It can be found on almost all models manufactured since 2018.
A blogger said that he was recently fixing his printer when he discovered a big surprise on his Mac.
A PDF file of a famous Bitcoin white paper was in the system files.
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Blogger Andy Baio said it was a copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s paper and that it shipped with almost every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018.
Nakamoto is the name of the person credited with developing bitcoin, but speculation abounds as to his true identity, or if it may be more than one person.
“We have confirmed that the document exists on a Mac fully updated with Ventura 13.3, and Baio says the 184KB PDF file appears to date from 2018 Mojave (not present in 2017 High Sierra),” he wrote. Ars Technica.
Users who wish to verify the file themselves can open a Terminal and use the following command:
open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
“The file is included in a system app called VirtualScanner.app. It is almost certainly related to the Continuity Camera ‘import from iPhone’ feature which allows you to insert images or documents ‘scanned’ with your iPhone’s camera or iPad directly into a macOS app,” Ars Technica said. “That feature was originally introduced in Mojave, the same version of macOS that the Bitcoin white paper added.”
“Baio says ‘a little bird’ told him that the presence of the Bitcoin white paper was brought up as an internal problem at Apple ‘almost a year ago’ and that it was assigned to the ‘same engineer who put the PDF there in the first place’ “, according to Ars Technica.
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