Gino Matos

Articles by Gino Matos

How a β€œJellyfish UFO video” and PDF fueled a controversial 1,700% market explosion

Crypto December 11, 2025

A Polymarket contract asking whether President Donald Trump will declassify UFO files in 2025 sat at 5.5% on Dec. 6. The next day, it rocketed toward 90%. The trigger wasn’t a White House announcem...

Crypto market adds $150 billion in 24 hours: Why is Bitcoin up today?

Crypto December 11, 2025

Bitcoin (BTC) trades at $92,900, up 4% on the day, as $150 billion flowed into the total crypto market cap, a 3% gain as of press time. The price briefly touched $94,600 before pulling back, cappingοΏ½...

Bitcoin liquidity has vanished into a β€œshadow” system where corporate debt cycles now dictate the crash risk

Crypto December 10, 2025

As of Dec. 8, Bitcoin ETFs hold 1,495,160 BTC and public companies hold 1,076,061 BTC. Combined, that’s roughly 2.57 million BTC, substantially more than the 2.09 million BTC sitting on centralized ...

China’s $71 billion Treasury dump exposes a critical gap between Bitcoin’s narrative and central bank reality

Crypto December 10, 2025

The BRICS bloc now counts 11 members, and several of the largest holders have trimmed their US Treasury positions over the past year. China cut its stake by $71.5 billion between September 2024 and οΏ½...

Binance confirmed a rogue employee used the company account to pump a personal token 4,600% in minutes

Crypto December 10, 2025

On Dec. 7, at 05:29 UTC, someone deployed a token called β€œyear of yellow fruit” on-chain. Less than one minute later, the Binance Futures official account posted text and images promoting the tok...

Citadel pushes SEC to classify open-source developers as unregistered stockbrokers – Uniswap fires back

Crypto December 7, 2025

On Dec. 2, Citadel Securities filed a 13-page letter with the SEC arguing that decentralized protocols facilitating tokenized US equity trading already meet statutory definitions of exchanges and broοΏ½...

Zcash and privacy protocols face a β€œdo-or-die” SEC meeting that determines if developers are personally liable for code

Crypto December 7, 2025

The SEC’s Crypto Task Force scheduled a four-hour roundtable on financial surveillance and privacy for Dec. 15, bringing together zero-knowledge proof developers, civil liberties advocates, and prot...