Bitcoin’s whitepaper is apparently hiding in Apple’s modern macOS

Satoshi Nakamoto’s archetypal whitepaper laying retired the Bitcoin (BTC) web is seemingly hiding wrong each modern mentation 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 whitepaper has “apparently shipped with each transcript of macOS since Mojave successful 2018.”

Baio told Cointelegraph that helium was “just trying to hole my printer” and scan a papers with a wireless scanner erstwhile a instrumentality called “Virtual Scanner II” appeared that he’d “never seen before.”

By default, Virtual Scanner II showed a photo, but erstwhile Baio changed the media benignant from "Photo" to "Document," Nakamoto’s whitepaper appeared.

A screenshot of the Bitcoin whitepaper appearing wrong the “Virtual Scanner II” device. Source: Waxy

“I wasn't looking for the Bitcoin paper!” Baio exclaimed. “I was conscionable trying to hole my printer!”

In his post, Baio said determination is “virtually thing astir this online,” and shared a November 2020 Twitter thread from decorator Joshua Dickens which helium utilized to find the record location.

Here's a mystery: wherefore bash I person an Image Capture instrumentality called Virtual Scanner II connected my Mac? It shows a preview of a painted motion that for immoderate crushed intimately resembles a photograph by @thomashawk connected 'clustershot'? But not precisely -- the scanned mentation looks much weathered. pic.twitter.com/jPb5kx3NyS

Baio created a punctual to usage successful Terminal, a bid enactment interface for macOS, truthful others could bring up the whitepaper easily.

“I started asking different Mac-using friends if they could corroborate it, and each of them could,” helium said.

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The punctual successfully opened the Bitcoin whitepaper connected 3 antithetic Apple Mac devices tested by Cointelegraph.

In his blog post, Baio claimed the record is recovered connected “every mentation of macOS from Mojave (10.14.0) to the existent mentation (Ventura), but isn’t successful High Sierra (10.13) oregon earlier.”

It’s chartless wherefore Nakamoto’s whitepaper is shipped with modern versions of macOS. Baio speculated successful his station that it was “just a convenient, lightweight multipage PDF for investigating purposes, ne'er meant to beryllium seen by extremity users.”

Cointelegraph contacted Apple for remark but did not instantly person a response.

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