{"id":132930,"date":"2023-04-05T23:03:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T23:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/23\/04\/05\/bitcoin-whitepaper-found-hidden-in-macos-with-unknown-virtual-scanner-ii-app?utm_medium=rss"},"modified":"2023-04-05T23:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T23:03:29","slug":"bitcoin-whitepaper-found-hidden-in-macos-with-unknown-virtual-scanner-ii-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/04\/05\/bitcoin-whitepaper-found-hidden-in-macos-with-unknown-virtual-scanner-ii-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin whitepaper found hidden in macOS with unknown &#8216;Virtual Scanner II&#8217; app"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-hero\" aria-labelledby=\"hero-cap\" role=\"figure\">\n<p id=\"hero-cap\" class=\"hero-caption\" title=\"The Bitcoin whitepaper his hidden within macOS\">The Bitcoin whitepaper his hidden within macOS<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bitcoin-whitepaper-found-hidden-in-macos-with-unknown-virtual-scanner-ii-app.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/bitcoin-whitepaper-found-hidden-in-macos-with-unknown-virtual-scanner-ii-app.jpg\" alt> <\/a> <\/div>\n<p>Satoshi Nakamoto&#8217;s Bitcoin whitepaper can be found in any <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/inside\/mac\" title=\"Mac\" data-kpt=\"1\">Mac<\/a> running macOS Catalina or newer, but no one knows why.\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Andy Baio, a blogger with an extensive history in the tech community, shared an <a href=\"https:\/\/waxy.org\/2023\/04\/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos\/\">odd discovery<\/a> on his blog <em>Waxy<\/em> \u2014 the Bitcoin whitepaper can be found on any Mac running recent versions of macOS. It can be discovered via a simple Terminal command or by navigating Finder.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The user needs to navigate to the Macintosh HD -&gt; System -&gt; Library -&gt; Image Capture -&gt; Devices. Control-click on VirtualScanner.app and Show Package Contents, then open the Contents -&gt; Resources folder -&gt; simpledoc.pdf.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>After some digging, Baio discovered that he wasn&#8217;t the first to find this hidden scanner or Bitcoin document. In 2021, an <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/252657375\">Apple Community post<\/a> asked about it, and an odd photo taken on Treasure Island found in the Virtual Scanner II app.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bitcoin whitepaper his hidden within macOS Satoshi Nakamoto&#8217;s Bitcoin whitepaper can be found in any Mac running macOS Catalina or newer, but no one knows why. Andy Baio, a blogger with an extensive history in the tech community, shared an odd discovery on his blog Waxy \u2014 the Bitcoin whitepaper can be found on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}