I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1474 - My DBOND Income Has Definitely Jumped, and My HP Is Growing Quite Quickly! - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, August 1, 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: 27.20%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0422 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.966 USD

ALIVE SWAP.HIVE Price: 0.00964641 SWAP.HIVE 

HEARTBEAT ALIVE Price: 0.18092497 ALIVE

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00071680 USD

QORT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.218559 USD

VOI Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.0001234 USD

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Gold Fiat-Dollar Price: 4,042.32 USD 

Silver Fiat-Dollar Price: 57.60 USD 

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #123 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/#97 (among active witnesses only)/830.9k HP in votes/41 votes in total

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I didn't know exactly when I'd begin to see an increased DBOND income after massively boosting my HP delegation to @dab-vote, as the payouts are rather irregular, but I'm happy to say that I received a very nice surprise yesterday evening, when I found 8.04730447 liquid DBOND, each of which is backed 1:1 with HIVE/SWAP.HIVE, sitting in my wallet. That's a huge leap over my previous DBOND income, which makes sense since I increased the delegation from 610 HP to 10,610 HP delegated.

With DBOND payouts like that, my staked DBOND will grow quite quickly, and with it, my DAB income. That increased DAB income is for what I'm waiting, as it's what will allow me to begin regularly loaning some DAB each week to @aliveandthriving and @aliveandsocial, to speed up the growth of our HIVE income.

On my own account at least I'm considering starting to keep 50% of my DAB staked, to grow my DBOND more quickly, and the other half liquid, to continue to receive daily HIVE payouts. Since the HP on my account is growing so quickly now, the HIVE payouts from my staked DAB are not as necessary, and given that every DBOND is backed 1:1 with HIVE, and DAB is not, this also makes good financial sense. I would like to do this on @aliveandthriving and @aliveandsocial as well, but for now our HIVE income has the highest priority.

Speaking of my Hive Power growing quickly, seriously, it's going quite a bit more quickly than it was before my giant powerup, that's for sure! I've already exceeded 34,730 HP, which is a jump of around 28 HP since yesterday afternoon. I remember the time when I was gaining that much in a week!

Keeping 50% of my DAB staked is a way to leverage my assets a bit more effectively and efficiently, since DBOND is backed 1:1 with HIVE/SWAP.HIVE, so I'm using an asset that is not fully-backed by HIVE/SWAP.HIVE, DAB, to increase my holdings of an asset that is. My daily HIVE income will drop a bit, true, but the long-term benefits make it worth it I'd say.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just before 2:30PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts. It was another lovely sunny day, so I was able to get a goodly number of beautiful shots. My two main tasks of the day were chopping and dumping bad/used coconuts at the upper coco bar, and helping Michael to unload Ano's truck after the last Sunday market. I had intended to get into the yacón beds to begin weeding, but Michael needed my help more, so I'll save weeding for Monday. After helping Michael, I went to Wabisabi to make Avi (who's paying me to do so) some food, to make myself some food, and to collect my leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, before heading back to the Flow House to begin my evening Hive tasks. I got through all of my notifications by just before 8:30PM, and after scanning my X feed for a while, I went to bed by just before 11PM. I woke up fairly late, just after 8AM, having slept well, going to prepare my superfood fire coffee in Wabisabi, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:30PM, so it's a splendid 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 task. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's manifestation 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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