The world’s largest tech company has quietly removed the bitcoin (BTC) white paper from the latest beta version of its operating system update..
On April 25, Apple-focused news site 9to5Mac reported that the company had removed a test scanner app called Virtual Scanner II in the latest MacOS Ventura 13.4 beta, and subsequently, the bitcoin white paper has disappeared.
As Cointelegraph reported, on April 5 A blog post by technologist Andy Baio revealed that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin white paper had shipped with every copy of MacOS for the past five years..
The document was inside Virtual Scanner II on macOS. No one knew why it was there, but it was suspected that it was “just a joke among Apple engineers.”added the report.
Other more outlandish conspiracy theories have emerged, such as that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is Satoshi Nakamotoreported Apple Insider.
Apple removes original Bitcoin whitepaper from the latest macOS Ventura beta https://t.co/YG1OlDJNZy by @filipeeposito
— 9to5Mac (@9to5mac) April 25, 2023
Apple removes original bitcoin whitepaper from latest macOS Ventura beta https://t.co/YG1OlDJNZy by @filipeesposito
However, It is clear that Apple did not see the grace and has already removed the document from the latest version of the operating system for Mac.
The white paper was in a folder inside the Image Capture app and other seemingly random files like PDFs and images.. 9to5Mac commented:
“This pretty much confirms our original theory that both the bitcoin white paper and the internal tool were never intended to be found by normal users.”
On the other hand, A California court has ruled that the tech giant violated state competition laws by preventing developers from using alternative payment methods within apps.. In true Apple style, the firm tried to force NFT creators and developers to use its own payment platform, in which they would be charged a 30% commission.
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