Copy of text from reddit post at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/boolberry/comments/98pkmg/while_boolberry_was_almost_the_monero_before/Interesting observation, and I absolutely agree. There were a couple of important things that happened around that time in April / May of 2014. Aside from the fact that Monero was "rush launched" which gave it status as the 1st fork from BCN, it also had 1 minute block times for the first 2 years, and therefore a much faster emission curve, even though they both had the same emission factor. This faster emission curve allowed coins to be accumulated and gave people an incentive to organize and work as a team, similar to the effect that DASH's instamine had. If you look at the old OTC threads on BCT, Boolberry actually traded at a premium to Monero in May 2014 prior to listings on Polinex and Bittrex.
BBR OTC:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-bbr-boolberry-trading-thread-high-0004-low-0001-last-00022-616391XMR (MRO) OTC:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/closed-mro-monero-trading-thread-and-otc-xchg-578192Its important to note that the lag between the pre-ann and genesis block for Boolberry included some changes that have stood the test of time. The change in the hashing algo Wild Keccak, was never shown to have any unfair advantage like we saw with Monero. (see link)
https://da-data.blogspot.com/2014/08/minting-money-with-monero-and-cpu.htmlAdditionally, other features that were challenged by the Monero community, namely, Smooth, were later incorporated such as pruning of ring signatures and eventually changing the hashing algo to V7 (supposed to be ASIC resistant), which might change yet again! Monero uses a 2MB scratchpad, where Boolberry has a scratchpad that is now about 340MB and grows at about 90MB per year. Even if there were FPGAs mining BBR, the Xilinx VCU1525 only has 346MB on chip memory, so that should be passed in the next couple of weeks.
Cryptozoidberg, was churning out code in mid 2014 at a pace that was unprecedented. There was a funny post from CZ aimed at FluffyPony as they were blindly merging commits. (see link)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8960248Also during this time there was a chess match between Monero and Boolberry. (see link)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cryptonote-technical-discussion-and-chess-challenge-1190988The competition during 2014 was fierce and the fact that cryptozoidberg was 1 person trying to compete against a group of old bitcoin guys that took over Monero from thankful_for_today.
Here is the original Bitmonero thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annbmr-bitmonero-a-new-coin-based-on-cryptonote-technology-launched-563821Current Monero thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/xmr-monero-a-secure-private-untraceable-cryptocurrency-583449In December 2014 Cryptozoidberg announced that he was going to be working on a new project code named Louid'or. (see link)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/louisdorcodename-first-anonymous-pos-cn-based-currency-technical-review-887482In his absence there were several attempts by unrelated parties to bring changes to Boolberry, which ultimately led to its de-listing from both Polinex in April '17 and Bittrex in August '17.
For a period of almost 3 years, CZ would periodically surface to reiterate his commitment to return. Finally earlier this year, He DID return, and has implemented a number of improvements over the past several months. Improvements include, off-line signatures (a requirement for exchanges like Binance), LMDB (which took monero a year to implement) integrated addresses, which eliminates the confusion for people sending coins to exchanges which requires a payment ID, and a long list of optimizations and bug fixes.
If you look on cryptomiso.com, and choose ranking by previous 3 months, Boolberry is listed among some large name coins, and at the moment BBR is ranked #114 vs XMR at #86.
https://www.cryptomiso.com/months_3.htmlThere is not much information out regarding what is planned, but on the website
https://boolberry.com/ if you look at phase 3 of the road-map, it say "Big news to come in the year ahead."
Hope this helps connect some of the dots and gives a better overview of history.
Here is the link to the Boolberry Telegram Group:
https://t.me/boolberry_bbrAnd "the official" Twitter:
https://twitter.com/BoolberryBBR