then begin producing staked DBOND, which will then start producing liquid DAB. The only drawback to this method is that it takes time for the first cup, RUG, to overflow into the second cup, DBOND, and then to finally overflow into the third cup, liquid DAB.

Most of the 33 SWAP.HIVE that I've contributed/donated so far to building and growing the 'We Are Alive Tribe' financial infrastructure has gone to buying RUG off the market, as well as to increasing our liquidity in the SWAP.HIVE:PWR pool, the result of which will be increasing HIVE and SWAP.HIVE incomes over time. The weekly HIVE income on my own account from the DAB-DBOND-RUG trio, via liquid DAB, has already surpassed my weekly income from my staked ALIVE and DUO, while for monthly HIVE income, DAB is just behind both of those, though it likely won't be for long.

The daily income that we receive for the 4.555 liquid DAB presently on @aliveandthriving is 0.004 HIVE, and although this is very small now, it will continue to grow over time, as we accumulate more liquid DAB (it's already increased by 0.001 HIVE since first beginning). We've currently got a little over 25 staked DBOND, and a little over 100 RUG (with me continuing to buy more every day), so in time we'll have a very nice flow to our HIVE river.

Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by a little after 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. Once I had that completed to my satisfaction, I went to chop and dump bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and to tidy the area a bit. With that done, I strained and blended coconut kefir in the Landing, after which I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House. After my break, I got my machete and I went banana hunting around the property, in search of harvestable bananas (none were found). Upon finishing with my banana hunt, I made myself some food (spiced-and-seasoned mini beef patties, as I was feeling very hungry) in the Landing, and after nibbling on that, I collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and I headed back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I paused that to walk to Tutu's to meet and pay Melekai, who had picked me up some supplies in town, and with some important replenished food supplies, I returned to the Landing to make myself two mini burgers, on olive-oil-toasted sourdough, with pepperjack cheese, and Dijon mustard, which I brought back with me to the Flow House to enjoy, as I got back to Hive. Although it seems to be a rare occurrence now, I wasn't able to get through all my notifications before I had to stop a bit after 11:15PM, to do some asset management, and then to go to bed by about 11:45PM. I woke up by around 5:45AM, 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 1:30PM, so it's a marvelous time to wrap this up, so that I may get 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 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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