There were a ton of news outlets reporting about how on every mac there is a secret copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Any Mac computer that has been updated to use a version of the MacOS operating system since 2018 is hiding a copy. The Bitcoin Whitepaper was originally written in 2008, by a person or group of people calling themselves Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi real identity has never been found. The whitepaper documents details about how the cryptocurrency works and explains in detail the thinking behind why it was created in the first place. However, it does mot reveal the identity of Satoshi so countless hours have gone into investigating who is really behind the creation of the most famous cryptocurrency.
The secret document was found by Andy Baio. He said the file has been inside the software for five years. Anyone can open it, simply by looking inside the files for a device called “Virtual Scanner II”. The document appears to have been added as a sample file for that utility, and it may just have been a useful, short document to use as an example.
My guess is some engineer working on MacOS added it, but it’s kind of fun to speculate around the idea that Steve Jobs created Bitcoin. Apple has not given any information about how the file came to be added to MacOS. So my question is do you think Jobs is Satoshi?
I think he was to egotistical to not have said something when he was alive. I also think that ego and narcissistic nature would not be conducive to creating something so decentralized but I guess we won’t know because we can’t ask him.
