It’s Happening: Goldman Sachs Just Dropped $50 Million Into a Bitcoin
It was only last year that Goldman Sachs was telling investors that Bitcoin wasn’t a safe store of value. Looks like they’ve come around.

A bitcoin startup called Circle says that, as of yesterday, they’ve taken a $50 million in funding in an investment co-led by Goldman Sachs and a Chinese venture firm called IDG Capital Partners. Circle is a company that uses the blockchain—the technology that all bitcoin transactions rest on—to move money quickly with no lumbering transaction fees.

http://observer.com/2015/04/its-happening-goldman-sachs-just-dropped-50-million-into-a-bitcoin-startup/

US Police Officer Charged with Receiving Stolen Bitcoin Miners
A New Jersey police officer has been arrested and charged with receiving stolen property after allegedly selling stolen bitcoin mining equipment.
http://www.coindesk.com/nj-cop-charged-with-receiving-stolen-bitcoin-miners/

Bitcoin is 100 times More Powerful than Google
Allow me to introduce you to someone who has the potential to be very important in the future of Bitcoin. His name is Balaji Srinivasan, and he is the chairman and co-founder of 21 Inc. What is 21 Inc? 21 Inc. is the Bitcoin startup that secured the most venture capital of any Bitcoin company in history, at $116 million. What do they need $116 million in venture capital for? They are investing in “future proprietary products designed to drive mainstream adoption of Bitcoin.” With that in mind, the research of 21 Inc. has highlighted some interesting Bitcoin factoids. One Srinivasan released at the second annual Bitcoin Job Fair held last weekend in Sunnyvale, California regarding how big Bitcoin has become in the computing world.
Google is big, but Bitcoin is bigger. How big is it?
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-100-times-powerful-google/

Liberland Chooses Bitcoin as National Currency
Liberland is the newest European country. Liberland came into existence due to a border dispute between Croatia and Serbia. This area along the west bank of the Danube river is not claimed by Croatia, Serbia or any other country. It was therefore terra nullius, a no man’s land, until Vít Jedlička seized the opportunity and on 13 April 2015 formed a new state in this territory. Vit Jedlicka, settled the country on this territory and has established Bitcoin as the national currency.
http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/04/19/liberland-chooses-bitcoin-national-currency/

PayPal Merchants Can Now Accept Bitcoin
In a long SEC filing from today, PayPal states that its merchants can now begin accepting Bitcoin. As the original text to the filing reads:

    A merchant can typically open a standard PayPal account and begin accepting payments through PayPal within a few minutes. Most online or mobile merchants can onboard quickly and are not required to invest in new or specialized hardware. Our Payments Platform supports growth with a variety of value-added services designed to help businesses of all sizes manage their cash flow, invoice clients, pay bills, and reduce the need for merchants to receive and store sensitive customer financial information. For our standard service, we do not charge merchants setup or recurring fees. A merchant can also integrate with Braintree to begin accepting payments with credit or debit cards, PayPal, Venmo, digital currencies such as Bitcoin, or other payment solutions with a single integration.
http://www.tradersnetwork.biz/breaking-paypal-merchants-can-now-accept-bitcoin/#.VSkhmouuERc.linkedin

Rand Paul is first presidential candidate to accept donations in Bitcoin
 It marks the first time that a candidate for president has accepted purely digital campaign funds.

The Libertarian Republican is an obvious choice to test the waters. Bitcoins are an independent currency that's totally outside the realm of U.S. dollars. It's like Euros or Yen -- except bitcoins are created and distributed privately by a community of tech enthusiasts.

Bitcoin fits in with Paul's views that government should take a more "hands off" approach to controlling the nation's money supply, which drives up inflation and devalues the currency. He's also likely trying to draw the attention of young, tech-savvy voters.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/07/technology/rand-paul-bitcoin/index.html

Iceland To Take Power To Create Money Away From Rothschild Cartel
Who knew that the revolution would start with those radical Icelanders? It does, though. One Frosti Sigurjonsson, a lawmaker from the ruling Progress Party, issued a report today that suggests taking the power to create money away from commercial banks, and hand it to the central bank and, ultimately, Parliament.

Can’t see commercial banks in the western world be too happy with this. They must be contemplating wiping the island nation off the map. If accepted in the Iceland parliament , the plan would change the game in a very radical way. It would be successful too, because there is no bigger scourge on our economies than commercial banks creating money and then securitizing and selling off the loans they just created the money (credit) with.

Everyone, with the possible exception of Paul Krugman, understands why this is a very sound idea. Agence France Presse reports:
http://www.conspiracyclub.co/2015/04/05/iceland-bank-rothschild/