Post
Topic
Board Altcoin Discussion
Re: Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero)
by
smooth
on 11/08/2017, 05:40:18 UTC
Like I said butthurt everywhere. Good, good let the butthurt flow through you. Bitcoin was instamined, Bytecoin was instamined, Dash was instamined. Every coin that you didn't get first dibs on was instamined and for the record I have nothing to do with the Bytecoin team. If you bothered reading the first part of my post you would see that I found Bytecoin by accident in 2013 and mined it.

Do tell us where you found it, and for extra bonus points provide evidence.

Because this is what the web site looked like until March 2014:

http://web.archive.org/web/20140128152612/http://www.bytecoin.org:80/

And this is what was available on their github repo prior to 2014:

https://github.com/amjuarez/bytecoin/tree/175d06e75e05aa4a42269dd048516e13b5bd585e

(for those reading who are not familiar with code, there is nothing there but a basic crypto library)

Bitcoin was posted on a mailing list before launch (and a mailing list reported to have a few thousand members, though I can't confirm that), there was and is a record of discussion of it shortly thereafter on sourceforge (and later other places), proving that it actually existed and was not premined 80% using a phony backdated chain. A large number of people were mining Bitcoin before it was even 25% mined, much less 80%. (I mined it just after 25%, and there was already a large community here when I showed up.)

No such evidence has ever been found in support of Bytecoin existing prior to early 2014. Only occasional claims from fools who don't realize they were mining the other Bytecoin, or deliberate liars/sock puppets. As I said, shills and social engineering (with the occasional useful idiot thrown in).