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A document from the originator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto, appears to be embedded within every contemporary version of Apple's Mac operating system.
On April 5, a blog post from Andy Baio, a technologist, revealed that a PDF version of the Bitcoin white paper has been "seemingly shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018."
Baio explained that he stumbled upon the white paper when trying to repair his wireless scanner and saw a new device named "Virtual Scanner II."
The device originally displayed a photo, but once Baio changed the media type from "Photo" to "Document," Nakamoto's white paper materialized.
Baio explained in his post that there is practically no information about the embedded white paper online. To find the location of the file, he referred to a November 2020 Twitter thread from Joshua Dickens, a designer who also discovered the white paper.
After creating a prompt for others to access the white paper easily using Terminal, a command-line interface for macOS, Baio asked other friends who used Macs to confirm whether the document was also present on their devices.
Baio stated that he tested the prompt on three different Apple Macs, and the Bitcoin white paper was successfully opened each time.
What Does It Mean?
This surprising revelation from Baio might have several meanings including the fact that Apple had been bullish on Bitcoin since 2018. However, no official disclosure from Apple ever mentioned anything related to Bitcoin or any other crypto token. It is also possible that it was done by someone in the development team as an easter egg for Apple users which remains unknown for more than 4 years.
Whatever might be the case, it is for sure that someone in Apple had been a big Satoshi Nakamoto fan, and thus made Bitcoin whitepaper a default document for its Virtual Scanner II.
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