Re: Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero)

Quote from: CoolGecko on December 03, 2014, 02:21:01 PM

Maybe you didn't read what I said in response to you above. It's my understanding that the Cryptonote developers and the Bytecoin developers were the same people, when the coin was being developed. I think that they may have formed separate teams now though. I haven't seen anyone claim that the Bytecoin developers didn't make the codebase before. I could be wrong as I don't know the history well. If you are right about this prove it to me.

If you look at the Bytecoin source code from the beginning it said "Copyright (c) 2012-2013 The Cryptonote developers". Here is an example from the May 4th 2014 initial commit - https://github.com/amjuarez/bytecoin/blob/296ae46ed8f8f6e5f986f978febad302e3df231a/src/cryptonote_config.h#L1

The point at which they changed it to say "Bytecoin developers" was August 13th, because even the previous commit (June 29th) still said "Cryptonote developers" on every file - https://github.com/amjuarez/bytecoin/blob/209e2356f54c5f93b8f6d6cf7810693e60b45a9e/src/cryptonote_core/tx_pool.cpp

The best thing for you to do is checkout the source code at that June 29th commit and see if they attribute anything to the Bytecoin developers. You will see they do not.

With regards to them being the same people, there used to be a topic on the CryptoNote forum called "Who Are You?" that they've since deleted (you can see it on archive.org as the fourth post down on the Philosophy sub-forum). Thankfully, Rias (a Bytecoin shill) wrote up a little FAQ where he referenced that deleted thread in answering a question -

Quote from: Rias on April 04, 2014, 03:13:35 PM

Q: Are CN and BCN developers the same people?
A: Cryptonote's developers repeatedly refer to Bytecoin's devs as "them" and also indicate that they used to collaborate closely on the earlier stages, but currently two teams don't have direct connections [5].