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An Apple developer left one of the strangest Easter eggs hidden in the macOS, offering a surprising and baffling connection between the Cupertino tech companys mainline operating system to everybodys (least) favorite cryptographic digital currency.

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On his Waxy.org blog, tech dev Andy Baio reported Thursday he made a surprise discovery, finding the original bitcoin whitepaper written by the presumed pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto had been shoved inside every single copy of macOS since 2018. The document, titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, was first published in 2008 and described how to set up access to and mine the blockchain-based cryptocurrency. Just a year later, the person under the Nakamoto name launched the first version of the bitcoin network.

Any device running macOS Mojave 10.18 or later can access the document. Users who want to access the document only need to open a macOS terminal and enter:

open /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf

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Gizmodo confirmed the document popped up on preview on a MacBook Air running macOS 12.5.1 as well as more modern versions of the OS. The document is stuffed deep in the operating systems resources, requiring the image capture Virtual Scanner II Device. MacRumors suggested it could be a sample document for the system that could power Macs feature letting users transfer photos from iPhone or iPads to Macs, though iCloud is a much easier option for data transfer.

The entire thing is a greater mystery, as back in 2020 Joshua Dickens, a former product designer at Apple, tweeted about the whitepaper. He also found a strange photo in the resources folder, which California-based photographer Thomas Hawk claimed was a sign from Treasure Island in San Francisco he took back in 2018.

Gizmodo reached out to Apple for comment, but we did not immediately hear back. Users on Apples own forums were pointing out the irregularities of the Virtual Scanner II Device back in 2021, though no Apple representative ever commented on it.

Baio further claimed based on an anonymous source that somebody at Apple had filed the document as an issue close to a year ago, but that the issue was assigned to the same engineer who originally installed the document into the OS. As is plain by the white papers continuing existence, nothings really changed in that time.

It certainly makes sense that there could be a developer at Apple who used the bitcoin white paper as a test for one of macOS backend scanning systems, and then just left it in the code where nobody was looking for it. Still, the political environment surrounding cryptocurrencies is not exactly stable, especially as crypto hacks, robberies, and other crimes have expanded even as bitcoin prices dropped precipitously last year compared to 2021 highs.

Theres still quite a lot of speculation about if Nakamoto was a real person or, more likely, a pseudonym. Past investigations by Gizmodo and others have pointed to Australian academic and entrepreneur Craig Wright as involved in bitcoins creation. Still, some remain highly skeptical that he was behind it all, and instead claim other early bitcoin developers as the real minds behind cryptos nascent beginnings. And making such proclamations havent helped Wrights wallet either, as hes had to pay $100 million in compensatory damages to the family of Dave Kleiman, one of bitcoins supposed original founders. Kleimans brother claimed Wright cheated the developer out of intellectual property rights for bitcoin.

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A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto, a presumed pseudonym used by the inventor of Bitcoin, is displayed in Graphisoft Park on September 22, 2021 in Budapest, Hungary. Janos Kummer / Stringer, Getty Images

Satoshi Nakamoto is the name of the individual or group credited with inventing bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency. Their legend is shrouded in mystery.

The inventor's identity has never been confirmed, though April 5 marked their 48th birthday, according to information on a profile with The P2P Foundation.

This week, conspiracy theories connected the figure to the late Steve Jobs, the visionary Apple cofounder, following the revelation that Apple has shipped out Mac computers since 2018 with a copy of the original bitcoin white paper.

"While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto'sBitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018," technologist Andy Baio wrote in an April 5 blog post.

Nakamoto's paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," was published in October 2008. The abstract reads:

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

Since then, bitcoin has become the largest cryptocurrency, with a market cap of about $540 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data on Friday.

Someone is behind the name, given that they invented bitcoin's complex source code, authored a white paper, and interacted with users on web forums.

Nakamoto's profile on The P2P Foundation lists their location as Japan. In their posts, however, Nakamoto has used British English spellings and expressions, leading some to assume they are in fact not Japanese, as the inventor claimed. Additionally, some have pointed to the time stamps on Nakamoto's comments as reason to believe they were not located in Japan.

In 2011, a comment from that account stated that they had "moved onto other things."

The name is also associated with a number of crypto wallets, presumably owned by Nakamoto. Some estimate that those wallets hold more than 1.1 million bitcoin tokens. When bitcoin peaked in November 2021 at $68,000, those holdings would have been worth about $73 billion, placing Nakamoto among the 15 riches people in the world at the time.

Some have speculated that the chances Nakamoto is one person are low, given the complexity of bitcoin's source code.

"Either there's a team of people who worked on this or this guy is a genius," Dan Kaminsky, a leading internet-security researcher, told The New Yorker in 2011.

In his white paper, Nakamoto cited the work of Stuart Haber, a computer scientist credited with helping invent blockchain technology. Haber has echoed Kaminsky's sentiment that the programmer behind bitcoin would have had a "keen intelligence."

In 2013, Nick Szabo, a computer scientist who published research in 1998 on "bit gold," a precursor to bitcoin, drew attention for potentially being Nakamoto. He has denied it, and financial writer Dominic Frisby has said no proof exists connecting the two figures.

"The most convincing evidence pointed to a reclusive American man of Hungarian descent named Nick Szabo," journalist Nathaniel Popper wrote in The New York Times in 2015.

A Newsweek article in 2014 said that Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, was the elusive inventor of bitcoin. According to the article, he was trained as a physicist and worked on classified defense projects, but he, too, denied the claims.

After the article published, Nakamoto's online account revived itself after a five-year hiatus, stating: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."

Then, in December 2015, Wired posited that Australian researcher Craig Steven Wright "either invented bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did."

The same day, Gizmodo published a story that said Wright, as well as computer scientist Dave Kleiman, together were involved in the invention of bitcoin.

Then, in May 2016, Wright announced in a blog post that he did create bitcoin, though he was met with prominent crypto figures who said it was false.

The list of other potential candidates, apart from Apple's Jobs, includes the government, various other computer scientists, and even Elon Musk, who denied he was Nakamoto in a 2017 tweet.

On Friday, bitcoin hovered around $27,937. It has surged 68% in 2023.

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Popular crypto blogger Lark Davis assumes that, in theory, Steve Jobs may have been Bitcoin inventor, but his Twitter poll shows something else

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Crypto YouTuber and trader Lark Davis has posted a tweet, in which he reminded followers of the recent news of the Bitcoin whitepaper spotted within the operational system of Mac computers.

Davis, who is known on Twitter as @TheCryptoLark, admitted that this fact is indeed fueling speculation that the legendary Steve Jobs was even more legendary for the crypto community than Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin in 2009.

The blogger also stated that the periods when Satoshi went off the grid and Steve Jobs differ by just one year, with these events happening in 2010 and 2011. With this tweet, he started a poll, offering his audience the choice between three answers: "yes" Steve Jobs was Satoshi, "no" he was not and "it does not matter."

A total of 37.7% of the respondents chose "no." Slightly less but close to that, 35.4%, believe that it does not matter whether it was Jobs or anybody else. Apparently, the fact of Bitcoin's existence is more important to them than who was its real inventor.

The rest 26.9% stated they believe the new theory of Satoshi's identity after the recent news of Macs and the Bitcoin whitepaper. Overall, 8,537 respondents have thus far taken part in the survey.

The crypto community reacted mostly humorously to these speculations about Steve Jobs, the Apple founder, possibly being Satoshi and creating the digital currency that has begun to transform the payments industry. Many, however, said that it was likely not Jobs but the other Apple founder, Steve Wozniak, who is known to be a Bitcoin supporter.

Head of Binance CZ made a joking comment under a tweet about this news, suggesting that now is the time to search for the Bitcoin whitepaper in the code of Windows and Linux, perhaps implying that Steve Jobs, Wozniak and Bill Gates created Bitcoin together in a shabby garage somewhere.

David Gokhshtein, the founder of Gokhshtein Media, tweeted that he thinks that Jobs could be the actual creator of Bitcoin because "it makes sense." However, he added that he is still doing research, but deep in his heart, he still believes that Satoshi was Hal Finney, an American IT engineer, who was the first to receive a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto. Sadly, he passed away three years after Jobs, in 2014, from complications caused by Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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Satoshi Nakamoto is the name of the individual or group credited with inventing bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency. Their legend is shrouded in mystery.

The inventor's identity has never been confirmed, though April 5 marked their 48th birthday, according to information on a profile with The P2P Foundation.

This week, conspiracy theories connected the figure to the late Steve Jobs, the visionary Apple cofounder, following the revelation that Apple has shipped out Mac computers since 2018 with a copy of the original bitcoin white paper.

"While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018," technologist Andy Baio wrote in an April 5 blog post.

Nakamoto's paper, "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," was published in October 2008. The abstract reads:

"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."

Since then, bitcoin has become the largest cryptocurrency, with a market cap of about $540 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data on Friday.

Someone is behind the name, given that they invented bitcoin's complex source code, authored a white paper, and interacted with users on web forums.

Nakamoto's profile on The P2P Foundation lists their location as Japan. In their posts, however, Nakamoto has used British English spellings and expressions, leading some to assume they are in fact not Japanese, as the inventor claimed. Additionally, some have pointed to the time stamps on Nakamoto's comments as reason to believe they were not located in Japan.

In 2011, a comment from that account stated that they had "moved onto other things."

The name is also associated with a number of crypto wallets, presumably owned by Nakamoto. Some estimate that those wallets hold more than 1.1 million bitcoin tokens. When bitcoin peaked in November 2021 at $68,000, those holdings would have been worth about $73 billion, placing Nakamoto among the 15 riches people in the world at the time.

Some have speculated that the chances Nakamoto is one person are low, given the complexity of bitcoin's source code.

"Either there's a team of people who worked on this or this guy is a genius," Dan Kaminsky, a leading internet-security researcher, told The New Yorker in 2011.

In his white paper, Nakamoto cited the work of Stuart Haber, a computer scientist credited with helping invent blockchain technology. Haber has echoed Kaminsky's sentiment that the programmer behind bitcoin would have had a "keen intelligence."

In 2013, Nick Szabo, a computer scientist who published research in 1998 on "bit gold," a precursor to bitcoin, drew attention for potentially being Nakamoto. He has denied it, and financial writer Dominic Frisby has said no proof exists connecting the two figures.

"The most convincing evidence pointed to a reclusive American man of Hungarian descent named Nick Szabo," journalist Nathaniel Popper wrote in The New York Times in 2015.

A Newsweek article in 2014 said that Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, was the elusive inventor of bitcoin. According to the article, he was trained as a physicist and worked on classified defense projects, but he, too, denied the claims.

After the article published, Nakamoto's online account revived itself after a five-year hiatus, stating: "I am not Dorian Nakamoto."

Then, in December 2015, Wired posited that Australian researcher Craig Steven Wright "either invented bitcoin or is a brilliant hoaxer who very badly wants us to believe he did."

The same day, Gizmodo published a story that said Wright, as well as computer scientist Dave Kleiman, together were involved in the invention of bitcoin.

Then, in May 2016, Wright announced in a blog post that he did create bitcoin, though he was met with prominent crypto figures who said it was false.

The list of other potential candidates, apart from Apple's Jobs, includes the government, various other computer scientists, and even Elon Musk, who denied he was Nakamoto in a 2017 tweet.

On Friday, bitcoin hovered around $27,937. It has surged 68% in 2023.

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Binance US crypto trivia on Shiba Inu (SHIB) creator draws intriguing answers

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A crypto trivia published on Twitter byBinance.USto test the knowledge of the community about the SHIB creator has drawn interesting answers.

Binance U.S. set out by giving a brief introduction about SHIB, which it says was created to be a community-driven project, and then proceeded to ask who the creator of SHIB was.

"The creators of SHIB set out to create a community-driven project that would focus on creating a decentralized ecosystem for trading and other financial activities," Binance.US wrote.

It then asked, "This Ethereum-based counterpart to Dogecoin's Scrypt-based algorithm was created by whom?"

A total of 55.3% of respondents went for the option Ryoshi. Interestingly, 19.6% and 19.5% of the respondents went for the options of Satoshi Nakamoto (the Bitcoin pseudonymous creator) and Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum creator), respectively.

A total of 5.6% of respondents answered that SHIB was created by Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson.

Similar to Satoshi Nakamoto, Shiba Inu's creator Ryoshi's identity has remained a mystery since the project's inception in August 2020. And just like the Bitcoin creator, Ryoshi exited social media in May 2022.

While many seek to unravel the identity of the SHIB creatorRyoshi, Shiba Inu lead Shytoshi Kusama hinted at what is most important.

"What's important is the concept of decentralization, myself and millions of others believe can change the world. I am Ryoshi, and so are you," Kusama stated.

The phrase "We are all Ryoshi" has found its place in the SHIB community, meaning that everyone has a stake in the project and a responsibility to take it forward.

At the time of writing, SHIB was marginally up in the last 24 hours at $0.00001096. In the last 24 hours, a meager 20,000 SHIB has been burned in a single transaction.

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