It is unknown what purpose Nakamoto’s white paper serves in these products.
Original Bitcoin A whitepaper hidden in Apple’s system files has just been discovered. Apparently, the whitepaper can be seen in every Apple machine running macOS Catalina or newer versions of the operating system. This is according to a recent discovery that was made by a technologist identified only as Andy Baio.
Location of bitcoin whitepaper revealed on Apple macOS
He revealed what he found on Wednesday blog postBao claims that the file – codenamed “simpledoc.pdf” – lays out Satoshi Nakamoto’s entire vision for decentralized finance. He also revealed via post that a PDF copy of the bitcoin whitepaper went with every copy of macOS shipped since Mojave in 2018.
By his own account, he was unprepared to find the bitcoin whitepaper. Rather, he stumbled upon the discovery while trying to fix his printer. Part of his statement read:
“I was trying to scan a document with my wireless printer/scanner, but after recently upgrading macOS the device was not showing up in Image Capture. Just this “Virtual Scanner II” device that I’ve never seen (or seen?)
As it turns out, Virtual Scanner II is Nakamoto’s whitepaper. And to realize this Bao had to change the media type from “Photo” to “Document”.
Baio confirmed that the file can be found on “every version of macOS from Mojave (10.14.0) to the latest version (Ventura)”. However, it is unknown what purpose Nakamoto’s whitepaper serves in these products. For what it’s worth, though, Baio and many others believe the file may not be intended for end users to view. That is, it could have been just for testing purposes.
While Apple has yet to respond to the new reports, it should be noted that the firm has a budding relationship with the crypto and blockchain industry. By the end of 2022, the tech giant will add support for NFT trading through its App Store. At the time, Apple said the move was to allow app developers to place NFTs in-app and new apps to install the token within them. But there was a condition attached to the arrangement of the firm which would see to it that profit would also be ensured. Apple takes a 30% cut From app developers who have been able to earn over $1 million from its store. But takes 15% from developers with less revenue.
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