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All eyes are in traditional markets surrounded by today’s tariffs. Most notably, we see Bitcoin (as we did on Friday) see whether it could serve as a hedge against global uncertainty.
Anyway, analysts continue to maintain their previous price forecasts for Bitcoin, with standard charters, Vanek and Galaxy all noting that the industry foundations are strong and the continued adoption of corporate and government.
In fact, when GameStop waits for the first bitcoin to buy, even bearish critics (like Mark Cuban) remain positive about corporate adoption trends.
At the MIT Bitcoin Conference this weekend, Metaplanet, Semler Scientific and Mara Holdings are all keeping the addition of BTC to their balance sheets.
With that spirit, I’m revisiting Apple today.
In 2023, files secreted into MacOS revealed much about their complex relationship with Bitcoin. The story behind this Easter egg shows why Apple is likely to become the ultimate domino (if BTC Treasury adoption became mainstream).
Today: Macos Bitcoin White Paper discovered
“Do what you can, what you have, where you are.”
As former US President Teddy Roosevelt told in his 1913 autobiography, it is the secret to a resourceful life.
Someone at Apple clearly took that to heart, over 110 years later.
Sunday was the second anniversary of (re)discovery, when all macos secretly contained the perfect copy of the Bitcoin white paper.
Technician Andy Bio discovered Nakamoto at Lara’s paper in 2023 while trying to fix his printer. It was mysteriously buried under the file name “Simpledoc.pdf” in the built-in image capture app “Virtual Scanner II.”
The file was only 184 kb in size – the original exact size – Bio wonders whether the file is simply “a convenient, lightweight multi-page PDF for testing purposes and never means that it will never be seen by end users.”
Yes, that’s right.
There was another file, “cover.jpg”, which was used as a test image for the app. It was photographed on a boat island in San Francisco Bay. This, combined with the white paper, suggests that the file was an intentional Easter egg for the Bitcoin crowd.
Whitepapers can be found on all MacOS versions, from Mojave (10.14.0) to Ventura (13.3), but not High Sierra (10.13) or earlier for each original post on Baio.
This means that a bitcoin white paper was sitting there waiting to be found. 4 years Starting in September 2018, a rough estimate of how many active MacOS devices are currently available worldwide, suggesting that Bitcoin whitepapers could be installed in up to 150 million units.
Bio was right to point out that he wasn’t actually the first person to find a secret white paper. Previously, two and a half years ago, in November 2020, it was discovered by designer Josh D., who was investigating the utility of the Virtual Scanner II app.
For some reason, it was my first time on the internet that I barely noticed.
Apple has never publicly commented on Easter eggs. Tech Giant quietly deleted the Bitcoin whitepaper in the beta version of Ventura 13.4, released in May 2023, about a month after Baio’s blog post went viral.
Also, no one came forward to claim responsibility for smuggling files into MacBooks around the world.
However, Baio posted a strange update to his blog:
“Update: The little bird shows that someone submitted it as an issue almost a year ago and was assigned to the same engineer who placed the PDF there in the first place, and that person is likely to be removed in a future version.”
Certainly it was for me Not so secret At least in 2023, Apple’s Bitcoin Maxi. I hope they are still around.
– David Canelis
Lizzo’s Take, Bitcoin Historian
Believe it or not, there was a time when Bitcoin users destroyed and shot down their iPhones.
In 2014, Apple, long known for its own software practices, won the rage of Bitcoin’s earliest adopters by blocking popular wallet apps. The relationship has been more or less the same since then, with Jack Dorsey publicly embarrassing Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2023 and total ignorance of his company’s Bitcoin.
Fast forward to 2025 and haven’t changed much. Apple is against cryptocurrency. This is one of the reasons why Easter eggs in whitepapers have always felt like an activist work, and it is not evidence that Apple has an epic cryptography scheme.
