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Mother of monerochan
Monero is a 2014 hard fork of Bytecoin (BCN). Bytecoin: 2012. Monero: 2014. Same privacy tech. Different launch.
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The story of the original privacy meme.
Proof 1: Monero started as a Bytecoin fork.
Bitcointalk, April 2014:
“Bitmonero is a fork of Bytecoin with a new blockchain.”
— thankful_for_today (Monero’s creator)
Monero was rebranded from Bitmonero in the same week it launched. It uses the same CryptoNote privacy technology pioneered by Bytecoin.
View the original Bitcointalk thread
Proof 2: Bytecoin launched in 2012 — first CryptoNote coin.
Bitcointalk, July 2012:
“ByteCoin - CPU mined, anonymous, untraceable”
— First post ever, July 2012
Bytecoin was the original CryptoNote coin, launched in 2012.
View the original Bitcointalk thread
Proof 3: Cryptonote still has the copyrights to Bytecoin code.
Official repo (migrated):
Open any `.cpp` file and check the top line to find the original copyright notice.
Copyright (c) 2012-2013, The Cryptonote developersView on GitHubMonero-chan is born from Monero. Meet Byte-chan — the OG 2012 version.
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