Topic: Is Satoshi's real identity Trinity grad student Michael Clear? (Read 6495 times)

You mean this thread or this for instance? (there are more) What looks like a cs is most likely just the inabillity to build a proper search index.

Another relevant article from the Irish Times:




http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/1008/1224305442727.html

Bitcoin uses existing cryptography algorithms so I guess Satoshi didn't need to be a cryptography expert? Or do we know for sure Satoshi was?

Getting back on topic...

Here are a couple articles that followed on from the New Yorker one:

Bitcoin shows the value of not depending on its maker
DANNY O'BRIEN October 7, 2011
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/1007/1224305381674.html

The Bitcoin Crypto-Currency Mystery Reopened
BY Adam PenenbergTue Oct 11, 2011
http://www.fastcompany.com/1785445/crypto-currency-mystery


I like the point the first one makes. Bitcoin does not, should not, rely on any one personality or group. 
Satoshi was probably making the same point by choosing to remain anonymous.
It is, at least partly, about moving away from centralized systems, and cults of personality, and kings and presidents, etc. 
to decentralized systems. 

Yep.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointorrentzcom-torrent-download-service-42477

Anywho, I don't want to drag this topic any further OT.
Thanks for the stimulating discussion.

Don't worry mate, it's easy to differentiate racism from harmless provocation.
I would not have spent all that time replying to you otherwise.

I know, it's ridiculous. I cannot believe there are people who are still so bigoted in this day and age.
I will not be responding to any more of thisisgil's racist comments.

Clocked it!

It only took a page and a half to go from "Who is Satoshi" to "RACISM!!!"

That a new record?

No, we weren't always british. Ireland was populated by gaelic clans and hibeno-normans before the country became the first victim of british colonialism in the 16th century. Ireland was the test-ground where the british first flexed the muscles of their imperial ambitions.


You are an ignorant, uneducated, and intolerable bigot who doesn't understand the definition of the term "race". So you mean to say that Irish people are NOT a race? You don't have the faintest idea what you are talking about.

Wikipedia: Race is classification of humans into large and distinct populations or groups by factors such as heritable phenotypic characteristics or geographic ancestry, but also often influenced by and correlated with traits such as appearance, culture, ethnicity, and socio-economic status. In the early twentieth century the term was often used, in its biological sense, to denote genetically divergent human populations which can be marked by common phenotypic traits.

Erm except that a black person is a race.

Xenophobia != Racism

Fuck you, you insolent shit! Don't you dare call me a paddy.
That is akin to calling a black person a nigger.
I have ZERO time for people like you, and your racial prejudices and xenophobia.

Why the fuck should I give a crap about Soccer, a british sport, exported to their colonies as a means of placating their enslaved populations. We have our own Irish sports, such as gaelic football, handball and hurling, which the british tried to eliminate but failed miserably, just like they do at everything else.

Stuff a soccer ball up your arse! I'm sure it will help loosen it up a bit.

They were going to go in and have another stab at the UK, but they got distracted by a bunch of "up for the craic" leprechauns who got them all drunk on potato whisky.

Seriously, if they hadn't used all their potatoes to make alcohol, they wouldn't have had a famine. This is why the UK needed to come and hold their hand.

Read my post again. We did not submit. We gained the independence of 26 of our 32 total counties from britain in 1921, and fought for 80 years afterwards to claim back the other 6, despite having virtually no hope of success up against the might of the british army. We suffered the consequences of a bitter civil war that caused fathers, mothers brothers and sisters of the same families to turn on each other. You have absolutely no clue what it was like living through this period. I lost several relatives and friends in the conflict, so don't preach to me about submission.

I guess we were mature enough to realize that war does not solve everything, and that it is better to cooperate with each other than to tear both of our societies apart.

The Irish Republican Army (IRA - an armed dissident organization) and Sinn Fein (a nationalist political party - translates as "ourselves alone" - who were the political front-end of the IRA) tried to achieve this by bombing and killing loyalists in northern ireland and it resulted in a bitter civil war on both sides of the border that lasted for almost 80 years after the free-state gained it's independence.

The british had the might of their army and special forces, where as the IRA only had their guerrilla tactics and the fear this engendered in people. We lived in a constant state of terror and paranoia (think an 80 year long post 9-11 period, but with people actually getting killed on a daily basis) which has only recently calmed down. And you suggest we should start it all up again by invading NI and thusly declaring war on Britain? We have no significant military to speak of, no tanks, aircraft or naval equipment, and our police force are all unarmed (the Garda Síochána - guardians of the peace).

The reason there is no appetite in Ireland to claim back the rest of our country is because we have learned from decades of civil war that it is not worth the anguish or religious and ethnic prejudice that it inherently causes. What do you suggest we do about the thousands and thousands of Ulster Loyalists (and indeed some Irish people for that matter) who do not want Northern Ireland to be part of the Free State?

Most Irish people have accepted the fact that Northern Ireland is still under the control of the crown but operated on the basis of a two-state solution, where Westminster have devolved most of it's power to the parliament in northern ireland, where loyalists and nationalists alike now cooperate together on a shared platform. We are not necessarily happy about it, but it is surely better than the alternative.

Northern Ireland is still part of the UK, yes. Not the entirety of the "north" of ireland however, only the 6 counties that were agreed as part of the Anglo-Irish Treaty signed by Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith in 1921. Unfortunately they failed to realize that this gave the british exactly what they wanted, a small base in the country so they could pursue their colonial "divide and conquer" strategies. Despite winning our independence, the division this caused in our society nearly tore the country apart in the decades following. We are only now starting to emerge from the violent killings and bombings of the "Troubles" - a disgusting euphemism the british were so fond of using to describe the civil war they had caused.

Ireland though, is NOT part of the UK. Or more correctly, the 26 counties of the Irish Free State, are not part of the UK.


You are right, we absolutely long for the good old days of the Potato Famine where the british robbed us of our foodstuffs and left our population of 8 million to starve, resulting in the death of over 1 million people and the emigration of many more. Weren't they so kind and generous?

And we just hate not having our land and assets confiscated from us by the English crown anymore, and miss the colonisation of our land with settlers from England and the Scottish Lowlands who persecuted my people for over 800 years, treating us as second class citizens in our own country, attempting to erase our entire culture, language and traditions from the history books.

We hark back with teary-eyed fondness to the time when Oliver Cromwell conquered our land causing 20,000 battlefield casualties, 200,000 civilian casualties, and the deportation of 50,000 of my countrymen as indentured laborers (slaves), and introducing the penal laws.

Yep, we are so jealous that we are no longer in the UK.

Clear won the Irish "Undergraduate Awards Competition" in the category of computer science which recognizes the top undergraduate theses in each of 20 different academic disciplines (one of which is "midwifery" by the way).


Here is a link to a copy of Clear's 2009 paper on integrating peer-to-peer networks and wireless sensor networks: https://www.cs.tcd.ie/publications/tech-reports/reports.09/TCD-CS-2009-29.pdf

Yup, that is correct. Ireland are certainly not part of the UK, despite the fact that they wish they were. That's why they spend so much time and effort trying to blow the UK up - jealousy....

Goat, that would truly get my goat if this is true:

There's been a lot of posts and threads deleted in the last few days. Is somebody cleaning house. For an example, search Michael Clear, and you'll only find this thread, although there were 2-3 threads related to him at the beginning of the month.