I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1123 - A Glorious Fiat-to-Crypto Investment Surprise! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, August 24, 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 6 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Although I was expecting my crypto-loving jungle neighbor to send me the LTC from my $600 worth of swapped fiat cash this coming Saturday, much to my excited surprise, he was able to send it yesterday afternoon. He sent 5.06779 LTC, and after the transaction fee, I received 5.02975646 SWAP.LTC in my wallet. I swapped half of that for SWAP.HIVE, which gave me 1,405.31519085 SWAP.HIVE/2.50774362 SWAP.LTC, which I added to the SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.LTC diesel/liquidity pool (on @tydyn.rain), to earn pool fees until near the end of the year. My assets comprise 0.902% of the total pool liquidity, so almost 1%. I'm grateful to have been able to get it in the pool so much sooner then expected, especially considering how good the earned fees for that pool are.

Since this pool is the 6th highest pool for fees earned, adding such a good chunk of liquidity to it was sure to generate some great returns, and even before reaching the 24-hour mark since adding my assets to the pool, I'm already quite impressed by what I've earned so far. I had it all in the pool by just after 3:30PM yesterday, it's just after 8:30AM now, and as of this moment I've earned 0.13235316 SWAP.HIVE/0.00013362 SWAP.LTC so far. When I reach the 24-hour mark, I'll do some calculations, to extrapolate potential growth over the next 3 months.

While this fiat-to-crypto investment is going to be allocated to my next mega-powerup near the end of the year, just from my short time in this pool, I can clearly see that it, and other off-chain-leveraging pools like it, are indeed fantastic long-term investments. In hopefully 3 months time, and every 3 months after that, I'll be making another $600 investment into Hive, to add to multiple high-earning, off-chain-leveraging pools, one by one. That's the goal, now to see how closely I can stay to the plan.

At the present prices, even if I converted my assets in that pool into HIVE now, I'd have about 2,767.342 HIVE, which is not bad at all, though after earning fees for 3 months, I should end up with a fair bit more. I'm very much hoping that I can get to 3,000 HIVE total for my powerup, but we shall see!

I knew that diesel/liquidity pools, especially certain ones, would be an excellent way to leverage and grow my assets, and that is more obvious now than ever. I now have somewhere over $1,000 in assets in 100+ pools, and I can say that I'm just getting started!

Yesterday, Sunday, I left the Flow House, after finishing up my Hive tasks, a little after 2PM, giving my attention first to some photography for my posts, and straining and blending kefir. When I had that done, I helped Avi to clear a small area right in front of the Bedouin, to plant a lovely and medicinal ground-cover plant, that should do very well there. When we were done with that, I went to help Braja with a few small tasks at her place. Since I have time constraints this morning, I returned to the Flow House early yesterday, to write and publish My 169th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: So Much Investment News to Share! last night instead of this morning, before starting on my notifications. Thankfully, even with writing that post, I still got everything done by 10PM, after which I did some asset management, I scanned my X feed, and then I went to bed a bit after 11:30PM. I woke up way too early, somewhere around 4AM, and unable to sleep more, I finally just got up by 5:30AM, definitely still feeling that I needed more sleep, 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 9:45AM, so a fantastic time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my other few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, and then community/land work. I also have a meeting today to which I'm not at all looking forward, but I'll just do the best that I can with it. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until tomorrow's expression 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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