Three weeks after technology blogger Andy Baio spoke about his discovery of Bitcoin (BTC) whitepaper on modern Apple MacOS devices, the document has now been pulled out.
According to report of the Apple-focused news site 9to5Mac, the tech behemoth has eliminated the Virtual Scanner II from the latest MacOS Ventura 13.4 beta. This ultimately means that the Satoshi Nakamoto whitepaper on the Apple Mac device has been destroyed.
9to5Mac added a comment “This pretty much confirms our original theory that both the Bitcoin white paper and the internal tool were never meant to be found by regular users.”
The discovery of Satoshi’s whitepaper in Apple Mac products sparked several concerns from netizens.
While some argued that it was probably an expensive prank played by Apple engineers, others held a more audacious opinion which suggested that Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder is the founder of BTC – Satoshi Nakamoto. Markedly, the removal of the document may infer that Apple has no interest in promoting the rumours.
BTC Whitepaper Discovered by Apple Mac Users
Based on Baio’s discovery, this Bitcoin whitepaper has been hiding in the operating system of Apple Mac products for about half a decade. From Mojave to Ventura models, this document lay underneath a wireless printer tagged ‘Virtual Scanner II’. He, however, stumbled upon it when he was trying to fix his printer. As per his explanation, the default media type for the scanner was ‘photo’. When he changed it to ‘document’, the BTC whitepaper was printed.
“Of all the documents in the world, why was the Bitcoin whitepaper chosen? Is there a secret Bitcoin maxi working at Apple?” Baio wondered. “Maybe it was just a convenient, lightweight multipage PDF for testing purposes, never meant to be seen by end-users.”
It was not until then that he remembered and highlighted a Twitter post from three years ago by designer Joshua Dickens. Dickens had also found a copy of the BTC whitepaper on his Apple computer. He tried to make it easier for other Apple Mac users to find the document by leaving a description for them.
Weirdly, there's also a PDF of the original Bitcoin white paper: pic.twitter.com/JjPnI4fyzc
— Josh D (@schwa23) November 28, 2020
