Where did he claim claymore was a bytecoin dev?. I think he is referring to the intentional
slow_hash cripplingwhich was left over during the copy paste process and somehow sneaked past the eyes of the collective 'large dev team', during their expansive audit and review of the codebase.. something which is hardly a stretch to say could have been exploited by those that wrote it in the first place (or indeed an independent third party who knew how to read or write code to a basic level)
Well, DGA did substantial work on the pow speedup (and NoodleDoodle, Wolf and others).
Nice own goal from you tho, because he also optimized the boolberry hashing code:
https://github.com/cryptozoidberg/boolberry/commit/9e31e74048a4b2a92e048637a29bc0f9160c2432