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: 17.60%
HIVE Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.103 USD
HBD/HIVE-Backed Dollar Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.977 USD
ALIVE Price in SWAP.HIVE: 0.02514567 SWAP.HIVE
BLURT Fiat-Dollar Price: 0.00130526 USD
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LTC/Litecoin: 81.51 USD
Gold: 4,300.00 USD
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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
I love and believe in Hive, but man are things rough lately. Sentiment both on and about the Blockchain are at all-time lows, along with the fiat-dollar price of HIVE, while the Hive Debt is close to its all-time high, and a seemingly constant stream of abandoned and failed project and layer-2 tokens. I'm sad to say that our Blockchain Ecosystem has eroded quite a lot over the last few years, which is heartbreaking to me. I've most certainly not given up on Hive, but it's obvious to anyone paying even the slightest attention that it has some critical issues, that are not only crippling its growth, but also causing its continued decline. Hive and its resources, people included, are not being managed with care, or well, I'd say.
My tenacious commitment and dedication to Hive and to the We Are Alive Tribe are unwavering, even as it seems to me that so many aspects of our Blockchain Ecosystem are falling apart. I do believe that we can surmount these notable challenges, though from my perspective, certain important things definitely need to change.
I've got to say the it sure isn't easy to create and build consistent and stable synergistic passive-income systems that function as intended over the long term when so many important components fail or just stop working entirely. I don't give up, however, but rather I just adapt, improvise, overcome, and keep on flowing, the best that I'm able, based on the situations that present themselves. Some functionality can't be replicated, unfortunately, which can make my endeavors quite difficult indeed at times.
I've narrowed my focus quite a lot lately regarding layer-2 investments, for me, and for the We Are Alive Tribe, strongly prioritizing assets backed by known sold, trustworthy, consistent, and reliable people and projects. I'll very likely be reallocating some assets presently in various diesel/liquidity, because of this. It's so essential to know the people that run the projects and tokens in which we become involved, and in which we invest. That's a big reason that I'm as open, transparent, and communicative in these daily posts about what I'm doing, and what I intend to do, with and for the We Are Alive Tribe, as possible. Being consistent and dependable makes it possible for others to be able to do the same, as they build their own income systems, and for solid trust to grow.
Until recently, my goal was to someday be able to live of of what I've generated and built here on Hive, and while I would still very much love that, so much of my focus is now going into working for the growth and success of the We Are Alive Tribe. Honesty, I'm praying that our Blockchain Ecosystem is able to make it through these exceedingly challenging times, and to move forward in a good direction for all of us. I don't know how not to leverage and grow assets, so I shall continue to do so, as I work to help make the We Are Alive Tribe as strong and resilient as I possibly can, one day, and one step, at a time.
Yesterday, Friday, I left the Flow House, after finshing up my Hive-Blurt-'We Are Alive Tribe' tasks, by just before 1:45PM, giving my attention to some photography for my posts first, and after getting a nice batch of shots, and completing a couple small chores, I got my machete and I did another two good rounds of clearing at various spots on the property, with a quick asset-management break in between. Once I finally finished that for the day, I took a shower, heated myself up some leftover food that I had in the Landing 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 about 8:30PM, at which point I felt inspired to go make myself a grilled cheese in the Landing. I nibbled on my snack as I did my last round of asset management, before going to bed at 11PM. I woke up around 7:15AM, 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 after 12:15PM, so it's an excellent 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 iteration 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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It's good to look at the actual numbers when we're evaluating things. I'm happy to see you post numbers in all your posts. I am watching them but I don't think they look all that bad. Not great, to be sure. But not quite terrible yet.
Projects and Tokens
Hope you don't mind if I discuss this a little bit, and give my personal thoughts. I would agree that it is better to know the people that run projects and tokens. We could then examine their track record over time. But on the other hand, HIVE has no KYC and anyone can create an account, or a hundred accounts, with no one knowing for sure who is the person behind the accounts. I kind of like it being this way. So it is a trade-off. We can evaluate things better with more info, but people have reasons for only giving what personally identifying info they choose to give the rest of us.
I have bought tokens from token creators who I definitely know who they are, and from some that I am very sure that I know them but not positive, and from some who I have no idea who they are. Since I collect tokens Just For FUN, I don't spend a ton of time analyzing future profitability, either by looking at the numbers or sleuthing to figure out the token creator. Too much work for something I do Just For FUN. But certainly others can choose their preferences for analyzing the tokens they collect and their creators. I respect everyone's choices! :)
Anyway, back to HIVE.
One thing I think about is that the HIVE system is self-correcting in a way. If a lot of people leave, or just stop posting, the same reward pool is given every day and it is divided among less people in that case. So higher rewards for those who stick it out. And then maybe whoever new finds us will see those higher rewards and give it a shot.
#VSC is coming along, and it may produce a better token system than hive-engine. We'll see, but it is something to be optimistic about. #HoloZing game is making a bit of progress again, and #Splinterlands still has a decent player base. And you and your partners are doing a great job with #Alive! :)
The situation is still dynamic, and certainly not hopeless. Let's get through the holidays and push forward in 2026 and beyond!
!ALIVE !BBH !UNI !PIZZA !LADY
I agree, and I'm really happy to hear that you appreciate those numbers that I share. You're actually the first one to mention them. Yes, that's true, they're not at critical levels yet, and I hope that they don't get there.
I don't mind at all, in fact I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and experiences. Yes, I appreciate the no-KYC potentially-anonymous aspect of Hive as well. People can have however many accounts they'd like, but their trustworthiness comes from the daily interactions, connections, and relationships shared and grown over time, regardless of which account they're using. I've always been very open about myself, probably far more than I should, and people who know me here understand that my intentions are pure, and that I'm working for the betterment of everyone around me, and Hive as a whole. I want to work and co-create with others who are equally sincere in their desire to build something beautiful for all of us.
I appreciate your perspective on layer-2 tokens, Kenny, and I'm somewhere in the middle, because doing what I do with investing, leveraging, and growing assets is very fun for me, but I've learned to only invest large sums in the assets of people that I've come to trust over time. I was never into money, finance, investing, or anything like that until I came to Hive. Now I don't know how not to leverage and grow assets, and to build multi-stream income systems.
Yes, I do believe that to be true, and I'm not going anywhere. I've loved and believed in this blockchain for too many years, and I've invested huge amounts of time, energy, and even good amounts of fiat and crypto assets, to give up. I'm all-in for the long haul, come what may. I've definitely noticed the increased rewards on posts, and that is indeed a big benefit to staying consistent, which I have done, for the vast majority of my time on Hive. I've never really paid attention to the fiat-dollar price of HIVE until I learned about the Hive Debt, now I eye it uneasily...lol! I've always said that the best time to grow is when the blockchain is least active.
Indeed, I do my best to keep track of as much development on Hive as I can, and there are some quite exciting things in the works, including VSC/Magi. I'm very much looking forward to it as a compliment to Hive Engine, and not it's replacement. If Hive Engine goes, then all layer-2 tokens, and many communities would follow. That would kill most of what's left on Hive. I know it certainly would for me. I really appreciate you mentioning the positive developments, my friend, and I'm very grateful that things are going so well with the We Are Alive Tribe. I just try to stay ahead of the game, so that I have an idea of how to allocate my energy and resources to making this community as strong and resilient as I possibly can.
I very much agree, and that's my plan indeed, let's go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
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STOPThat's seriously incredible! Thanks a lot, @hivebuzz team! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
That's great @tydynrain! We're excited to see your accomplishments on Hive! Keep going!
Hang in there! There are a lot of positive developments as well. Also, having a bear feeding on the Hive honey pot for so long keeps prices ultra cheap for the believers to take advantage whenever they can!
Love the vibrant greens in your top photos.
!ALIVE
!BBH
Thanks a lot, David, and I am! I'm not going anywhere, and you're right about that, and on both counts. I'm curious, what are your plans for HBD in Savings, since the Hive Debt is getting so high? I know that's one of your primary investment goals. I'm grateful that you appreciate my photos, my friend, excellent. 😁🙏💚✨🤙
!ALIVE
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I'm keeping a close eye on the HBD Stats. All the time it's under 18% and interest is at 15% I shall maintain my current position, though with a bit more flexibility. Now might be a good time to buy Hive with HBD interest earnings, for example. However, I want to spend a bit of time over the holidays to set my approach for 2026 - assuming there will be time!
!ALIVE
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Thank you for sharing these status. This gives me a kickstarter to invest and savings