I fail to see the point of this post fluffy?
Rough claims that Bytecoin existed before 2014, but Rough didn't exist before 2014.
So I think that was the point.
I bought a few million BCN at 1 satoshi, and I still have some of them. Is there any reason why I shouldn't sell them now for 4 satoshis? Any reason that existed before 2014?
If there was any other evidence that Bytecoin existed before 2014, then Rough's join date wouldn't matter. But is there
anyone in the world who mined Bytecoin in 2012 and was also a member of bitcointalk in 2012? I can show you people who posted on bitcointalk in 2012 - can you show me people who mined Bytecoin in 2012? Not just
tell me about them and expect me to trust you, but
show me?
Rough says he got Bytecoin from a Tor onion. Of all the people in the world who used both Tor and Bitcoin in 2012, I think a significant percentage of them were aware of bitcointalk. So how is it that no Bytecoin users were aware of Bitcointalk, and vice versa?
Every other coin in the world has people hyping it and fudding it vigorously, but all those Bytecoin miners kept it a secret? Why? What were they doing with their Bytecoins, if nobody in the world accepted them, traded them, or even mentioned it once on the internet? If it was a better-kept secret than Silk Road, for some unknown reasons that even the people using Bytecoin were completely silent about it for so long, then why did they all suddenly change their minds and come to bitcointalk? Did they have some blockchain consensus protocol and take a vote on it?
What good are ring signatures and trustless networking, if the entire concept requires us to be so trusting that we have to swallow heaps of blatant lies?