Looking Back at the XRP Struggle and Crypto Spring

Dear Crypto Diary, I am sitting in the studio today, August 17th, 2026, flipping through the physical pages of my journey. My eyes landed on Crypto Diary #14, and man, the memories came rushing back. It was October 16th, 2024, a time when we were all staring at the charts wondering if it was a true Crypto Spring or just another rejection zone. The Fear and Greed index was sitting at 58, that awkward neutral zone where nobody knows whether to celebrate or hide. I remember drawing those neon markers around the price of XRP at 0.54 and Bitcoin at 67,500 dollars, feeling every stroke of my ballpoint pen against the paper. This is why I do this. In a world full of soulless AI-slop, these hand-drawn pages on xrp.cafe are real fragments of my life and our shared history. My mission hasn't changed a bit: I am building the biggest and most recognized human NFT collection in the world. Every line I draw is a middle finger to the machines and a tribute to the diamond-handed community that believes in the XRPL. We have come so far since that 2024 rejection zone, and we are just getting started.