So as to add to Raghav’s reply above, Cobra just lately posted this query on Twitter with a screenshot of what you see if you obtain Bitcoin Core on MacOS for the primary time.
He outlines what would have to be executed for Bitcoin Core builders to handle this:
The repair is trivial, simply signal the applying with an Apple developer account certificates, and notarize it, and it’ll run instantly for customers, with out exhibiting this warning.
However Andrew Chow defined on Twitter why Bitcoin Core builders haven’t executed this:
a notarized app will telephone residence to Apple’s servers to confirm that the notarization is legitimate. This privateness concern is what stopped the try and notarize Core, in any other case it could have been executed some time in the past. Many devs will not be comfy with that invasion of privateness.
Does a person trusting apple imply that they’re opting into apple being the ultimate arbiter of what they’ll run on their machine? As a result of AFAIU, that is what app notarization does. Apple can revoke notarizations thereby stopping an app from being put in.
Cobra argues that
Core makes requests to DNS seeds, which leaks the person’s privateness to random Core builders, however by some means, the person should not belief Apple, their very own OS supplier?
and
Apple’s walled backyard is a serious promoting level, many individuals like functions being vetted and pre-approved.
That summarizes the arguments for and towards the Bitcoin Core builders addressing this person expertise downside on MacOS. I’d count on this to proceed to be a person expertise downside for the foreseeable future.