It was a relatively quiet week in crypto, characterized mostly by Apple, AI, and (who else?) Elon Musk. Apple made waves almost accidentally, after a tech blogger discovered that a copy of the Bitcoin white paper lives on every version of MacOS since 2018. Meanwhile, AI development continued to speed up, with new AI-based moves from Meta and others, and continued debate over whether we need to slow AI development out of caution. Finally, DOGE had a bigger week than BTC or ETH thanks to Musk. But it was short-lived. Read on!
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Apple is a towering tech behemoth, but it can still have a little fun. The maker of the iPhone and Mac has a rich history of hiding “Easter eggs” within its products—things like playable games and pop culture references. But this one is definitely a surprise: it turns out that the original Bitcoin white paper has been hidden in Apple’s macOS since 2018.
Word of the discovery spread this week as users searched their Macs to find that a PDF of the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto’s foundational Bitcoin text was there. Early Bitcoin contributor Craig Wright, who still claims he is Satoshi but has thus far failed to prove it, is now saying Apple’s move could be a copyright breach.
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Dogecoin had a big week on the crypto charts, thanks to Elon Musk (as usual). Also as usual, the meme coin quickly lost its Twitter-led momentum. DOGE popped more than 20% in an hour on Monday after the Musk-owned Twitter changed its usual blue bird icon into the Shiba Inu face from the Doge meme.
Toronto-based Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 recently announced a merger with U.S. Bitcoin Corp that will take it into Texas, Nebraska, and New York. Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton joined Dan Roberts and Stacy Elliott to talk expanding into the U.S., dealing with regulatory pushback post-FTX, why Texas is such a hotspot, and where she’d like to expand globally down the road.
