MacOS appears to have contained a copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper since 2018

If you want to run your first test script, try producing Hello World. If you want to run your first test print, print out the Bitcoin whitepaper from 2009. At least that’s what Apple thought; The company appears to have been putting the paper in macOS since 2018, for unclear reasons.

Developer Andy Baio discovered the paper by accident when he tried to fix a printer in his operating system. He discovered that the Bitcoin whitepaper was showing as a preview option in the printer settings. The whitepaper is on the drive as simpledoc.pdf as a sample document for a scanning tool that is not enabled by default for users. According to Baio, it can be called from the terminal with the command open /System/Library/Image\Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf.

It is not known why Apple includes the famous document in the OS. According to Baio, the company has been doing this since 2018; the whitepaper can be found in all versions of macOS since 10.14.0 Mojave. The document is also included in the most recent version, 13.3 Ventura. In 10.13.0 High Sierra the document cannot be found.

The Bitcoin whitepaper dates from 2009 and was written by a person or group calling themselves Satoshi Nakamoto. The document explains the operation of Bitcoin and the blockchain. Baio speculates that the document could probably be a good test document for printers. He says he has spoken to sources who say that an issue is open, but that there has been no response for a year.