I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1232 - Current HIVE Passive-Income Tokens, and My Impression So Far about the DAB-DBOND-RUG Trio - Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Thursday, December 11, 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: 17.47%

HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.101 USD

HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.977 USD

ALIVE Price in SWAP.HIVE:  0.02273761 SWAP.HIVE 

BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00139 USD 

BTC/Bitcoin Fiat-Dollar Price: 90,097.90 USD

LTC/Litecoin: 81.375 USD

Gold: 4,302.00 USD 

Silver: 61.95 USD  

Ranking for Our @aliveandmmb Witness Node: #152 (among all witnesses, including inactive)/ #114 (among active witnesses only)/211.6K in votes

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

While even a short time ago there used to be a plethora of layer-2 tokens that offered daily or weekly HIVE payouts for holding or staking, our options today are far fewer. It would seem that the only ones left are tokens that are run and managed by consistent, dependable, and solidly trustworthy people and their projects. The present very challenging conditions on Hive have seemingly separated the wheat from the chaff, with only the most committed and dedicated people and projects remaining.

Presently the list of active, functioning, and consistent HIVE passive-income tokens of which I'm aware includes our own ALIVE token (which I am constantly working to make even better), ATF, EDSI, DAB (as part of the DAB-DBOND-RUG Trio), DUO, SPI, and PIMP, with BRO, BXT, INCOME, LGN, and SIM now gone, or in the case of BXT, now just not at all reliable. Losing BXT as a source of excellent daily HIVE payouts hit pretty hard, as I was quite invested, but I adapted and rolled with it by liquidating my BXT and reallocating the resulting SWAP.HIVE to the DAB-DBOND-RUG trio. This strategy, although it will take time to replicate BXT's daily HIVE payouts (when it worked), has the notable benefit that with the help of RUG, my DAB and DBOND holding and stake, and the resulting daily HIVE payouts, will continue to grow over time through the magic of auto-compounding.

That's a big reason that I chose the DAB-DBOND-RUG trio as a replacement for BXT, along with the fact that it is also very cost effective in terms of the long-term HIVE returns, both on my own account, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, because DAB, DBOND, and the daily HIVE payouts, will all just automatically keep growing as time progresses, without me having to do anything, which I very much appreciate.

Using my own account as a measuring stick, my present holding of 67.052 EDSI, provides me 0.176 HIVE per week, and 1.025 HIVE per month, with my stake of 213.2014 DUO giving me 0.478 HIVE weekly, and 1.707 HIVE monthly, and my present 73.402 DAB giving me 0.425 HIVE per week, and 0.956 HIVE per month (it will end up being higher, since my DAB holding increases daily, which it actually just did again). As you can see, DAB is not far behind EDSI and DUO, and given that my DAB holding is now growing by close to 1 DAB per day, which adds another 0.001 HIVE to my payout, from my presently 719.70771203 staked DBOND and my current 184.829 RUG, it will probably catch up and exceed the HIVE payouts from EDSI and DUO quite soon indeed. By comparison, my present stake of 39,939.6424 ALIVE gives me 0.394 HIVE weekly, and 2.034 HIVE monthly, though obviously we can't fund our own daily and weekly 'We Are Alive Tribe' HIVE payouts with payouts from our own token.

This cost-effective auto-compounding of the DAB-DBOND-RUG trio is what I've already solidly bootstapped on my own account, and what I'm now endeavoring to do as well on @aliveandthriving for the We Are Alive Tribe, and while it's certainly going more slowly than I'd like, the auto-compounding has indeed begun. I keep contributing/donating 1 SWAP.HIVE every day (23 SWAP.HIVE so far) of my own funds to building and growing our financial infrastructure, with most of it presently going to buying more RUG, to speed up the growth of our staked DBOND, which then brings in more liquid DAB. Although getting this functioning at a level where it would be actually useful will take a little time, it is already beginning to bear some small, lovely fruit!

Yesterday, Thursday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive-Blurt-We Are Alive Tribe tasks, by a little after 1:30PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first. Once I had that done to my satisfaction, I went on a banana-hunting quest around the property with my machete, finding two harvestable racks in the process. With that completed, I took a quick asset-management break up at the Flow House, after which I got my machete once again to do more clearing work along the path that goes out to our second cow stantion, and the 400 acres. I did this in two rounds, with another very short break in between. I also ended up helping Ano move several large panels of metile (metal tile) a short distance to a nearby stack of them, after me having extricated them from under a huge mass of weeds a few days before. After finishing that, I did a food-supply run for the Landing down to Tutu's, I fixed the freezer door to the Landing refrigerator (after it curiously fell off), and finally I heated up some leftover food that I had in the fridge, and with that and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee in hands, I headed back to the Flow House, to begin my evening Hive-Blurt-We Are Alive Tribe tasks. I got everything done by a little before 9PM, and after some asset management, and watching another excellent video about open-source, privacy-and-security-focused de-Googled Android phones and OSes on Qortal (Qtube), I went to bed by just before 11PM. I woke up quite late, close to 7:30AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, returning to the Flow House to watch another super-helpful video on Qortal about the same non-spying phones, then starting to write this post. It's now just before 2PM, so it's a really good 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 manifestation 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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