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Re: [BCN] Bytecoin (CPU-mining, true anonymity)
by
smooth
on 18/05/2014, 19:37:54 UTC
You want it all handed to you on a silver platter. Do remember that the devs never publicly posted this to the forum and never attempted to spread it to the bitcoin community.

I know a bunch of Newbie accounts with no real previous activity started posting about it, yes.

As I said before, the developers were either idiots, thinking that a coin with new real user base could possibly be successful, or they saw that executing premine scams was getting harder and dressed it up with a little extra gloss (secret deep web stores and services, cicada 3301, etc.). I don't think they are idiots.

On top of which, the code they did release had a deliberately (or at best highly suspicious) de-optimized miner ensuring a continued advantage over other miners. This is not my opinion, it is the opinion of several well known and highly talented programmers on this forum. You can dismiss my religious views, but you can't dismiss code.