I have read tons of rage against this coin from Monero community(that accuse of scam every other coin to be honest), but still is unclear why someone claim scam. How can tell this? the fact was announced here years after the launch doesn't mean that was unfairly premined by developer, in addition with few USD you can buy more bytecoin than whatever other "promoted coin" you can hope to mine...
With just 1 USD I have bought more Bytecoin than what XMR or Ethereum i could earn in ten years of mining(and note that I'm follow these altcoins from a long time but unfortunately no way to mine much of them with home pc)... where is the unfair distribution of monetary base?? To me is way more unfair that few big corporate miners insta-pump the value and with tons of computational power provided from bot net and server farms get the control of most of the monetary base since the start and all the others have to pick up the little crumbs or pay a lot of "classic money" to get a hilarious percent of total theoretical monetary base.
With just 1 USD I have bought more Bytecoin than what XMR or Ethereum i could earn in ten years of mining(and note that I'm follow these altcoins from a long time but unfortunately no way to mine much of them with home pc)... where is the unfair distribution of monetary base?? To me is way more unfair that few big corporate miners insta-pump the value and with tons of computational power provided from bot net and server farms get the control of most of the monetary base since the start and all the others have to pick up the little crumbs or pay a lot of "classic money" to get a hilarious percent of total theoretical monetary base.
I'm not even going to try and answer any or all of that, however, you can start here and draw your own conclusions, much like all of us have long ago (And no, I am not a BCN holder, ever).
Thanks
Edit- BCN and XMR were and are distributed very differently, so it's like comparing rabbit shit to coffee beans IMO
... I hope this coin dies soon. 
