yeah i know that, but still the difference between bitcoin and older crypto(i didn't read all the the article, but the old crypto didn't have block reaward/address/mining ecc...they work on a different bases, instead monero have only the cryptonote algo as something new) are very high compared to new coin and bitcoin, the latter are more of a clone, than the old one with bitcoin imho
for example you can't just say that bitcoin is a clone of electronic money
Monero uses the
CryptoNote protocol, which is completely different from the
Bitcoin protocol. It does use a different proof of work algorithm from Bitcoin, but that is inconsequential, as that is definitely not the key or only differentiator.
For example, what you think of as a "wallet" in Bitcoin is a group of private (spend) and public keys that belong to you. In Monero, a wallet only contains two private keys: a spend key and a view key. An "address" in Bitcoin is a base58 encoded hash of the public key associated with a particular private key inside a wallet. In Monero, an "address" is a base58 encoding of the serialised view and spend public keys.
Incidentally, "mining" in Bitcoin is merely proof of work, and Satoshi openly acknowledges in the Bitcoin whitepaper that it is based on
Adam Back's Hashcash.
Therefore, just because it appears to be similar in concept and uses similar terminology does not mean that it is the same thing. Satoshi Nakamoto pulled many things together in Bitcoin, from a HashCash-derived proof of work system, to the blockchain which is, essentially, a Merkle tree that is not too dissimilar from what Ralph Merkle patented in 1979. Similarly, Monero certainly uses many of the theoretical principles espoused in Bitcoin, but it pulls many other cryptographic concepts together, such as its use of ring signatures (per the "group signatures" paper published by D. Chaum and E. van Heyst in 1991).