The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS • Hacker News Board

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by colesantiago » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:22 PM UTC

I hope Apple sees this as a bug and removes this in their next major update, hopefully an Apple employee files a radar and gets this removed.

This should have never been allowed on macOS, an endorsement of a pyramid scheme, borderline ponzi scheme, incinerating the planet and evading sanctions.

I use Linux and macOS and the former would never allow this to happen ever.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

#22

Post by monero-xmr » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:22 PM UTC

The Bitcoin white paper is probably one of the top 100 impactful non-literary documents of all time. Makes sense to be used

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by zakki » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:22 PM UTC

It will be wild if Steve Jobs is Satoshi Nakamoto.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

#24

Post by cududa » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:22 PM UTC

kris-nova wrote: post #8

I would be willing to wager there is more inside that PDF than just the contents of the Bitcoin white paper. Curious if anyone has a hash sum handy

The entire directory is really weird. Looks like some sort of directory of assets for automated testing the data from scanners (like, physical document scanners) returning properly? Built in macOS md5 hash reports the PDF's hash as d56d71ecadf2137be09d8b1d35c6c042

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by reactspa » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:23 PM UTC

The answer may be a bit more mundane.

A theory: they needed an existing PDF to test PDF rendering. The Bitcoin paper was (1) handy, and (2) has a diverse variety of content in it, including images and math symbols.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by pcthrowaway » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:23 PM UTC

likecarter wrote: post #12

cududa wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does impact bitcoin in any way at all

It’s satire.

I'm not convinced it is. Poe's Law

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

#27

Post by eis » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:23 PM UTC

kris-nova wrote: post #8

I would be willing to wager there is more inside that PDF than just the contents of the Bitcoin white paper. Curious if anyone has a hash sum handy

  md5: d56d71ecadf2137be09d8b1d35c6c042
  sha1: 8de2fdb04edce612738eb51e14ecc426381f8ed8
  sha256: b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553
  size: 184292 bytes

These are from MacOS 10.15.7 The file matches the officially released whitepaper pdf.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

#28

Post by m3kw9 » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:24 PM UTC

likecarter wrote: post #12

cududa wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does impact bitcoin in any way at all

It’s satire.

It’s all satire

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by alex_sf » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:24 PM UTC

monero-xmr wrote: post #22

The Bitcoin white paper is probably one of the top 100 impactful non-literary documents of all time. Makes sense to be used

Really though? I’m confident there are 100 RFCs alone that were more impactful.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by plasticsoprano » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:25 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #21

I hope Apple sees this as a bug and removes this in their next major update, hopefully an Apple employee files a radar and gets this removed. This should have never been allowed on macOS, an endorsement of a pyramid scheme, borderline ponzi scheme, incinerating the planet and evading sanctions. I use Linux and macOS and the former would never allow this to happen ever.

How is a hidden file, that was just now stumbled upon 4+ years later, an endorsement?