Bitcoin (BTC) white paper is one of the most well-known white papers released in the past few decades – perhaps even the best known. Perhaps Apple didn’t think the fame of the nine-page document was enough, since it was hidden in macOS.
Bitcoin white paper in Apple macOS
That writes blogger and former Kickstarter CTO Andy Baio on his blog. When he tried to get his printer working again, he opened a tool called the Terminal on macOS. Here he entered the following command:
open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
Any Mac running macOS 10.14 or later should open the Bitcoin whitepaper with this command. If you are not comfortable using such methods, you can also just follow the following path: system>Library>Image Capture>devices flyer. If you then Control+click on VirtualScanner.app and then click on Show Package Contents, you will come across a folder called Resources.
It contains a PDF file called simpledoc. In the screenshot tool, Satoshi’s white paper has been used as sample document. He encountered it when using a wireless scanner because he wanted to scan another document. Surprisingly, he had never seen the ‘Virtual Scanner’ device before.
The example file that was shown here by default is a photo, but if you go to ‘Document’ you will see the white paper. “I wasn’t looking for the Bitcoin whitepaper at all, I just wanted to fix my printer!” explained the tech Cointelegraph.
Apple has been working on Bitcoin since 2020
Baio has also checked in which versions the file can be found. It is in all versions from Mojave (10.14) up to the current version, Venture (13.3). But in High Sierra (10.13) and earlier versions, you won’t find it.
The former Kickstarter CEO was not the only one who found the file. In 2020, designer Josh Dickens also found it.
Weirdly, there’s also a PDF of the original Bitcoin white paper: pic.twitter.com/JjPnI4fyzc
— Josh D (@schwa23) November 28, 2020
Maybe they work Apple So the necessary Bitcoiners. The tool shows not only the first page, but the entire document. Last year you could read in the Bitcoin news that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak still called bitcoin pure gold.