"EFTA and ATMIA went on to suggest that established ATM networks – both those operated by financial institutions (FIs) and non-FIs – could gain ‘first-mover advantage’ in the bitcoin industry by leveraging their financial resources and technical capabilities to court this market."

Let the games begin....

http://www.coindesk.com/why-the-atm-industry-could-launch-bitcoin-into-the-mainstream/

Bitcoin ATM maker Diamond Circle has announced it will launch a bitcoin debit card this week at the Bitcoin 2014 Conference in Amsterdam, in conjunction with its UK distributor Swiftbitz.  Full article here:

http://www.coindesk.com/atm-maker-diamond-circle-launch-bitcoin-debit-card/

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/how-kids-are-using-bitcoin-to-buy-fake-ids-online/362008/

"The Winklevoss Trust updated its regulatory filing on the bitcoin ETF this week, disclosing that the fund will be listed on the Nasdaq."

http://www.etf.com/sections/features/22067-bitcoin-etf-plan-alive-and-well.html

http://www.pymnts.com/news/2014/bitcoin-board-welcomes-two-new-members/#.U20gP9hOXcs

BTC China CEO Bobby Lee and venture capitalist Brock Pierce both came out in top in the second round of voting among the organization’s industry members.

8pip, a Singapore-based company, has plans to launch what it claims to be the world’s first prepaid Bitcoin cards. The cards will be launched at Startup Asia Singapore 2014 on May 7th.

With prepaid Bitcoin cards, customers will be able to purchase bitcoins by simply buying a card. They can then go to the CardToCoin website in order to redeem the Bitcoin from the card.  When the details of the card are typed in, the bitcoins will automatically be transferred to a customer’s Bitcoin wallet.

Full article here:

https://coinreport.net/8pip-launches-prepaid-bitcoin-card/

Despite his cynicism regarding a virtual currency marketplace, Summers disparaged bitcoin critics by saying they are “on the wrong side of history.”

http://www.pfhub.com/larry-summers-former-us-treasury-secretary-its-a-serious-mistake-to-write-off-bitcoin-637/

Full Article Here:

http://newsbtc.com/2014/05/01/bitcoin-foundation-election-yields-new-board-members/

Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference, Bitcoin's Gavin Andresen says it could be 20-30 years before he uses Bitcoin every day, but says price volatility will subside as more people use it:

http://uk.reuters.com/video/2014/05/01/milken-bitcoins-top-geek-on-the-new-curr?videoId=312787879&videoChannel=1

 Food delivery provider to start accepting bitcoin.  More here:

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/12639/menufy-integrates-bitcoin/

Full article here:

http://newsbtc.com/2014/05/01/rand-paul-thinks-bitcoin-backed-stocks/

"And actually my theory, if I were setting it up, I’d make it exchangeable for stock. And then it’d have real value. And I’d have it pegged, and I’d have a basket of 10 big retailers. Because I read [Marc] Andreessen’s article a couple months ago. What fascinated me about it was those 2 to 3% margins. If you multiply that out for all of Wal-Mart and they don’t have to use Visa anymore, I’m guessing the people who have to be worried here are Visa and MasterCard. I think it would work, but I think, because I’m sort of a believer in currency having value, if you’re going to create a currency, have it backed up by — you know, Hayek used to talk about a basket of commodities? You could have a basket of stocks, and have some exchangeability, because it’s hard for people like me who are a bit tangible. But you could have an average of stocks, I’m wondering if that’s the next permutation."

Full article here:

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/bitcoin_beer/

Check out the article:

http://www.cnet.com/news/yelp-now-lists-businesses-that-accept-bitcoin/

http://newsbtc.com/2014/04/24/robocoin-shipping-50-bitcoin-atms-summer-announcing-something-big-may-1st/

No indication was provided as to what the announcement might be.... 

"A startup named Storj.io has hatched one such idea: use the blockchain, or the ledger of bitcoin transactions distributed across computers that interact with bitcoin's network, as a way to denote where files are stored in participating servers on the network. The files themselves are public-key encrypted before being inserted into the network....."

http://www.infoworld.com/t/encryption/bitcoin-finally-pays-in-secure-cloud-storage-240386

Here is the translated page:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coins3.com%2F2014-04-14%2F920%2F&edit-text=&act=url

Convert your btc to a prepaid CC, well in Brazilian real anyway...


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/brazils-bitinvest-launches-matercard-compliant-bitcoin-card-potential-global-reach-1444357

A story on BitGo's multi private key wallet:

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/bitcoin-harder-to-steal/

Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers that Bitcoin and other virtual currencies pose a challenge for law enforcement agencies, because they can be used to "conceal illegal activity."

http://money.cnn.com/2014/04/08/technology/bitcoin-holder/

Holder told lawmakers that the Justice Department is "committed to innovating alongside this new technology in order to ensure our investigations are not impeded by any improvement in criminals' ability to move funds anonymously."

Comments like that just tells me the TPTB are going to allow BTC to be part of our economy, for selfish reasons of course *cough* wall st. *cough*.

The volatility in bitcoin is sometimes more than 200%, said Pantera Capital Management Chief Executive Dan Morehead.

To offset that volatility, Pantera has an offering that gives its investors a 50-50 mix of bitcoin and U.S. Treasurys, he said at the Inside Bitcoins conference in New York on Tuesday.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2014/04/08/watered-down-bitcoin-for-institutional-investors/