Quote from: Nekomata on August 19, 2014, 03:46:14 AM

I was reading a recent ducknote interview: cointelegraph.com/news/112294/what-the-duck-cryptonote-inspired-ducknote-xdn

things are a bit weird, bear with me:

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here is no single duckNote developer. Instead, there is a number of duckNote developer teams with excellent IT knowledge and deep understanding of CryptoNote technology and cryptocurrency phenomenon. Each team is focused on its own project part, there are professional programmers, economists, managers and testers united by one idea

sounds awful alot like the cryptonote "team", a bunch of unknown people with said high academic and professional background, why such people would launch an amateur-looking coin like duckNote?

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duckNote was launched on May 30 2014, New Moon. Hats off to BCN developers who launched Bytecoin - the very first CryptoNote implementation more than 2 years ago. duckNote is a fork of Bytecoin repository, with some unique features and specifications.

now here is where they show themselves, "Hats off to BCN developers"??, "more than 2 years ago"? Roll Eyes

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DN: duckNote is anonymous decentralized ASIC-resistant CPU-efficient cryptocurrency with unique emission curve and smart Economy. It is based on more than 2 years aged CryptoNote technology, implemented and approved by Bytecoin developers in mid 2012. Comparing with BCN, duckNote got different emission logic, network specs and development process.

now they are really pushing, no way if they were unrelated to CN team they would say " 2 years aged CryptoNote technology", it starts to sound very forceful, remember this article was published yesterday so ducknote 'dev team' had plenty of time to keep up with the allegations, we even had a guy tweet that he had nothing to do with cryptnote, how could ducknote team completely ignore this thread and go ahead saying BS like " implemented and approved by Bytecoin developers in mid 2012."...

suspicious as f*ck.

let me answer you in short terms:
1. duckNote is not an amateur coin.
2. Crypto scene is not limited to one country, continent or even the whole World. Do you really think that such a technology like CryptoNote will lay aside and hide from the eyes? i do not think so.
3. We found CryptoNote technology, we looked at its Roots and we found Bytecoin inside. We started base code research, it took some time to dive deep in that technology, but when we were done, we presented duckNote. And we are absolutely serious about it.
4. "Hats off to BCN developers" and everyone who will make such a codebase public and open source. Again, we care only about "root code" and we could not fail to mention Bytecoin, because duckNote is Bytecoin`s fork like any other CN cryptocurrency, and the technology is separated from Bitcoin.
5. "now they are really pushing, no way if they were unrelated to CN team they would say " 2 years aged CryptoNote technology", it starts to sound very forceful".
em Huh

whaat?
we forked Bytecoin, hope you got it. yes we are. we made it. Bytecoin exist for 2 years, because we can see it in blockcain, are we? Yes, we are. And it works, that was the main and only measure when we were choosing codebase for duckNote.
But we do not know for sure how long does CryptoNote exist so we can`t say for sure.

P.S. We are not in your battle here, sorry, truly i did not read the whole forum topic here and do not understand your issues with duckNote. I hope those who do not like duckNote now, will like it in future. We keep hard work, thank you for your support.