Gino Matos

Articles by Gino Matos

Violent Bitcoin crash cries β€œmulti-billion dollar manipulation” as on-chain data catches market maker dumping

Crypto December 31, 2025

Bitcoin's tape over the past 24 hours looked engineered for crypto investors, as BTC surpassed the $90,000 threshold in the early hours of Dec. 29, only to give back those gains less than 12 hours laοΏ½...

How browser extensions expose crypto to a fatal design flaw the industry ignored, bleeding $713M in 2025

Crypto December 28, 2025

Trust Wallet's Chrome extension shipped a malicious update in December, exfiltrating wallet data and draining roughly $7 million from hundreds of accounts before the company pushed a fix. The comproοΏ½...

Bitcoin ETF β€œrecord outflows” are deceptive as crypto products absorbed $46.7 billion in 2025

Crypto December 28, 2025

Bitcoin ETF headlines have turned into a scoreboard with β€œrecord inflows,” β€œlargest outflows ever,” and β€œinstitutions dumping.” The problem is that most stories isolate a single day or a s...

The Bitcoin β€œhard asset” narrative is breaking as silver hits parabolic peaks without taking crypto along for the ride

Crypto December 26, 2025

Silver left the $50 range in late November and went parabolic into year-end, registering consecutive all-time highs and hitting $72 an ounce on Dec. 24. Gold made a similar run throughout 2025, reachοΏ½...

Crypto sentiment is trapped in extreme fear because the industry’s biggest structural wins are failing to move prices

Crypto December 26, 2025

Crypto sentiment gauges have spent the past two months deep in the red. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index has spent more than 30% of 2025 in fear or extreme fear territory, and alternative trackers pοΏ½...

10 stories that rewired digital finance in 2025 – the year crypto became infrastructure

Crypto December 26, 2025

This year opened with Bitcoin (BTC) proponents expecting a clean rally, driven by halving narratives, spot ETF momentum, and a Fed pivot all stacked neatly in their favor. Instead, the year closed wοΏ½...

Ethereum is vanishing from exchanges, and the massive wallets absorbing it prove you aren’t the target audience anymore

Crypto December 24, 2025

Ethereum (ETH) broke its 2021 all-time high in August, brushing $4,945 and a $600 billion market cap, while exchange balances hit record lows. Corporate treasuries and spot ETFs now control nearly 1οΏ½...

Bitcoin’s market β€œplumbing” is now owned by these major banks that are controlling the price action

Crypto December 24, 2025

The crypto market in 2025 looked nothing like it did in 2021. No parabolic rallies, no Reddit threads going vertical, no NFT floor prices exploding, Google Trends stayed quiet. Instead, the dominantοΏ½...

Bitcoin stalled at $90,000 because that β€œperfect” inflation report hides a massive data error

Crypto December 24, 2025

US inflation came in softer than expected, and the Fed delivered its third consecutive rate cut. The Bank of Japan raised rates for the first time in three decades without triggering a meltdown. On οΏ½...

Charles Hoskinson argues the TRUMP token cost crypto a 70-vote Senate win and sparked the Bitcoin-only crisis

Crypto December 23, 2025

Charles Hoskinson recently argued that the launch of TRUMP three days before President Donald Trump's inauguration derailed what would have been a 70-vote Senate majority for the CLARITY Act and turnοΏ½...