Also, isn't it true that if Bytecoin was actually mined since 2012, that only about 10 computers were mining it?
I think someone did analysis of the hash rate a while back and came to the conclusion that the number of people mining it was very small for quite a while. Perhaps it was mined by universities during its first few months or something. The whole thing is extremely mysterious.
(Then again, a lot of things in the crypto world are shrouded in mystery. Nobody knows the identities of Satoshi or BCNext. Or the Truecrypt developers. Bytecoin seems to fit the trend.)
Hence you would expect to see a lot more development happening with these newer coins compared to a three year old coin that has probably already accomplished most of its original design goals.
But Monero is almost 3 years old itself. I personally mined Monero in 2012.
People have called me a liar for saying that, but they couldn't come up with any objections that don't apply equally to Bytecoin.
Umm... The evidence would be in the code and the blockchain, no?