I honestly don't think anything they have done currently makes Bytecoin a scam, however, their actions are a lot more than shady and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot more begins to come out in the future. Regardless of scam or not, before you take a foot into Bytecoin territory, ponder for a while what exactly you are getting into.
Read this thread
Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740112.0And if you think bytecoin is not a scam after that then tell me so I can put you on ignore along with the other morons.
Look, I don't disagree, a lot of stuff around bytecoin is extremely shady. However, given premine in bytecoin, it's no surprise they are trying to protect their identities.
More importantly, if you are doing work on behalf of community, transparency, etc, you should be a more careful in your definitions, it doesn't serve anybody when accusations are stretched beyond facts.
Man you seems to not understand. They come here in 2014 and announced the coin. And only after some time it was found out that 80% of coins was mined in last 2 years. They claimed that it launched in 2014 and not 2012. IT was a planed scam. This is only reason thankful for today launched Bitmonero. If bytecoin scammers would normally launch bytecoin in 2012 and announced it in advance would be no need for Monero at all.
This is correct.
No need to be overly defensive man, I have called out Bytecoin's bullshit just as much as you do. The reason why I don't like to call Bytecoin a scam outright is because there isn't a lot of hard proof on these things. That thread mentions no proof whatsoever, and while I don't doubt at all that the premine happened and more (i.e binance pump), there just isn't any proof. The best way to educate people about Bytecoin I feel is to just tell the information at hand and let people come to their own conclusions about the subject. Thats just my two cents though