James Diorio
May 31, 2026

This month, dear reader, we’re going to take a look at some bricks. And, since the NBA playoffs are here let me clarify that I don’t mean a missed shot. I’m talking about the small but quite important building bricks that, when put together, create something exciting. Something grand. Something where the whole far exceeds

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James Diorio
April 30, 2026

Hello dear reader, and welcome to our April Crypto: Decrypted. April was a mixed bag for our space, with some amazing movement which I’m going to put in the “setting the table” category, as legislation seemingly broke out of gridlock while, simultaneously, big banks jumped in big time. On the flip side the North Korean

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James Diorio
March 31, 2026

Hello friends and welcome to our March installment of Crypto: Decrypted. Obviously, war is on everyone’s mind. It is the thing that is dominating news, impacting markets, influencing financial decisions and, well, consuming us. Over the course of the previous month we learned a lot of things about blockchain and crypto in the midst of

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James Diorio
February 28, 2026

Welcome back friends. I’ll start this month by noting that I had a perfectly good February blog all mapped out. Bears. Regulation. A little DeFi. Maybe a dad joke or two. And then on the last day of the month the US went to war with Iran. So… we’re going to talk about that too.

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James Diorio
February 7, 2026

Welcome my friends to the January 2025 Crypto: Decrypted. It’s a New Year. New hopes. New beginnings. But… not new crypto markets, it would seem. Now, before I dive in I need to add a bit of a disclaimer. I normally write this shortly after the end of the month that I am writing about

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James Diorio
December 31, 2025

Well, Crypto Santa sure didn’t make it this year. Almost all expectations were that 2025 would leave us in record-breaking territory and staggering market highs. We didn’t. I suppose in some ways we did break-records, however instead of highs and ending in “Ho Ho Ho” we actually ended the (cycle) year for the first time

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