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 jonas21 » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:37 PM UTC

Ancapistani wrote: post #60

> One other oddity: there’s a file called cover.jpg in the Resources folder used for testing the Photo media type, a 2,634×3,916 JPEG of a sign taken on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. There’s no EXIF metadata in the photo, but photographer Thomas Hawk identified it as the location of a nearly identical photo he shot in 2008. If I were Thomas Hawk, I’d be sending Apple a bill for the use of my photograph.

I don't think it's his photograph -- they just both photographed the same sign (the Apple version contains parts of the wall that are not in Thomas Hawk's version).

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

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Post by sebzim4500 » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:37 PM UTC

indy wrote: post #43

Animats wrote: post #9

Is there a Bitcoin miner somewhere in there, too?

Every iPhone ships with a bitcoin miner. It gets activated once your phone is over a year old.

I wonder if that would generate a financially significant amount of BTC. Would they ever actually mine a block with that little compute?

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

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Post by sodality2 » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:39 PM UTC

colesantiago wrote: post #47

mhluongo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> and the former would never allow this to happen ever. Not sure what you mean here. There are many Linux distros...?

And they will never allow this to happen.

https://minerstat.com/software/mining-os

It’s not even relevant, though. You can make your claims about the supposed endorsement without making a reference to Linux at all, or even if you did, appeal to the freedom aspect of it - you can probably remove it and compile it yourself. To claim that none of them are even ideologically supportive of it? An absurd claim

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

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Post by dingosity » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:39 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #45

Skyy93 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And facilitating organized crime, terrorism, and investment scams.

Careful. You're going to be accused of furthering an "ideological debate" in violation of HN's Terms of Service.

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

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Post by nouryqt » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:39 PM UTC

For what it's worth the virustotal page[0] for the sha256 hash[1] of the pdf file has it marked as "File distributed by Apple" so it must have been known for some time now? Would be interesting to know when that notice was added but there is no archive of the site unfortunately.

[0] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b1674191a88ec5cdd733e424...

[1]b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553

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

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Post by it_citizen » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:42 PM UTC

codehalo wrote: post #59

neilv wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And facilitating organized crime, terrorism, and investment scams.

And human trafficking.

And funding North Korea.

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

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Post by danielodievich » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:43 PM UTC

This reminds me of the (encrypted) copy of Microsoft Bob shipping with every Windows XP CD ever https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-...

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

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Post by dingosity » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:43 PM UTC

mdmglr wrote: post #52

reaperman wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Back in my day, "easter eggs" used to be cool.

How is this pdf cool? Back in my day easter eggs were fun.

Tech isn't about fun any more. It's about making huge stacks of cash. We used to build things because it was fun and half-way artistic. Now we only build things if we think we can convince a VC to give us cash for it.

Though... I suppose this isn't exactly the venue to encourage people to do things simply for the joy of it.

[Also... you kids get off my lawn!]

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

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Post by overthrow » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:43 PM UTC

neilv wrote: post #45

Skyy93 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And facilitating organized crime, terrorism, and investment scams.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3942181

> For example, illegal transactions, scams and gambling together make up less than 3% of volume.

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

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Post by colestantiago » Wed, Apr 05, 2023, 10:44 PM UTC

it_citizen wrote: post #66

codehalo wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And human trafficking.

And funding North Korea.

don't forget ransomware enablement and burning the planet up with mining.