> I do think Bitcoin is the first that has the potential to do something like change the world. ~ P. Thiel

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 ## Luas website down after Bitcoin message appears| Sarah Burns
[Tram services operating as normal while investigation continues](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/luas-website-down-after-bitcoin-message-appears-1.3746674)

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 ## Thanks Satoshi Nakamoto! BitMEX Advertises on Front Page of The Times 10 Years Later| 
[BitMEX has taken an advertisement out on the front page of January 3rd, 2019 edition of The Times thanking Satoshi Nakamoto for Bitcoin, ten years to the day after Satoshi Nakamoto quoted the front page](https://www.ccn.com/bitmex-thanks-satoshi-nakamoto-front-page-times-10-years-after-bitcoin-genesis-block/)

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 ## Single Mining Pool Gains 50% of Bitcoin Cash Hashrate| 
[Bitcoin Cash mining centralization has reached a level where just one pool is controlling half of its hashrate, according to Coin Dance.    The crypto statistics service found that BTC.TOP mining pool, a China-based private entity, took](https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-cash-single-mining-pool-controls-half-of-hashrate/)

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 ## 7 of the best, top, highest rated, essential books on Bitcoin and blockchain| Matthew Beedham
[We were all cryptocurrency and blockchain novices once. We tried to overcome our shortcomings by reading endless mind boggling Telegram chats. But there is a simpler way! Books! Of course, there will always be things for us to learn, but here’s a list of Hard…](https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/01/02/blockchain-cryptocurrency-books-2019/)

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