Looking Back at the Harvard Bitcoin Boom

Dear Crypto Diary, I am sitting here in 2026 looking over my old sketches, and I keep coming back to Crypto Diary #82. It takes me straight back to August 9th, 2025, a day that felt like a massive shift in the atmosphere. I remember my hand cramping as I drew those bold lines with my ballpoint pen, capturing the moment the news broke that Harvard officially bought the BTC ETF. When I saw ETH jump over five percent while I was shading the neon borders, I knew this collection was documenting a new era of finance. Every entry at xrp.cafe/collection/crypto-diary is a piece of me, a refusal to let the soul of the XRPL be washed away by low-effort AI-slop. This journey isn't just about price charts; it is about building the biggest and most recognized NFT collection on the planet by being unapologetically human. Looking at the raw texture of #82 reminds me why I started this: to bridge the gap between permanent hand-drawn art and the volatile energy of the blockchain. We are making history, one marker stroke at a time, proving that real passion beats an algorithm every single day.