The world’s largest technology company has quietly retired Bitcoin BTC ($28,827) white paper of the latest beta version of its operating system upgrade.
On April 25, the Apple-focused media site 9to5Mac reported that the Big Tech Company has removed a scanning tool called Virtual Scanner II from the latest macOS Ventura 13.4 beta, and later the Bitcoin white paper is out. As Cointelegraph reported, an April 5 blog post by tech analyst Andy Baio revealed that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper has been bundled with every version of macOS for the past five years.
The document is found in Virtual Scanner II on macOS. No one knows why he was there, but it is suspected to be “just a prank among Apple engineers”, the report added.
Other conspiracy theories have emerged, such as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs being Satoshi Nakamoto, Apple Insider reported. However, Apple clearly did not see the fun side and now removed the document from the new version of the Mac system.
The white paper is in a folder in the Photos app along with some other seemingly random files like PDFs and images. 9to5Mac says:
“This pretty much supports our initial hypothesis that it was never intended to find Bitcoin whitepapers and internal tools by regular users.”
In a related development, a California court ruled that the tech giant violated state competition laws by preventing developers from using other in-app payment methods. Like Apple, the company tried to force NFT producers and developers to use its own payment system, where they would be charged a 30% commission.
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