Reflecting on the 2024 Bitcoin Election Tensions

Dear Crypto Diary, I am sitting in the studio today, September 11, 2026, looking back at one of my most pivotal hand-drawn pages. I just pulled up Crypto Diary #21, titled Day of Decision. It takes me right back to November 5, 2024. The energy back then was electric and terrifying all at once. I remember holding my ballpoint pen, tracking BTC at $70,200 and ETH at $2,460 while the world held its breath for the U.S. election. The Fear and Greed index was sitting at a neutral 50, a total calm before the storm. Seeing my neon markers on that physical paper reminds me why I started this journey on xrp.cafe. While the world gets flooded with soulless machine-generated images, I am still here grinding, proving that real human art belongs on the XRPL. Every stroke on that page was a moment of history captured forever. We are building the biggest NFT collection in the world, one day at a time, documenting the volatility and the victories. XRP and the broader market have come so far since that neutral day in 2024, but the mission remains the same: no shortcuts, just raw ink and truth.