Judging by his surname, and the fact that he studied at a university in Dublin, it's unlikely.

This was already discussed in depth on this forum, but it now seems missing along with a bunch of other threads. Odd!

Man, SORRY I thought Ireland was in the UK. Geez. I changed the text to say "UK AND IRELAND". When are you guys going to capture the rest of your island, anyway? Just kidding.

I posted this because if there were any previous posts on this important New Yorker article they have been deleted so it needs to be reposted. For example, if you search on "New Yorker" only this one post comes up. All the old posts are gone. (Hmm, now I wonder who might be deleting posts and why....)

In any case the article is pretty interesting beyond the Satoshi identity research. For example, he describes visiting a bitcoin miner in Kentucky. Worth a read.

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

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

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.

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.

Erm except that a black person is a race.

Xenophobia != Racism

Clocked it!

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

That a new record?