14 March 2026
Austin, Texas, USA

Gino Matos

Articles by Gino Matos

Crypto holders in France are being violently targeted again — and it’s no longer just insiders

CryptoMarch 14, 2026

A French couple held at knifepoint in their home near Versailles and forced to transfer roughly 900,000 in Bitcoin would normally read like a rare, tragic story. But in France, it now fits a patternâ...

BlackRock’s new product launch just made Ethereum income impossible to ignore

CryptoMarch 14, 2026

BlackRock's new staked Ethereum ETF (ETHB) is easy to misunderstand. This is not the first time ETH staking has finally reached exchange-traded products, as Grayscale has already crossed that bridgeâ...

The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over

CryptoMarch 14, 2026

The next big Bitcoin policy fight may have nothing to do with ETFs or government legislation, but with a dry Federal Reserve capital proposal that most investors will never read. The landscape is siâ...

Prosecutors push to retry Tornado Cash founder even after Washington said crypto mixers have legal uses

CryptoMarch 12, 2026

Washington sent two messages about crypto privacy in the same week. Treasury told Congress that lawful users of digital assets may leverage mixers to protect personal wealth, business payments, charâ...

Is crypto needed to protect the security of AI agents paying each other online?

CryptoMarch 12, 2026

The infrastructure race for agentic commerce is already producing winners. Anthropic's Model Context Protocol now runs on more than 10,000 public servers and pulls 97 million monthly SDK downloads, â...

SEC pressure on crypto giants fades as Trump-linked project draws $75M from Justin Sun

CryptoMarch 9, 2026

On Mar. 5, Justin Sun reached a $10 million settlement with the SEC to resolve a civil fraud case that alleged he generated $31 million through wash-trading-style transactions and undisclosed celebri…...

Refusing new IRS crypto tax forms could cost you your exchange account

CryptoMarch 9, 2026

Log in to Coinbase next tax season, and your tax documents might no longer arrive by mail. Under a new IRS proposal, crypto exchanges could be required to file Form 1099-DA electronically. This form…...

Sam Bankman-Fried requests new trial claiming FTX had $16.5 billion surplus in 2022, but does it matter?

CryptoFebruary 12, 2026

Sam Bankman-Fried filed a motion for a new trial on Feb. 10, advancing a claim that reframes FTX's collapse not as fraud-driven insolvency but as a recoverable liquidity crisis. The motion invokes R…...

Ethereum wants home validators to verify proofs but a 12 GPU reality raises a new threat

CryptoFebruary 11, 2026

Ethereum researcher ladislaus.eth published a walkthrough last week explaining how Ethereum plans to move from re-executing every transaction to verifying zero-knowledge proofs. The post frames it a…...

Bitcoin’s slide to $60k puts BTC treasury companies $10B underwater as one major firm is braces for a $27B disaster

CryptoFebruary 7, 2026

Bitcoin's (BTC) slide to as low as $60,233 overnight, before recovering somewhat to $65,443, has left most of the largest pure-play Bitcoin treasury companies deeply underwater on their holdings, wit…...