- The discovery of Bitcoin vision in MacBooks early this month stirred mixed reactions among the crypto community.
- Nobody knows why Apple quietly used the document.
Apple has removed a copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper mysteriously hidden in its MacBooks in the latest macOS Ventura 13.4 beta.
Early this month, independent blogger Andy Biao discovered a copy of the iconic whitepaper published by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto within a test scanner app. No one knows why the vision of the top cryptocurrency was kept within the MacBooks.
Apple Insider confirmed Wednesday that users operating the maCOS Ventura 13.4 beta 3 have reported that the Virtual Scanner II app and the Bitcoin whitepaper had been removed.
Speculations Around The Discovered Bitcoin Whitepaper On Apple
Following the discovery, many theories surfaced on crypto Twitter, with some saying that Apple founder Steve Jobs could be Satoshi Nakamoto, who, up to date, nobody knows his identity. Others maintain that Apple could have used the document as a test file, while others claim it was kept there as a joke by a Bitcoin maximalist working in the company.
Interestingly, the discovery prompted the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, Dr. Craig Wright, to suggest that Apple infringed his copyright. Wright claims he owns the intellectual property of Bitcoin and its underlying technology, something he has not been able to prove.
Bitcoin whitepaper is available in every macOS version from Mojave to Ventura. It can be accessed with a terminal command: open/System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/contents/resources/simpledoc.pdf.