Apple Has Included The Original Bitcoin Whitepaper in Every Version of macOS Since 2018.
And no one seems to know why...
Satoshi Nakamoto’s original white paper laying out the thesis for the Bitcoin network is seemingly hiding within every modern version of the operating system for Apple’s Mac computers. An April 5 blog post from technologist Andy Baio revealed that a PDF of the Bitcoin white paper has “apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018.” Baio told Cointelegraph he was trying to fix his printer and scan a document when Nakamoto’s white paper first appeared. He created a prompt in Terminal that enables others to easily access the white paper.
Source: Cointelegraph.
So was Satoshi actually Steve Jobs? Probably not. But the theories are buzzing.
Mac owners try this in your terminal:
open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
While definitely strange, the presence of the bitcoin white paper on Mac computers isn't evidence of anything.
As for Jobs, he's credited as the creative force behind many of Apple's most iconic products, but he wasn't an expert programmer, said co-founder, Steve Wozniak.
The real identity of Nakamoto has never been revealed, and some believe Nakamoto was actually a group of people given the complexity of bitcoin's code. The inventor stated they started writing the code for bitcoin in 2007, and the network launched in 2009.
Some estimate that crypto wallets associated with the pseudonym hold more than 1.1 million bitcoin tokens. When the token peaked in November 2021 at about $68,000, those holdings would have been worth roughly $73 billion...
What do you think my fellow Hivers?