Bitcoin Whitepaper Removed From Latest MacOS Beta by Apple

• Bitcoin white paper has been included with every copy of MacOS for the last five years.
• Virtual Scanner II on macOS was where the file was located.

The white paper for Bitcoin was mysteriously deleted from the beta version of the newest operating system by the world’s leading IT business.

The Bitcoin white paper has apparently vanished from the current beta version of MacOS Ventura 13.4, as reported by an Apple-centric news site on April 25. The program in question, Virtual Scanner II, was used to test scanner software by the Big Tech business.

A PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper has been included with every copy of MacOS for the last five years, as was previously reported in a blog post by technologist Andy Baio on April 5.

Steve Jobs Really Satoshi Nakamoto?

Virtual Scanner II on macOS was where the file was located. Although its presence remained unexplained, it was likely “just a joke among Apple engineers,” the report said. Apple Insider noted that other, crazier conspiracy theories have surfaced, such as the idea that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is really Satoshi Nakamoto. But there is no base for these emerging ideas so far.

Apple, however, does not share the same sense of humor and has now deleted the surprising file from the most recent release of Mac OS. Within the Image Capture program, amongst other apparently unrelated items like PDFs and photographs, was the white paper.

On the other hand, the internet giant was found guilty of violating California’s antitrust rules for blocking third-party in-app payment providers. Apple being Apple, the company attempted to compel NFT creators and developers onto its own payments mechanism, where a 30% fee would be paid.