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BIS issues comprehensive paper on offline CBDC payments

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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is actively exploring opportunities for offline payments involving a central bank digital currency, or CBDC. On May 11, the BIS Innovation Hub Nordic Centre published a comprehensive handbook exploring how CBDCs could work for offline payments. The guide is written in collaboration with technical consultancy Consult Hyperion, addressing objectives for resilience, cash resemblance, accessibility and other offline CBDC features. Offline payments and ledger systems. Source: BIS Titled “Project Polaris,” the paper highlights new potential risks stemming from offline payments with CBDCs, including counterfeit or…

Bitcoin white paper quietly removed by Apple from latest MacOS beta: Report

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The world’s largest tech company has quietly removed the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper from the latest beta version of its operating system upgrade. On April 25, the Apple-focused news site 9to5Mac reported the Big Tech firm had removed a test scanner app called Virtual Scanner II in the latest MacOS Ventura 13.4 beta, and subsequently, the Bitcoin white paper is gone. As reported by Cointelegraph, an April 5 blog post from technologist Andy Baio revealed that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper PDF had shipped with every…

Stablecoin less preferable form of tokenized money, BIS paper finds

The singleness of money is the assurance that public and private money trade at the same rates. Even small differences between public and private money rates can have a ripple effect across transactions. A Bank of International Settlements (BIS) working paper compared models of private tokenized money in terms of their singleness as a complement to a central bank digital currency. Tokenization is “the process of representing claims in a digital form that allows them to be transacted on programmable platforms using smart contracts,” the paper said. Tokenized money can…

Bitcoin white paper hidden on macOS, Binance and DOGE news…

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Top Stories This Week Bitcoin white paper is apparently hiding in Apple’s modern macOS Satoshi Nakamoto’s original white paper laying out the thesis for the Bitcoin network is seemingly hiding within every modern version of the operating system for Apple’s Mac computers. An April 5 blog post from technologist Andy Baio revealed that a PDF of the Bitcoin white paper has “apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018.” Baio told Cointelegraph he was trying to fix his printer and scan a document when Nakamoto’s white paper…

Japan Greenlights Web3 White Paper to Boost Crypto Adoption & Growth

Japan recently approved a Web3 white paper that could place the East Asian nation at the forefront of global crypto growth.  Japan has approved a Web3 white paper to boost the country’s fledgling crypto industry growth. On Thursday, the East Asian nation’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s Web3 project team published the crypto-guiding document. The white paper proposes several recommendations for growing and enhancing Japan’s digital currency space. These include instituting more tax reforms, improved accounting standards, and a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) law. Furthermore, the comprehensive crypto document also proposes that Japan…

Users reveal bitcoin white paper is part of macOS

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According to a recent blog post by Andy Baio, a PDF file of Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin whitepaper is reportedly concealed in every current macOS edition released since Mojave in 2018.  As Baio attempted to repair his printer, he accidentally found the file. He discovered that it existed in every macOS version, starting with Mojave (10.14.0) and going up to the most recent version, Ventura (13.3). It was not available in High Sierra (10.13) or prior versions. Including the whitepaper in macOS has prompted speculation regarding the document’s relevance and inquiries about whether…

Every Modern Copy of macOS Contains a Copy of Bitcoin’s White Paper – Bitcoin News

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On April 5, 2023, the independent blogger Andy Baio published a post on his Waxy Blog that explained every version of macOS from Mojave 10.14.0 to the current version hosts a copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s seminal Bitcoin white paper. Mac users can type a simple command in the terminal, and all nine pages describing Nakamoto’s invention will appear in a PDF version in the built-in image viewer, Preview. Blogger Discovers Bitcoin White Paper Hidden on Every macOS 10.15 or Later While celebrating Satoshi Nakamoto’s alleged April 5th birthday, bitcoin supporters…

Bitcoin white paper is apparently hiding in Apple’s modern macOS

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Satoshi Nakamoto’s original white paper laying out the Bitcoin (BTC) network is seemingly hiding within every modern version of the operating system for Apple’s Mac computers. An April 5 blog post from technologist Andy Baio revealed that a PDF of the Bitcoin white paper has “apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018.” Baio told Cointelegraph that he was “just trying to fix my printer” and scan a document with a wireless scanner when a device called “Virtual Scanner II” appeared that he’d “never seen before.” By…