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What do you make of the apparent schism between Cryptonote, which now appear to be the prime movers behind the technology, and the Bytecoin team? They make numerous allusions on their forum posts that there was disagreement in how Bytecoin was to be developed which led to the two teams splitting.
Thats above my paygrade other than to observe that it seems all sad and weird to me. (It's hard for me to tell what strange game of chess people are playing here, perhaps extra hard because I don't care about any of it as mentioned I think introducing alt-currencies is a dead end route). I mean, I could make guesses,... but it would just be guesses, my spider sense which usually protects me from weird situations certantly goes off around that stuff. Then again, I may just be miscalibrated relative to the baseline level of scum and villainy expected in the altcoin space. 
It always amuses me how one can shape another one's thoughts and find allusions where there aren't any. CryptoNote and Bytecoin team indeed worked together. It's Bytecoin devs that created the vast majority of the code based on the cryptography that was primarily ours by design. As BCN devs were interested in playing around with the coins itself, our courses departed. That is basically the whole story. CryptoNote never envisioned itself stick to community and ecosystem creation. We simply let others do it.
I've recently contacted Bytecoin team and there are some interesting updates, which they promise to roll out in a few weeks.