What differences are there between the two coins on a technical level? Meaning... has either dev team added something to the cryptonote code, or done anything to really differentiate them?
I'm still waiting for a dev to figure out a solution to the bloat issues with all cryptonote coins. It wouldn't surprise me to see a dev wander in one day with a new coin, have a fix for the bloat + gui wallet, and overshadow all existing cryptonote coins.
I think the main reason is that BBR is just a one an show while XMR have a lot of really talanted devs around it.
BBR is not a 'one man show'
About XMR unfair mining;
NoodleDoodle optimized the slow hash code recently to about 225% performance. However, he has decided not to release the source code and has only released binaries. I think he is enjoying mining MRO with very high hash rates from Linux right now. Eventually we hope he will release the code.
Our git repo has the same code as BCN 0.8.6, so will be the same speed.
I firmly believe that noodle should not be part of development team.
Like I stated in IRC, I am not part of the "dev team", I never was.
Just so happens I took a look at the code and changed some extremely easy to spot "errors". I then decided to release the binary because I thought MRO would benefit from it. I made this decision individually and nobody else should be culpable, especially the community of individuals who have come together to maintain and foster the software.
By the way, I'm not even a real coder, so whatever changes I made should be easy to spot; especially for experienced developers.Cheers.
Speaks volumes about XMR in my mind.
Are you dense or something? This was code that was part of the original reference CryptoNote code. Had nothing to do with Monero. In fact, it took Monero to fix this "bug".