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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 louison11 »

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.

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

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Post by woodruffw »

alex_sf wrote: post #29
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.

As am I. The top 100 wouldn’t even scratch the surface of any scientific or non-literary domain.

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Post by mhluongo »

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.

> and the former would never allow this to happen ever.

Not sure what you mean here. There are many Linux distros...?

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

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Post by andrewfromx »

This is like a slightly better version of https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-campaign-to-erase-th... someone wanted to pick an example PDF and picked the bitcoin one. Just like in the article above back in 1973 they didn't realize the harm in what they were selecting as the sample photo. And maybe there is no harm with this PDF selection? We'll know in 2073!
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