I like cryptoNote coins, and i am a little confused because there are users saying that bytecoin did not existed before 2014 and the blockchain was faked, if so, how is it possible that exist forks before 2014?
Bytecoin claims to have launched on 2012, so far
there is no irrefutable evidence of this but the timestamps on the blockchain itself, and this could have been easily faked with a relatively low amount of computing power since the diff was so low.
Since there is no real evidence, you are left trusting the devs in this.