Apple Removes Bitcoin White Paper from Latest macOS Beta

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Apple has removed the Bitcoin White Paper from the latest beta version of the MacOS operating system without any statements or warnings.This has been noticed by some users.

Apple-dedicated site 9to5Mac reported that the company has removed a test app called Virtual Scanner II from the latest beta of MacOS Ventura 13.4, followed by a whitepaperabout Bitcoin has disappeared.

"This pretty much supports our original theory that the official documentBitcoin, as well as the internal Virtual Scanner II tool, were never intended to be found by ordinary users," concludes9to5Mac's conclusion.

Blogger Andy Baio reported back in early April that the file was hiddenHe said he was "just trying to fix my printer" and scan a documentwith the help of a wireless scanner, when suddenly a device called the Virtual Scanner II, which he had never seen before, appeared on the network.

Bayo said that "there's almost nothing on the internet about it" and shared a thread of Twitter posts by designer Joshua Dickens fromDickens also found a whitepaper that Baio used to locate the file.Since then, other theories have emerged, such as that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is Satoshi Nakamoto.

Meanwhile, an Australian programmer andentrepreneur Craig Wright, who is known to the crypto community as the “self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto,” said that Apple is violating his copyright on the main document of the first cryptocurrency. Wright's response was met with several sarcastic tweets calling for him to sue the American corporation.