{"id":38983,"date":"2023-04-06T15:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T19:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38983"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:12:15","slug":"bitcoin-pdf-in-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/06\/bitcoin-pdf-in-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin PDF in macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/waxy.org\/2023\/04\/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos\/\">Andy Baio<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=35461011\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/04\/06\/macos-includes-bitcoin-whitepaper\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/waxy.org\/2023\/04\/the-bitcoin-whitepaper-is-hidden-in-every-modern-copy-of-macos\/\">\n<p>While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoin.org\/bitcoin.pdf\">Bitcoin whitepaper<\/a> apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If you&rsquo;re on a Mac, open a Terminal and type the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>open \/System\/Library\/Image\\ Capture\/Devices\/VirtualScanner.app\/Contents\/Resources\/simpledoc.pdf<\/pre>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In the Image Capture utility, the Bitcoin whitepaper is used as a sample document for a device called &ldquo;Virtual Scanner II,&rdquo; which is either hidden or not installed for everyone by default.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s unclear whether this a test file that wasn&rsquo;t intended to ship or an Easter egg of some kind.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Baio (Hacker News, MacRumors): While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto&rsquo;s Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018. [&#8230;] If you&rsquo;re on a Mac, open a Terminal and type the following command: open \/System\/Library\/Image\\ Capture\/Devices\/VirtualScanner.app\/Contents\/Resources\/simpledoc.pdf [&#8230;] In the Image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-04-06T19:25:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"650fdae2-b8f3-4695-823c-14e4d15eda37","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-04-07T19:12:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZQ_a4rjzRpWCPBTk0V7aNw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[914,1639,1268,30,1609,2223,345],"class_list":["post-38983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bitcoin","tag-easter-eggs","tag-image-capture","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-14","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-pdf"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39018,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38983\/revisions\/39018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}