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The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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

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Post by alex_sf »

s1gnp0st wrote: post #198
EamonnMR wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if Bitcoin ends up being one mankind’s most important inventions That seems unlikely.

It's really disheartening how much unjustified disdain is heaped upon Bitcoin the technology by commenters here. You're going to claim you're certain that a solution to the Byzantine generals problem will have no useful consequences?

I like bitcoin. I use it. It's cryptobro nonsense to claim anything to do with it is in the 'top 100 non-literary' documents ever produced by humanity.

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

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Post by chclt »

Skyy93 wrote: post #41
louison11 wrote: post #32

It’s a convenient way of backing up the document that can be used to re-create this impactful technology from scratch… may a disaster take place. Think like sending backups of human civilization into space. There are probably now hundreds of millions of copy of this file, pretty cool.

Currently the only impact Bitcoin had is burning a large amount of electricity. I would not say this is a particular worthy technology to safe. There would be far better ideas like Transformers in AI or 5nm chip technology.

Meh, being able to synchronise an append-only tamper proof linked list and control who gets to put what on it in a decentralized way is pretty cool. Not to mention it's far easier to implement with limited means, than 5nm chips, or large tansformer models.

(Also implementing money on it does seem pretty intelligent -- its a scarcity device -- peoble just seem to do stupid stuff with it)

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

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Post by gst »

jaimehrubiks wrote: post #224
eis wrote: post #13

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How could it be that versions of MacOS released in 2019 have the paper due to a court case from 2021? Even ignoring the temporal issue I really can't see any plausible connection.

You can check that he got the US copyright for the bitcoin whitepaper in 2019 https://cryptobriefing.com/us-grants-craig-wright-copyright-... https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-creator-craig-s-wright-satoshi-... That explains the temporal issue. Then, for the connection, I remember a lot of people on the internet reacted negatively on that news given that they don't agree that he should have ownership for that document as…

The quoted CoinGeek site is owned by Calvin Ayre who works together with Craig Wright. All their BSV related articles are very one-sided and extremely biased.

A more objective viewpoint is directly available from the US copyright office at https://www.copyright.gov/press-media-info/press-updates.htm... - see the entry with the title "May 22, 2019: Questions about Certain Bitcoin Registrations".

Basically he registered a copyright, but this does not mean that he "got" the copyright, as the copyright office does not verify authorship and as it's possible for multiple adverse claims to exist.

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

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Post by chclt »

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.

Why are you getting so worked up about what is fundamentally a neat idea, which may or may not be used well?

> evading sanctions

The horror

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

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Post by culi »

asdff wrote: post #92
crazygringo wrote: post #87

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Yup. I can't even think of any other "famous PDF". If you asked me for a famous modern formatted document generally, I might say the screenplay for The Godfather would be a good candidate. But there's no canonical PDF for that. :P Plus, copyright would prevent that.

What about the famous "Lorem Ipsum"?

Is there a PDF? I thought it was just filler text. Along those same lines:

* holoalphabetic sentences like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." or "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs."

* Etaoin shrdlu

* Hamburgevons

* New Petitions Against Tax. Building Code Under Fire.

* foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, corge, grault, garply, waldo, fred, plugh, xyzzy, and thud

* famous texts like Alice in Wonderland, Kafka, the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, etc

* Postmodernism generator, snarXiv, Chomskybot, etc

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Post by com2kid »

grimgrin wrote: post #149
crazygringo wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. I can't even think of any other "famous PDF". If you asked me for a famous modern formatted document generally, I might say the screenplay for The Godfather would be a good candidate. But there's no canonical PDF for that. :P Plus, copyright would prevent that.

I can think of nothing more important and famous than chicken.pdf https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

Ah isotropic.org, once the home of the best ever online version of Dominion. The mobile version is now good enough, but it took nearly a decade and multiple development teams to catch up to what one developer did in his spare time.

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

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Post by INTPenis »

Animats wrote: post #9

Is there a Bitcoin miner somewhere in there, too?

Valid questions for any consumer.

I love the comments here all so awe struck by this that they don't realize how stupid it is. Literally any PDF document would have served the same purpose, the printer test page could have been enough. But this just reveals that even deep inside Apple development there are cryptobros who don't mind all the millions of dollars that the whole crypto movement has scammed from hard working gullible people.

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Post by EamonnMR »

dragonwriter wrote: post #258
EamonnMR wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's cropped from an explicit photograph published in Playboy.

The original is a nude, but calling it “explicit” is…quite a stretch. [0] [0] a scan of the full centerfold is included in this piece (NSFW, obviously): https://kevinrye.net/index_files/1972_playboy_magazine_the_l...

Maybe I should have used NSFW instead of explicit, I just don't like to mix initialisms into my speech.
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