The Bitcoin whitepaper, published by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008, is hidden inside Apple's Mac line of computers, blogger Andy Baio has discovered. This and more news in this handy daily summary so that you are always informed with the most recent events that occur within the crypto world.
Apple hides a copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper on its Mac computers
📍A copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper is available for Mac computers. The discovery was published by blogger Andy Baio, who shared a publication on his blog Waxy recounting how he found the Bitcoin whitepaper hidden on his computer.
In Baio's words, “The file is present in all (recent) versions of macOS, from Mojave (10.14.0) to the current version, Ventura (13.3)”.
Baio claims to have confirmed the availability of the Bitcoin whitepaper with at least a dozen friends who use a Mac. Also, following the news, several Bitcoiners and members of the crypto community are reporting that they have successfully opened the hidden Bitcoin whitepaper on their Apple computers using the command provided by Baio.
The blogger also explained that the Bitcoin whitepaper is used as a sample document for a device called the “Virtual Scanner II,” which does not have many references.
Joshua Dickens, a product designer at Instagram, was the first to comment about the existence of the Bitcoin whitepaper on Mac computers in November 2020. So far, Apple has not provided any details on the matter.
140.000 bitcoins are held by MicroStrategy
📍MicroStrategy adds another 1.045 bitcoins to its corporate treasury. Michael Saylor's business intelligence company now holds 140.000 bitcoins, valued at around $4.000 billion.
In a declaration In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), MicroStrategy reported investing another $29,3 million in BTC, acquiring a total of 1.045 additional bitcoins.
The last Bitcoin purchase made by the American company occurred at the end of March this year. On his Twitter account, its CEO Michael Saylor had reported the acquisition of 6.445 bitcoins at an average purchase price of $29.817 per BTC.
MicroStrategy has adopted Bitcoin as its primary store of value asset since August 2020, confident in the cryptocurrency's long-term growth and appreciation potential.
Ethereum price rises on the market
📍Shapella upgrade is driving ETH price up. Ethereum, the second most capitalized cryptocurrency in the market, is up 5% on the week and is approaching $1.900 per unit as the scheduled date for the implementation of the Shapella update draws closer.
Ethereum developers confirmed that Shapella is coming to mainnet next week, specifically, on Wednesday, April 12. On its blog, the Ethereum Foundation confirmed that the long-awaited upgrade will be activated in a hard fork on the mainnet at epoch 194048, scheduled for 22:27 UTC on the 12th of this month.
The price of Ethereum has reacted positively to the news. ETH is currently trading at around $1.885 per unit, reaching an 8-month high according to data from CoinMarketCap.
So far this year, the price of Ethereum has increased by 57%, being the second Best performing investment asset this 2023 according to Goldman Sachs.
Source: CoinMarketCap
New malware is targeting cryptocurrencies
📍Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky is warning of new malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency. This is the Clipper malware, which “operates by replacing a portion of the entered clipboard content with the cybercriminal’s own wallet address once it detects a wallet address in the clipboard,” the company explained.
Clipper is distributed via a trojanized version that looks like the Tor Browser privacy browser, Kaspersky warns.
So far, Kaspersky researchers they report that cybercriminals have affected around 15.000 devices with Clipper, stealing around $400.000 with this malware campaign.
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