Staring at Crypto Diary #135 while the XRPL grows

Dear Crypto Diary, I am sitting in the studio today, 2026-09-11, looking back at Crypto Diary #135. It is a page that still makes my hand shake a little when I think about the ink hitting the paper. Back on May 7th, 2026, I was absolutely fuming about the news out of Germany. They were planning to raise taxes on cryptocurrency while telling everyone to plan for retirement. It felt like being robbed in broad daylight by the very people who should be providing clarity. I remember focusing all that nervous energy into the ballpoint pen, capturing the moment when we were all waiting for that clarity markup the following week. This is what the Crypto Diary is all about—capturing the raw, human frustration of the markets without a single drop of AI-slop. I hand-draw these entries to ensure that when we look back at xrp.cafe, we see the real history of the XRP Ledger through a human lens. We are building the biggest NFT collection in the world, one stroke at a time, proving that real art and real history belong together on the blockchain. Stay focused, stay human, and keep holding that pen.