Blogger Andy Baio claims to have accidentally discovered a copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin white paper on his Apple Mac computer.
“While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto apparently shipped with every copy of macOS starting with Mojave in 2018,” Baio wrote in a post on the blog of April 5th.
He said he asked more than a dozen of his friends and fellow Mac users for confirmation, and the document was there for every one of them, the file called “simpledoc.pdf.”
To find it, according to Baio's instructions, users can open the terminal and type the following command:
open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
For those using macOS 10.14 or later, the document should open immediately in Preview as a PDF file.
The now famous white paper, titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” was published in October 2008 by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. In it, the author lays out his thesis on the underlying mechanisms that power what is now the world's largest cryptocurrency by market value. The abstract of the paper reads:
“A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one person to another without going through a financial institution.”
Baio couldn't understand why, of all the documents, the original bitcoin manifesto was chosen to be included in Apple's operating system.
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