Mac Users: Someone Hid the Bitcoin White Paper in Your System Files...
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TL;DR
If you have a Mac, the Bitcoin white paper may well be hidden in your system library.
Here's how to find it: navigate to MacintoshHD/System/Library/Image Capture/Devices. Right click 'VirtualScanner' and select 'Show Package Contents.'
Then navigate to the 'Resources' folder and open 'simpledoc.pdf' - and there you have it, the Bitcoin white paper.
Full Story
In today's: "wait, what? No. Let me check that for myself. Holy hell! It's true!" news...
Have you ever downloaded Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin white paper?
Regardless of whether you answered 'yes' or 'no' - there's a good chance it's on your computer.
If you have a Mac, and have updated your operating system at least once since the release of MacOS 'Mojave' in 2018 - the Bitcoin white paper should be hidden in your system library.
Here's how to find it:
Navigate to MacintoshHD/System/Library/Image Capture/Devices.
Right click 'VirtualScanner' and select 'Show Package Contents.' Navigate to the 'Resources' folder and open 'simpledoc.pdf.'
And there you have it, the Bitcoin white paper.
But here's the really weird part...
Josh D, the dude who found it, originally posted about his discovery back in 2020 and Apple did nothing about it:
Joshy boy also cited the cover.jpg image held in the same folder.
It shows a sticker reading 'WARNING! ALARM SYSTEM. THESE PREMISES ARE MONITORED ELECTRONICALLY.'
Why are these files there? Who put them there? What does it all mean?
No idea. Probably just a goof from an Apple engineer.
All we know for sure is: we're excited to read all of the wild and varying conspiracy theories this is bound to generate on Reddit.