What if Bitcoin started off as CryptoNote instead of SHA-256?

[cochranizer666]

I figured I'd ask this because of the whole issue with ASIC miners and other shit like that...what if someone time traveled to 2008, actually met Satoshi Nakamoto, and delivered the source code to CryptoNoteCoin and said, "here, take this code instead, SHA-256 is NOT going to work, and I'll explain why..." ?

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[Spoetnik]

Maybe he did.. after all the Monero dev vanished.
The guys you see with it today are the guys who did the "Community Take over" on it.
Gets ya thinkin' don't it ?

Bytecoin LOL

[cochranizer666]

Maybe he did.. after all the Monero dev vanished.
The guys you see with it today are the guys who did the "Community Take over" on it.
Gets ya thinkin' don't it ?

Bytecoin LOL

That's why I'm mining Bytecoin instead of Monero. If more people get sick of Monero, and more people get sick of Bitcoin, they'll give Bytecoin a try.

[Spoetnik]

The original Bytecoin has nothing to do with Monero.

Basically the Monero guys noticed that the coin name they originally chose.. was already taken.
It was a mistake i guess because they did not check to see if the coin name was used already.

I believe Bytecoin was a SHA256 coin from many years ago (released before Cryptonote / Monero existed)

Do you see what i mean ?
For example Microsoft tried to use the word "Metro" and after they put the word all over their stuff on the web they got sued by Metro AG. a German company who held the trademark for it.
Microsoft had no choice but to abandon the name (for Modern)

You may want to move this to the Altcoin section and maybe make a new topic asking about the history of Monero.
I have few details on it actually.. other than the juicy tidbits of drama  

So Bytecoin did continue on long after Monero was a thing.. see what i mean ?

[fikihafana]

Because of resistant to asic miner, i think it more valuabe than sha256

[_nur]

The original Bytecoin has nothing to do with Monero.

Basically the Monero guys noticed that the coin name they originally chose.. was already taken.
It was a mistake i guess because they did not check to see if the coin name was used already.

I believe Bytecoin was a SHA256 coin from many years ago (released before Cryptonote / Monero existed)

Do you see what i mean ?
For example Microsoft tried to use the word "Metro" and after they put the word all over their stuff on the web they got sued by Metro AG. a German company who held the trademark for it.
Microsoft had no choice but to abandon the name (for Modern)

You may want to move this to the Altcoin section and maybe make a new topic asking about the history of Monero.
I have few details on it actually.. other than the juicy tidbits of drama 

So Bytecoin did continue on long after Monero was a thing.. see what i mean ?

why do you like bytecoin so much?

[Spoetnik]

Who said i like Bytecoin ? I was just clearing the confusion.
Confusion related by Monero idiots..

I know even less about Bytecoin than i do Monero.. and i have never owned either coin.