Is cryptonote invented by the same developers who created Bytecoin? I do not know the full history of cryptonote and it would be nice to be given some URLs of articles about its story and how it came to be. Thank you.
It seems otherwise; the original creator of CryptoNote actively encouraged forking, so probably people behind CryptoNote and Bytecoin are different.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=512747.msg6135077#msg6135077There's a series of posts on Reddit summarizing the history of Bytecoin and Monero (the above post was cited in Part I):