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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

The Hive Blockchain Ecosystem notably stands out from other blockchains, and even from other sovereignty-driven blockchains, in quite a goodly number of ways, but it is in the financial domain that Hive really shines. Not only is Hive the most elegant and efficient version of a financial system that I've ever seen, it is also (from what I've seen so far) the most financially practical and versatile blockchain presently available.

Within Hive, feeless, 3-second transactions make operations on the Blockchain, both in layer 1 and layer 2, exceedingly quick and efficient, but it is Hive's interface with the world that make it abundantly clear just how astonishingly practical and versatile Hive is in terms of finance. Hive's assets, both directly and indirectly, can now be used in an ever-growing number of locations worldwide to pay for real-world goods and services.

The fantastic success that @hivesucre is having in Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela, to onboard local businesses to accept HBD as a valid form of tender, is a stellar example of how Hive assets can be used directly in the world. This is now being replicated in a grass-roots manner in other countries and cities, and for good reason, as it is allowing and helping people to successfully surmount their local economic conditions and situations.

With the addition of V4VAPP, it is now easy to use Hive assets for payments to any business that accepts BTC/Bitcoin, and as such a whole new financial playing field is opened up. Using Hive Keychain's mobile app, it is now an easy and quick process to use a mobile phone to send (and receive) payments, both in Hive-native assets like HIVE and HBD, and in off-chain assets like BTC. Also, given that a wide variety of cryptocurrencies can be bought, sold, traded, sent, and received via their respective SWAP counterparts on our internal decentralized exchange, Hive Engine (SWAP.BTC, SWAP.BCH, SWAP.DOGE, SWAP.LTC, SWAP.MATIC, to name a few significant ones), this allows us incredible flexibility and versatility in terms of how we are able to send and receive payments. That is powerful to say the least, and added to the fact that we truly own our Hive assets across layer 1 and layer 2, it's exactly why Hive is such a significant tool and framework for liberating and empowering people around the world. Yep, that's pretty exciting!

Yesterday, Wednesday, I left the Flow House just a bit after 2PM, after finishing up my Hive tasks, straining out and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) being where I gave my attention first. I took a fair number of photos for these posts as well, at different points in the day, as the sun came out to play. For land work, I filled, transported across the property (very good exercise!), and emptied, two wheelbarrow loads of soil along the trail going up to the Flow House, just before the lava wall, to expand my planting beds there. After a shower and a short break, I got my machete and cleared around the starfruit trees and our jungle hot tub next to the Peanut Lawn. After working, I took another shower, made myself a kickass cheeseburger, then I headed back to the Flow House, to enjoy my burger, to get into my evening Hive tasks, and to catch up fully on my notifications. I got everything on Hive done by just after 10:30PM, and after scanning my Bastyon and X feeds for a time, I went to bed around 11:45PM. I slept fairly well, waking up around 7AM, doing a round of token management, beginning on this post, and then going to make my superfood fire coffee.

It's now just before 11:45AM, so a marvelous time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first strain out and blend kefir, hopefully take more photos for these posts, and then land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until the next expression of this post tomorrow! Always forward, onward, and upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

If you'd like to send me a BTC Lighting Tip (made possible by the fantastic work of brianoflondon on @v4vapp), just scan the QR image below. 👇

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