ALL lies and bullshit, do not believe any of this.
If you don't mind, I'd like for you to explain why. There are a lot of agendas floating around out here on the internetz, and readers of these posts (like me) will always have a hard time telling who is telling the truth, and who has an agenda. So unless someone supplies some proof, I'll have no choice but to consider the fact that either of you could be lying. As he said, Bytecoin is in fact on poloniex. Of course that doesn't mean that it will remain there. I haven't invested anything in bytecoin, but I was interested in a long term buy and hold strategy with bytecoin. Drop say $100 on bytecoin, and then sit back and wait a few years until it reaches a dollar.
If you're saying that is never going to happen, then I'm definitely interested and would like to know why. Something that I can at the very least google and check for confirmation. If its a scam, then fine its a scam and I won't invest with them. But I want to see proof. If its not, then its not and I also want to see proof of that. From reading this thread, it seems safe to come to the conclusion that nobody in the thread actually knows for sure.
Which in itself could point to it being a scam. If they can't get clear, comprehensive data out to investors, then there is some kind of problem on their end. Then again, every crypto (including bitcoin) has been called a scam at some point. Every single one.
Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero) is the name of this topic and it is accurate from that point in time I believe. There are other Crypto note coins besides Monero that are not scams as more coins get launched some obviously are scams and some are not but BYTECOIN most Definitely is. also I can attest that Aeon is not a scam and I don't belive the original Cryptonote Dash coin is not (Darkcoin stole the name Dash from them| apparently Dark Dev paid a dash dev something for it but thats not how things work).
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/blowing-the-lid-off-the-cryptonotebytecoin-scam-with-the-exception-of-monero-740112AFA the Monero team goes this post explains the team info from a lead dev.
Regardless of CryptoNote being a scam or NOT, you should be commended for your analytical skills and the amount of effort you put into this.
I agree - this is a mountain of information to go through:)
OP, I'd like to thank you for confirming the suspicions many of us involved with Monero have held for quite some time. There are a handful of things I'd like to comment on.
Those two obvious sockpuppet/shill accounts also take delight in bashing Monero in the Monero sub-reddit (here are snippets from
WhiteDynomite and
cheri0). Literally the only thing these sockpuppets do, day in and day out, is make the Bytecoin sub-reddit look like it's trafficked, and spew angry bullshit all over the Monero sub-reddit.
I'm a moderator in the subreddit, and I can confirm that this happens on a daily basis. There are around 60 separate sock-puppet accounts we've found posting in the Monero subreddit. The creation dates are all between the 23rd of Jan and the 9th of Feb this year.
Monero is streets ahead, partly because of the way they're developing the currency, but mostly because the "core devs" or whatever they're called are made up of reasonably well-known people. That there are a bunch of them (6 or 7?) plus a bunch of other people contributing code means that they're sanity checking each other.
The core team consists of 7 people, and we hail from all over the world and are multi-faceted in our knowledge. This does mean we're sanity-checking each other, to be sure. Pretty much all of us have been around for well over a year, which I'm sure contributes as well. We try to keep our development as transparent as possible, and we publish all of our development efforts and links to dev branches on github in our weekly Dev Diary (part of the Monero Missives).
Thank you for the vote of confidence and for the effort you put in to uncovering this.
OK, no more bumps for this bullshit for real this time!
