Apple Has Included Bitcoin Whitepaper in Every Version of macOS Since 2018

[ThunderSkunk]

Of all the issues in Mac OS that persist unresolved from year to year, spending one second pondering all the myriad causes and ramifications of some engineer grabbing this pdf (vs any other equally irrelevant pdf) and inserting it as their sample document is one second too long.

 

[TwoBytes]

A tribute to Satoshi who worked on MacOS or was a Mac user?

 

[surfzen21]

Source?

Their source is interpreting the cheeto dust that has fallen on their shirt. It's a gamers version of reading the tea leaves.

 

[AgentElliot007]

Remains a mystery! Didn’t Tim Cook showed interest in Bitcoin not too long ago?

Tim Cook Reveals He Owns Cryptocurrency and Has Been 'Interested in It For a While'

Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly for the first time today revealed that he has personally invested in cryptocurrency and that he's been interested in...

www.macrumors.com

Said a lot then about Tim Cook’s lack of a BS detector; says even more now in the wake of the clearly exposed fraud and overall degenerate nature of the entire crypto “industry.” No one doing real research and paying attention over the years gave this garbage “grifting as a service” tech credence, but Tim Cook wanted to sound cool in the mania of 2021 I guess. Embarrassing.

 

[il_teo77]

It used to be: "Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. (...)" now it's bitcoin paper. Not a great evolution imho.

 

[willzyx]

People need to relax. It's a harmless pdf that almost nobody knew about until today. Like it or not, bitcoin and blockchain in general has new tech behind it and will most likely stay in history books.

to crypto bros: this isn't an admission by Apple that bitcoin is the future.
to anti-crypto bros: chill out. Go get some fresh air.

 

[antibolo]

"and no-one seems to know why."

I mean even the article itself later explains it is likely a sample document for an internal application.

MacRumors writing has hit a new low. Clickbait at its finest.

 

[multipasser]

Nakamoto was Steve afterall ?

 

[T Coma]

Because “Lorem Ipsum” for sample filler text is just so uncool.

OK BOOMER lol rofl lmao

 

[Nabby]

Source?

He said "a forum", what other citations would you possibly need???

 

[NCPine]

Someone committed some garbage to their git repository and never cleaned it up.

 

[flexwithmarius]

I love it when in life someone makes a quick decision over a simple task that did no harm, and then it becomes a societal point of interest consuming a huge focus by multiple individuals exerting multitudes more of brain power than ever was given in the initial decision that did no harm.

And this is the key to why people are unhappy, broke or both. Too busy worrying about anything and anyone but themselves.

And no, I’m not implying bitcoin is the answer.

 

[sw1tcher]

Bitcoin. Pfft!


Dogecoin 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
💎👐

 

[modemthug]

Most likely it’s just a very royalty-free non-copyright-able example document

Think bitcoin logo, etc. are creative commons or otherwise very permissively licensed

 

[xserret]

Aha.... I love to be named explicitly inside each one of your Macs guys !!!
(I know this will be a very-hard-to-believe one, I'm actually "X.S.Avila" of reference [2])

 

[jsalda]

Love this! I miss the days when software contained Easter Eggs left by the "programmers." Even though computing was a business, it was fun and programmers were rebels. Nowadays, it is solely focused on profit and "developers" are just tools used by the corporations.

 

[txscott]

Apple includes a great deal of open source software in MacOS, some developed by Apple and some. like CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), hunspell, OpenSSH, cron, zsh and a bunch more written by the larger *nix community. The image capture program is likely the Apple version of an open source program. This file likely originates at the original open source developer and was either ignored or missed by apple.

 

[Mr. Dee]

macOS developer probably working late at night moonlighting as a crypto miner and actually compiled this in the build.

 

[t0rqx]

This whitepaper is added as a support document explaining what Bitcoin is. MacOS might have a built-in crypto miner installed in the system that will be activated if economy is going to slump down the Mac sales, coincidentally what happend the beginning of this year. To keep revenue going...

A user will not notice performance issues since the power of M-chips is so powerful and the new Advanced Data Protection security option introduced is to ensure as a safety mechanism for the mined crypto which will be enabled by default within 5 years.

Because Macs are in the minority with M-chips it will be tested on this user base slowly deployed to iPhones when they will be equipped with M-Chips with the introduction of iPhone 20.

I made a post few months ago about needing to pay for the iPhone by usage, this is the result for Mac.

Also as an alternative for subscription based hardware in the future.

 

[GMShadow]

Love this! I miss the days when software contained Easter Eggs left by the "programmers." Even though computing was a business, it was fun and programmers were rebels. Nowadays, it is solely focused on profit and "developers" are just tools used by the corporations.

And this thread is sadly a great example of why we can't have fun things anymore.

 

[Apple2501]

But where do the bits of coins come out of? I put MacBook on the internet binged apple bitcoin but still nothing. What’s going on guys?

 

[IconDRT]

Coincidence or just for fun you say? The file is 189kb! It’s right in front of our eyes, mocking us!

1+8+9 = 18

18/3 = 6

6+6+6 = 18

The “engineer” who, for unknown but nefarious reasons, left this little “Easter Egg” in macOS starting with 10.14 (1+0+1+4 = 6!!!) was a Satanic Mason or Lizard Person or both. Maths don’t lie!

 

[centauratlas]

Coincidence or just for fun you say? The file is 189kb! It’s right in front of our eyes, mocking us!

1+8+9 = 18

18/3 = 6

6+6+6 = 18

The “engineer” who, for unknown but nefarious reasons, left this little “Easter Egg” in macOS starting with 10.14 (1+0+1+4 = 6!!!) was a Satanic Mason or Lizard Person or both. Maths don’t lie!

Are you channeling the spirit of Michael Drosnin? 😂😂🤣

 

[jooish]

Nice.

True. It’s the most energy hungry and inefficient pyramid scheme out of 25,000 of these things and makes owners lose their minds.

Legacy finance uses way more energy.

So do Christmas lights... and clothes dryers... and other things that are far less important than financial freedom.

If you don't think all the craziness that's going on in the world is reason enough to hedge against fiat currencies then stay out of it... but if you think there's a chance your government will fail you and "your" money is at risk, then consider Bitcoin.

21m max supply; no out of control printing/inflation.

Disinflationary; every 4 years, the issuance gets cut in half... commonly referred to as the halvening.

More divisible than any fiat currency; to 8 decimal places.

Open; anyone can access it.

Borderless; it's international.

Neutral; it doesn't care who the sender / receiver is.

Public; transparent and fully auditable.

Decentralized; mining participants are global and cannot make changes to the network without consensus.

Permissionless; send a transaction to anyone, anywhere at any time.

Censorship resistant; transactions cannot be reversed.


Everyone's welcome regardless of their politics, age, gender, religion or region. If you think there's no value in that and it's all just a pyramid scheme then I think you're crazy.

 

[grjj]

21m max supply; no out of control printing/inflation.

More divisible than any fiat currency; to 8 decimal places.

Those two points mean there are 210,000,000,000,000 spendable "units".
If there's a limit to spendable units, and you reduce the units over time then the value of each unit then the value increases (inflates) over time by design.