Btw, is there any info available about the developer? Does he fully understand the design and code of the project he forked?
If there is one Bytecoin clone that has a active community and support from respected members its Monero. Lots is going on and the core people involved are mostly early adaptors of BTC. This should give you some trust i guess?
About the developer. The coins was launched by TFT and got supported by the early BCN fans. After the community wanted to propose stronger feature's TFT handed over the coin to the community and XMR evolved from 1 dev to a group of people with a lot of crypto experience and a heart for doing things the proper way (not the typical alt clone dev's). They already fixed some core issues that where present in BCN, optimised the hashing, developed a pool, standalone miners, a QT wallet and also new RPC calls. All these things are build on top of the BCN code so yes, they understand the code better each day. Hope this answerrs your question
Thanks! It helps, though I would like to read it myself. Is there a list with their names/pseudonyms or other credentials? There is zero info in the website and OP. And what is TFT?
In short; TFT (thankfull_for_today) was the original developer of (bit)monero. Then the community stepped in because he was not that active and/or answered questions. Then on a democratic way (by voting) some changes he wanted to implement where wipped from the table (mostly because of pressure from the community / it would hurt Monero in the long haul) and after a week he agreed to hand over the code and added some community members to his github for more involvement by others.
You can also read the Monero Missives from a few days ago to get to know the current team:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7098497