Looking back at the Uptober XRP spark of 2024

Dear Crypto Diary, I am sitting here in late 2026, flipping through the physical pages of my journey and I just stopped at Crypto Diary #11. It is wild to look back at October 1st, 2024, when I sat down with my neon markers to document the start of that Uptober. Back then, XRP was sitting at $0.62 and the Fear and Greed index was a neutral 48. Everyone was holding their breath, wondering if the pump was actually coming. Looking at the ink on this paper reminds me why I started this mission on xrp.cafe. While the world gets flooded with soulless AI-slop, these hand-drawn lines are a permanent record of our resilience. Each stroke of my ballpoint pen captured the tension of a Bitcoin price at $63,800. My goal remains unchanged: BiTi Artist is building the most recognized NFT collection in the world by keeping it raw and human. We don't just track charts; we track the soul of the market. Seeing where we are today in 2026 versus that neutral 48 reading makes me realize how far the XRPL community has traveled. The ink never lies.