Apple removes Bitcoin white paper from the latest beta version: report
Apple removes Bitcoin white paper from the latest beta version: report
The digital copy of Satoshi Nakamotos Bitcoin-Whitepaper was an Easter egg that was found in a test scanner app on MacOS at the beginning of this month. But Apple has now removed it from the latest beta version of its operating system.
With the removal of the test scanner app called Virtual Scanner II from the beta, the Bitcoin Whitepaper-along with all other elements with which it was bundled-has disappeared.
- According to a report, the document will no longer be available as soon as users update MacOS Ventura 13.4 Beta 3, which was provided for developers on Tuesday.
- On the other hand, users who have not updated their Mac to the latest beta version can still find the file by carrying out an command.
- In a blog post dated April 5, an American technologist Andy Baio revealed that when trying to repair his wireless printer, he had come across the Bitcoin White Paper.
- he added that the PDF copy of the white paper with MacOS Mojave, which was introduced in 2018, could have been added to the system.
- gained in importance as history, updated Baio later:
"A small bird tells me that someone has put it internally as a problem almost a year ago and was assigned to the same engineer who has put the PDF there, and has not undertaken this person since then.
- The discovery triggered several conspiracy theories, including speculation about the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.
- Then the controversial computer scientist and self-proclaimed “Bitcoin creator from Bitcoin”, Craig Wright, Apple to violate copyright laws.
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