Apple covertly removed the Bitcoin white paper from the most recent MacOS beta

The Bitcoin white paper has been covertly taken out of the most recent beta of the largest tech company’s operating system update.

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The Big Tech company has removed a test scanner tool named Virtual Scanner II from the most recent MacOS Ventura 13.4 beta, and as a result, the Bitcoin white paper has also been erased, according to the Apple-focused news site 9to5Mac, which broke the story on April 25.

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In a blog post from April 5, technologist Andy Baio disclosed that every copy of MacOS for the previous five years had included a PDF of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper.

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