There are so many easier ways to scam people out of money in crypto than to produce original and innovative code, which Bytecoin continue to do.
I disagree with you on this. There is negligible meaningful innovation going on there. You see things like wallets supporting multiple color schemes, half-baked multisig schemes that are incompatible with the primary feature of the coin (ring signature mixing), and claims of support for high-TPS payment processing for e-commerce when there is in fact zero e-commerce going on using the coin and little to no realistic possibility of there every being any, certainly not any requiring a high TPS (which even Bitcoin doesn't reach and any alt is orders of magnitude smaller). All of which makes it quite clear "features" like these are really just hype for pumping.
I understand it is very difficult for people who don't have a technical background to judge what is actual sustantial R&D and what is fraudulent or hype for pumping. If you don't want to rely on me, or rethink-your-strategy, or Professor David Anderson, or Noodle Doodle, or others who have actually looked at all this carefully
and have the required technology knowledge and understanding to evaluate what they see, you should find some trusted advisors with the necessary expertise to guide you. Right now you are just drifting aimlessly.
Is it that you feel Monero will fail unless you continue to "blow the lid off Bytecoin"? Since the tech is originally theirs and they press ahead with development the only real features Monero offers is a good community and (very) probably better distribution.
I think you are quite confused about where the meaningful work is being done, and where there is a just a bunch of hype about reshuffling of code and pointless nonsense.
Bytecoin: 64 commits
Monero: 1034 commits (not including work on developer forks that isn't merged yet).
Monero core and community innovations over the past year:
1. Electrum seed wallets
2. Optimized (and documented) proof-of-work algorithm
3. Database implementation with negligible memory requirements
4. 32-bit support and fixes, including embedded platforms like RPi2
5. 5+ third party GUI wallets
6. Merchant framework
7. MyMonero web wallet with client-side javascript cryptography and private keys never sent to the server
8. GUI skeleton
9. Portable compact blockchain format.
10. Integrated addresses (no more payment IDs for routine transactions!)
11. Several MRL white papers analyzing and improving anonymity.
12. High level Python implementation of crypto for research
13. Watch only (view key) wallets.
In progress:
1. Smart mining
2. Non-retarded APIs
3. Improved difficulty retargeting
4. Improved privacy of transaction amounts
5. Multisig compatible with ring sigs
6. Rolling hard fork deployment scheme
I'm probably (almost certainly) forgetting some on both lists, but you get the point already.
Finally, you are still assuming that the people working on Bytecoin now have anything to do with the original innovation, which is not clear at all.
If we believe everything that Cryptonote has said, the Bytecoin group split off because they wanted to launch a coin (which they did fraudulently, but it doesn't really matter if you believe that, or prefer the Tooth Fairly explanation of a coin that existed for years in the deep web that no one, including avid deep web users and experts, had ever heard of) and the original Cryptonote people who designed everything did not but were more interested in promoting the technology and getting others (e.g. Monero) using it and developing on top of it. How else do you explain the cryptonote starter kit (
https://cryptonotestarter.org) they released last year?
As far as I can tell from their statements, Monero is doing exactly what the inventors and developers of the original technology (i.e. the "innovation" you are so obsessed about) wanted done. The Bytecoin scammers, not so much.
