Yeah, CryptoNote "v2". I wonder if there was "v1" at some point.
See
https://cryptonote.org/coins.phpand is regarded as the first implementation of the CryptoNote technology, with releases dating as early as July 2012
Basically this coin has been mining for two years, it was mining before they started to release the paper and research. It's a premine pure and simple.
At least Satoshi released his whitepaper in the same month as Bitcoin, not over a year later.
https://minergate.com/blockchain/bcn/block/1To be honest, the only people that are going to shout and be loud in support of Bytecoin over Monero are the people who have billions of Bytecoin.