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Bitcoin faces $240B demand shock as 'surprise' tax refunds and new IRS crypto rules arrive

Bigger U.S. tax refunds, new crypto rules, and faster payouts are turning refund season into a real-world test of Bitcoin's retail demand.

Bitcoin has spent the first half of April trading in the low $70,000s, with recent moves through the $71,000 to $75,000 zone keeping the asset close enough to its highs for retail attention to return quickly.

But there's a more important change happening beneath the surface.

A lot of household cash is moving through the U.S. financial system as today's April 15 tax deadline arrives. This year, tax season is also more complicated for people who own crypto.

This overlap creates a more interesting situation than the usual talk about ETFs or the broader economy.

Recent IRS statistics show just how big the refund channel is now.

Bitcoin faces $240B demand shock as 'surprise' tax

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Kalshi to create ‘portal for parents‘ on prediction markets: Report Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour reportedly announced a new strategy for the prediction markets platform to crack down on min

Kalshi to create ‘portal for parents‘ on prediction markets: Report
Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour reportedly announced a new strategy for the prediction markets platform to crack down on minors illegally using its services.
According to a Wednesday Semafor report, Mansour said that Kalshi was launching a “portal for parents” to submit their identification to check whether their children were using the platforms under their names. There have been incidents in which minors have been able to bypass Kalshi’s age requirements — a US-based user must be 18 years old — by using one of their parent’s IDs for verification.

“We are also adding selfies to accounts, where you can basically look at the face of a person, and it can tell you obviously if this person is not the actual parent that’s 50 years old,” said Mansour, according to Semafor.



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Fireblocks is expanding its institutional toolbox with a new feature called Earn, designed to channel idle stablecoin balances into on-chain lending strategies powered by Aave and Morpho. The company 

Fireblocks Debuts Institutional Yield Tool for Stablecoins

Bitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?HTX Community Spring Creation ContestMarket Rally! Claim Your Airdrop Ripple has struck a new partnership with Kyobo Life Insurance to explore what it says would b

Ripple has struck a new partnership with Kyobo Life Insurance to explore what it says would be Korea’s first tokenized government bond settlement workflow on blockchain, extending the company’s institutional push in Asia into the country’s insurance sector.

The partnership is built around Ripple Custody, which will be used to hold, transfer, and settle tokenized government bond transactions within a regulated institutional framework. The firm said the setup is designed to replace fragmented, manual settlement processes with on-chain execution, potentially compressing the standard two-day settlement cycle into near real-time.

Ripple Signs First Tier-1 Korean Insurer for Custody Push

Kyobo, one of Korea’s largest and most established life insurers, will work with Ripple to assess both the technical and regulatory feasibility of tokenized Treasury settlement within Korea’s financial system. The custody layer sits at the center of that effort. Ripple described Ripple Custody as a bank-grade, fully integrated platform built for regulated financial institutions, supporting the secure transfer, settlement, and management of digital assets.

Notably, the announcement positions custody not as a standalone product, but as the first layer of a broader institutional stack that could later expand into tokenization, payments, liquidity, and treasury management. In other words, the bond-settlement pilot is being presented as infrastructure, not a one-off proof of concept.

Ripple also tied the partnership to a larger modernization argument around government bond markets. By settling transactions simultaneously on-chain, the companies say institutions could reduce counterparty risk and improve capital efficiency. 

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Bitcoin miner HIVE lines up $75 million note offering to fund AI infrastructure expansion

HIVE Digital Technologies announced a private offering of $75 million in 0% exchangeable senior notes due 2031 to fund GPU procurement, data center expansion, and general corporate purposes.

The company also received conditional approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange, with shares expected to transition from the TSX Venture Exchange to the TSX around April 30.

HIVE Digital Technologies (HIVE) plans to offer $75 million of 0% exchangeable senior notes due 2031, as the publicly traded bitcoin miner moves to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure and data center footprint.

The notes will be issued to qualified investors by HIVE Bermuda 2026 Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary. Net proceeds are expected to support general corporate purposes and capital investment, including the purchase of graphics processing units and data center expansion, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.

Per the statement, the issuer also expects to grant initial purchasers a 13-day option to acquire up to an additional $15 million of the notes. The securities will not bear regular interest and will mature in 2031. Under certain conditions, the notes can be exchanged into cash, HIVE common shares, or a combination of both at the issuer’s election once final pricing terms and the initial exchange rate are determined. 

In connection with the transaction, HIVE intends to fund capped call transactions using cash on hand. The issuer may use a portion of the net proceeds to reimburse HIVE for the cost of those transactions, the company said, noting that the capped call transactions are designed to reduce potential economic dilution of common shares upon exchange of any notes or offset cash payments the company could be required to make in excess of principal, ....


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HTX Community Spring Creation ContestBitcoin Up 2 Weeks: Beginning or End?Claim1,200 USDT in the Monthly Creation Challenge SHIB Outlook as Price Remains Range-Bound Meanwhile, Shiba Inu is in a range

SHIB Outlook as Price Remains Range-Bound

Meanwhile, Shiba Inu is in a range on higher timeframes. On the daily chart, the token has trended within a channel for 35 days, dating back to March 11. Within this wedge, it has shuffled between the upper resistance and lower support trendlines.

Currently, SHIB is approaching the channel's lower support after a 2.83% drop on Tuesday. If bears continue to dominate proceedings, the price may fall to retest the support around $0.00000562. Losing this level could cause the meme coin to break down, targeting $0.00000523 first, then Saved

However, regaining momentum around the current level or the support paves the way for a retest of the channel's upper resistance at $0.00000625. A breakout, if momentum persists, targets $0.00000644 first. The next major resistance is around the February 14 lower high of $0.00000725.

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BlockBeats News, April 14, According to PR Newswire, the "Verifiable AI Compute Layer" project OpenGradient today announced that it has raised a total of $9.5 million to expand its open and auditable 

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Steak 'n Shake Teases "Bitcoin Milkshake" for Bitcoin Conference 2026

Steak 'n Shake teased a Bitcoin-themed "Milkshake" for the Bitcoin Conference 2026, reinforcing its broader Bitcoin-focused strategy spanning payments, treasury, and payroll.

Steak 'n Shake plans to open Bitcoin Conference 2026 with a themed "Bitcoin Milkshake," deepening a broader pivot that now spans payments, treasury strategy, and employee compensation in Bitcoin. The limited-time drink presumably will debut on April 27, across participating locations as the chain positions itself as the fast-food brand most aligned with Bitcoin culture.

The company teased the "Bitcoin Milkshake" on X and "new plans", calling the milkshake the best way to start Bitcoin Conference 2026 and featuring branding tailored to conference attendees and Bitcoin fans. The rollout targets visitors heading to the annual gathering and regular customers who already pay with Bitcoin at the chain's restaurants.

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Cardano’s ADA has shown intriguing price movements against the backdrop of significant security breaches in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. A notable incident reported by CertiK on April 16 i

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