Safely Wipe a Mac's SSD
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Overwrite the macOS disk partition table and re-partition over encrypted data without causing excessive wear by explicitly erasing the full SSD:
# Replace N in diskN with the disk number of your choice
# Use "diskutil list" to confirm, and ALWAYS back up your data
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskN bs=512 count=1
diskutil partitionDisk /dev/diskN 1 GPT APFS "Macintosh HD" 100%