Apple hides Bitcoin white paper in macOS
Apple is hiding the Bitcoin whitepaper in macOS, a tech blogger recently noted. The explanation of the oldest cryptocurrency has been included in every desktop operating system of the US company for half a decade. Why this is so remains unclear, but theories exist.
Apple hides Bitcoin white paper in macOS
Tech blogger Andy Baio tried to fix a problem with his printer yesterday. According to his own statement, he came across the Bitcoin Whitepaper , although he had never placed it there himself. Baio uses Apple’s MacOS desktop operating system and finds Satoshi Nakamoto’s first cryptocurrency statement published on October 31, 2008 in his computer’s system files.
After more detailed tests, it is noticeable that the PDF has been supplied with every MacOS since 2018 and has therefore gone unnoticed for half a decade.
The file is included with every version of macOS from Mojave (10.14.0) to the current version.
Write Baio . Of course, anyone who has access to a computer with MacOS can personally find out that Baio is not engaged in deception. The blogger provides the instructions for this directly.
If you’re on a Mac, open a terminal and enter the following command:
open /System/Library/Image\Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
If you are running macOS 10.14 or later, the Bitcoin PDF should open in Preview immediately.
It is important to keep the space before capture . Baio also notes that within the Image Capture program is a device called Virtual Scanner II , which uses the white paper as a sample document.
Why does Mac include the Bitcoin Whitepaper?
Many users are currently wondering why their Mac includes the Bitcoin Whitepaper by default. There is no certain answer to this question. Of course, the guide does not fulfill a real function in the system.
Instead, it can be assumed that this is more of a joke or a political issue. According to current information, a developer from Apple is responsible for the content, who is apparently himself a Bitcoiner or crypto enthusiast.
To subliminally spread the message about the first cryptocurrency, he one day inserts the Bitcoin whitepaper into MacOS.
However, Baio is not the very first person to notice this content. Internally, another Apple developer noticed the content, reported it as disruptive, and asked an appropriate employee to remove the whitepaper.
However, the person responsible is the same person who hid the whitepaper in the first place. It is therefore not surprising that the task has remained unfulfilled to this day. The white paper is still included in Apple’s operating system.
Apple itself has not yet commented on the discovery.
