Ever discover that macOS takes up an entire lot of space for storing? There’s quite a lot of code in macOS, and apparently, a few of it isn’t what you’d count on, as Andy Baio discovered earlier this week. On Baio’s weblog, Waxy.com, he wrote about his discovery of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper that’s stashed inside macOS.
The paper, titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System,” explains the Bitcoin digital money system and was initially printed in 2008. The paper has apparently shipped with each copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018. Why? No one actually is aware of. Baio theorizes that it was used as a check doc.
Baio notes that “a little bird” informed him that the paper might be eliminated in a future model of macOS. So if you wish to see it, right here’s how.
See the hidden Bitcoin whitepaper through the Terminal
Open the Terminal app (it’s in Applications > Utilities) and enter the next:
open /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf
See the hidden Bitcoin whitepaper through the Finder
Don’t wish to use the Terminal? Do the next:
- In the Finder, open the Go menu and choose Go to Folder.
- In the Go to Folder that seems enter the next: /System/Library/Image Capture/Devices
- Press the Return key. The Finder window ought to seem with a VirtualScanner app icon.
- Control-click (or proper click on) VirtualScanner and choose Show Package Contents.
- The Finder window ought to present a Contents folder. Open it.
- Open the Resources folder.
- Open (or use Quick Look) the file named simpledoc.pdf.
The gif under reveals tips on how to navigate to the whitepaper the great distance, by opening the nested folders.
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Long-held secret
While Baio and others have not too long ago found this, Joshua Dickens tweeted about it in 2020. Dickens additionally factors out that there’s a picture that resembles a Thomas Hawk picture in the identical folder because the Bitcoin whitepaper.
The VirtualScanner stuff is simply one of many hidden mysteries of macOS. Now if solely we will determine the mysteries of macOS Ventura 13.3…
