I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #863 - Back into Trading I Go - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, December 7, 2024

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 5 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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Crypto trading is something that I got into several years ago, originally on Poloniex (until they removed US-based accounts), then on and off on Bitforex (which thankfully has never required KYC), and finally here on our own decentralized, internal market, Hive Engine. While I have learned a good deal in the process, and I've actually become pretty good at it, I don't generally actually enjoy trading, mostly because aside from a few limited periods of more rapid buys and sells, there are often long periods of waiting for assets to move back into a profitable range, which requires quite a lot of patience, sometimes for months.

When I have a large amount or assets to trade, such as the three times that I sent off-chain crypto assets to Hive Engine, I give it more attention and focus, because the returns are much higher, providing me with large amounts of liquidity that I can use to invest in various Hive assets, like Hive Power, HBD, or solid, high-performing income tokens, which speeds my growth. Outside of those few times when I have a large amount of assets to grow and allocate, I don't tend to do much trading.

As my daily income of high-value Hive assets grows, I have more liquidity that I can use in various ways, including trading. For the last several months, much of this surplus liquidity, in the form of SWAP.HIVE, has been going to various diesel/liquidity pools, and to buying more excellent income tokens, like DRIP, which give me ever-greater SWAP.HIVE liquidity.

With BTC continuing to reach new all-time highs in fiat-dollar value (past $103,000), and the whole crypto market going up with it, with a lot of volatility in the mix, I'm thinking that this is a good time for me to get back into trading on a regular basis again. I'm experimenting with using AI trading bots on Hive.Trading to trade between HIVE and HBD (starting with 5 HIVE and 1.006 HBD). The site is pretty bare-bones, with little explanation of how things actually work, and the bot that I chose works with daily moving averages, so it took two days for it to finally start trading. I'll give it a month to see what sorts of profits are possible. If profits are reasonable for the time and assets invested, then I'll expand my trading there over time.

The daily SWAP.HIVE payouts from my staked DRIP (on this account, and on my utility/trading account, @tydyn.rain) keeps growing, as I keep acquiring and staking more DRIP, so it's becoming feasible to allocate some of it to trading on Hive Engine. So that is what I will likely begin to do over the next few weeks. I still have to look over and decide on which Hive-Engine tokens I'll be trading, but I will probably choose BEE, SWAP.DOGE, SWAP.BTC, and SWAP.LTC to start. Let's see how much I am able to grow my assets over the rest of this month.

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, once I had finished up my Hive tasks, around 12:30PM, earlier than usual, putting my attention first on some photography for these posts, and straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao). With those done, I got my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted foliage for cow-milking food, cleaned the upper coco bar, and treated a longon tree to induce flowering and fruiting. After I finished those tasks, I took a shower, and returned to the Flow House for a short rest, then I walked over to Lea's to assist her in what I thought was some phone assistance. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding on my part, it was actually a day that we were going to be doing more pruning and clearing work on her land. Since I didn't think that we were doing land work, I didn't bring my machete, hand saw, or comma, so we took a quite drive back to GaiaYoga to pick up my tools. While we were there I showed her my Mysore blackberry patch, as I told her I'd give her a start of it soon. She loved muching on the berries. Once we got back to Lea's place, we got to work almost immediately. As always, we got a lot done, and by the end of it we were both exhausted. After a shower, I ended up being invited to dinner, with Lea making a delicious and visually beautiful meal of ground beef, shreaded purple sweet cabbage, sea salt, and cheese, with a salad. We ate and talked at her outdoor seating area, and just around sunset I walked back to GaiaYoga, after my good-byes and a sweet hug with Lea. One cool thing to mention (at least to me) is that I didn't put on a stitch of clothing on my walk over to Lea's, while I was at her place, on the car ride back to GYG to get my tools, or on the walk back to GaiaYoga. I love that. As soon as I got back to GYG, I went straight to the Landing to drop off my tools, to collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the fridge, and finally to return to the Flow House to get into my evening round of Hive tasks, and to catch up on my notifications. I got a bit of a late start, and I also paused the process for a short while to talk with Bryan when he came up for a visit to the Flow House, so getting through all my notifications took me longer than I had intended, finally finishing just after 12AM. After a quick round of token management, I went straight to bed just after 12:15AM. Unfortunately I did not sleep well (for the first time in 7 days), waking up around 4AM, and unable to sleep due to thinking about the cow-milking situation, doing round of token management, and then making another partially-successful attempt at sleep. I woke up just before 8:30AM, still feeling like I needed more sleep, doing another round of token management, before getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee, and to milk the cow with Jo. Once milking was done, I made my way back to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just before 1:45PM, so a very good time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to first focus on some photography for these posts, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update tomorrow morning, and the next version of this post tomorrow afternoon! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart, reignite my heart sun, and embody a solid, healthy masculine, allowing my electric fire to shine bright, no matter what others, especially women, say or do. 

2.) Bring myself and my life back into balance, integration, and wholeness. 

3.) Do regular (naked) integral practices again, alone or with others. 

4.) Dance regularly again.

5.) Work with natural entheogens (mushrooms, ganja, ayahuasca), with punctuated regularity, as a part of my healing process again. 

 6.) Get, and keep, regular deep, integral energy-body-tantric work healing sessions for women flowing again.

7.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again. 

8.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again.

9.) Live as an integral part of a juicy heart-resonant soul tribe community, with deep, coherent mutual and shared passion, purpose, mission, love, warmth, care, sweetness, reverence, respect, aliveness, admiration, excitement, enjoyment, playfulness, work, fun, laughter, attraction, and all-level connections and relationships. 

10.) Make love with the woman, or the women, that I love, every day, as a sacred devotional practice. 

11.) 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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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.