American tech blogger Andy Baio shared a blog on April 5 on his Waxy page, revealing that Has Identified the Secret Presence of the Bitcoin Whitepaper written by the pen name Satoshi Nakamoto, on every copy of Apple’s MacOS since 2018.
This means that anyone who has bought a computer Mac in the last five years he has had access to Satoshi Nakamoto’s original vision for Bitcoin without even realizing it.
By including the document in your operating system, Manzana It has made it easier for millions of users to access and learn about the origins of this cryptocurrency – if they have managed to discover it.
While explaining the incident, Baio claimed that this discovery was unintentionalbut it happened accidentally while you were trying to fix your printer.
What does it mean that the Bitcoin whitepaper is on Mac computers?
Satoshi Nakamoto’s whitepaper on Bitcoin is the base of the first cryptocurrency decentralized world.
First published in 2008, the document outlined the blueprint for a digital currency that could operate without centralized control or intermediary institutions, and has become the mantra for all cryptocurrency enthusiasts ever since.
“Of all the documents in the world, why was the Bitcoin whitepaper chosen? Is there a secret Bitcoin maxi working at Apple? The file name is ‘simpledoc.pdf’ and it’s only 184KB. Maybe it was just a Convenient and lightweight multi-page PDF for testing purposes, which was never intended to be viewed by end users”Explain.
This blogger, looking for a reason, pointed out that the inclusion of the whitepaper on Apple devices probably due to the fact that it is a key document in the history of cryptography and computing and it has become a cultural document in the world of cryptocurrencies.
It also indicates that this It is not the first time that Apple includes important historical documents in its software: For example, the 2019 version of macOS Catalina included the full text of the US Declaration of Independence.
You could say that it is a great easter egg by the company and now it has been the turn of Bitcoin. Who knows the rest of the documents that Apple hides on its Macs.
