The Terrible Tariffbull & TradFi’s Blockchain Embrace

James Diorio
October 31, 2025

Welcome readers! We’re going to start this month by noting that October has been, among the crypto crowd, affectionately known as “Uptober” for many, many years. This is, of course because historically October is a month which brings outsized crypto gains, particularly at this point in our cycle. This Uptober however, not so much, as

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Wall Street Degens & GDP on BTC?!?

James Diorio
September 30, 2025

Well friends, it’s been a little bit since my last missive. As the last days of August took hold and summer wound down I took a small breather. Of course, the world of blockchain and crypto didn’t stop at all, and what with record inflows to Ethereum ETFs, rate cuts, and adoption happening in the

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Congress Progress, Clever Customs

James Diorio
July 31, 2025

July was another banner month for the crypto industry with new and positive regulation, the macro environment clearing up leading to an all-time high in Bitcoin while, simultaneously, the rest of the crypto markets roared to life. We’ll begin this month by looking at the regulation that passed and its impact, and then we’ll look

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Banks go Crypto, Stablecoins Circle, AI and the M2M Economy

James Diorio
June 30, 2025

Hello friends. I’ve got a fun blog in store for you today, blending the current headlines and key news with some glimpses of where our world is evolving – perhaps in ways you might not have thought of.  On the crypto front, while bitcoin bounced around and really didn’t do much in June in light

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Acceptance without Adoption and Banks on Blockchains

James Diorio
May 31, 2025

I’ll start with the obvious. In the wake of Trump’s tariff threats easing, global monetary expansion and weakening dollar, bitcoin surged to touch $111.8k in May. I’ll not belabor this point as there are much more interesting things to discuss but I do want to say that this is exactly what we were expecting on

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Safe Havens, Stable Geniuses, and the IMF

James Diorio
April 14, 2025

Q1 2025 has just wrapped up and, wow, from a markets’ perspective it’s almost exactly like no one expected. Trump led the charge with tariffs and tanked all markets with a mix of uncertainty, fear, doubt etc. Having said that, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Without further ado let’s see what

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