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Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam (with the exception of Monero) - Reformatted for Reddit

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August 15, 2014, 08:15:37 AM

Preamble

I'd like to start off by stating categorically that the cryptography presented by CryptoNote is completely, entirely solid. It has been vetted and looked over by fucking clever cryptographers/developers/wizards such as gmaxwell. Monero have had a group of independent mathematicians and cryptographers peer-reviewing the whitepaper (their annotations are here, and one of their reviews is here), and this same group of mathematicians and cryptographers is now reviewing the implementation of the cryptography in the Monero codebase. Many well known Bitcoin developers have already had a cursory look through the code to establish its validity. It is safe to say that, barring more exotic attacks that have to be mitigated over time as they are invented/discovered, and barring a CryptoNote implementation making rash decisions to implement something that reduces the anonymity set, the CryptoNote currencies are all cryptographically unlinkable and untraceable.
Two other things I should mention. I curse a lot when I'm angry (and scams like this make me angry). Second, where used my short date format is day/month/year (smallest to biggest).
If you find this information useful, a little donation would go a long way. Bitcoin address is 1rysLufu4qdVBRDyrf8ZjXy1nM19smTWd.

The Alleged CryptoNote/Bytecoin Story

CryptoNote is a new cryptocurrency protocol. It builds on some of the Bitcoin founding principles, but it adds to them. There are aspects of it that are truly well thought through and, in a sense, quite revolutionary. CryptoNote claim to have started working on their project years ago after Bitcoin's release, and I do not doubt the validity of this claim...clearly there's a lot of work and effort that went into this. The story as Bytecoin and CryptoNote claim it to be is as follows:
They developed the code for the principles expressed in their whitepaper, and in April, 2012, they released Bytecoin. All of the copyright messages in Bytecoin's code are "copyright the CryptoNote Developers", so clearly they are one and the same as the Bytecoin developers. In December 2012, they released their CryptoNote v1 whitepaper. In September 2013, they released their CryptoNote v2 whitepaper. In November 2013, the first piece of the Bytecoin code was first pushed to Github by "amjuarez", with a "Copyright (c) 2013 amjuarez" copyright notice. This was changed to "Copyright (c) 2013 Antonio Juarez" on March 3rd, 2014. By this juncture only the crypto libraries had been pushed up to github. Then, on March 4th, 2014, "amjuarez" pushed the rest of the code up to github, with the README strangely referring to "cybernote", even though the code referred to "Cryptonote". The copyrights all pointed to "the Cryptonote developers", and the "Antonio Juarez" copyright and license file was removed. Within a few days, "DStrange" stumbled across the bytecoin.org website when trying to mine on the bte.minefor.co.in pool (a pool for the-other-Bytecoin, BTE, not the-new-Bytecoin, BCN), and the rest is history as we know it. By this time Bytecoin had had a little over 80% of its total emission mined.

Immediate Red Flags

The first thing that is a red flag in all of this is that nobody, and I mean no-fucking-body, is a known entity. "Antonio Juarez" is not a known entity, "DStrange" is not a known entity, none of the made up names on the Bytecoin website exist (they've since removed their "team" page, see below), none of the made up names on the CryptoNote website exist (Johannes Meier, Maurice Planck, Max Jameson, Brandon Hawking, Catherine Erwin, Albert Werner, Marec Plíškov). If they're pseudonyms, then say so. If they're real names, then who the fuck are they??? Cryptographers, mathematicians, and computer scientists are well known - they have published papers or at least have commented on articles of interest. Many of them have their own github repos and Twitter feeds, and are a presence in the cryptocurrency community.
The other immediate red flag is that nobody, and I mean no-fucking-body, had heard of Bytecoin. Those that had heard of it thought it was the crummy SHA-256 Bitcoin clone that was a flop in the market. Bytecoin's claim that it had existed "on the deep web" for 2 years was not well received, because not a single vendor, user, miner, drug addict, drug seller, porn broker, fake ID card manufacturer, student who bought a fake ID card to get into bars, libertarian, libertard, cryptographer, Tor developer, Freenet developer, i2p developer, pedophile, or anyone else that is a known person - even just known on the Internet - had ever encountered "Bytecoin" on Tor. Ever. Nobody.

Indisputable Facts

Before I start with some conjecture and educated guesswork, I'd like to focus on an indisputable fact that obliterates any trust in both Bytecoin's and CryptoNote's bullshit story. Note, again, that I do not doubt the efficacy of the mathematics and cryptography behind CryptoNote, nor do I think there are backdoors in the code. What I do know for a fact is that the people behind CryptoNote and Bytecoin have actively deceived the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency community, and that makes them untrustworthy now and in the future. If you believe in the fundamentals in CryptoNote, then you need simply use a CryptoNote-derived cryptocurrency that is demonstrably independent of CryptoNote and Bytecoin's influence. Don't worry, I go into this a little later.
So as discussed, there were these two whitepapers that I linked to earlier. Just in case they try remove them, here is the v1 whitepaper and the v2 whitepaper mirrored on Archive.org. This v1/v2 whitepaper thing has been discussed at length on the Bytecoin forum thread, and the PGP signature on the files has been confirmed as being valid. When you open the respective PDFs you'll notice the valid signatures in them:
signature in the v1 whitepaper
signature in the v2 whitepaper
These are valid Adobe signatures, signed on 15/12/2012 and 17/10/2013 respectively. Here's where it gets interesting. When we inspect this file in Adobe Acrobat we get a little more information on the signature
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Notice the bit that says "Signing time is from the clock on the signer's computer"? Now normally you would use a Timestamp Authority (TSA) to validate your system time. There are enough public, free, RFC 3161 compatible TSAs that this is not a difficult thing. CryptoNote chose not do this. But we have no reason to doubt the time on the signature, right guys? crickets
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See these references from the v1 whitepaper footnotes? Those two also appear in the v2 whitepaperth. Neither of those two footnotes refer to anything in the main body of the v1 whitepaper's text, they're non-existent (in the v2 whitepaper they are used in text). The problem, though, is that the Bitcointalk post linked in the footnote is not from early 2012 (proof screenshot is authentic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196259.0)
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May 5, 2013. The footnote is referencing a post that did not exist until then. And yet we are to believe that the whitepaper was signed on 12/12/2012! What sort of fucking fools do they take us for?
A little bit of extra digging validates this further. The document properties for both the v1 whitepaper as well as the v2 whitepaper confirms they were made in TeX Live 2013, which did not exist on 12/12/2012. The XMP properties are also quite revealing
XMP properties for the v1 whitepaper
XMP properties for the v2 whitepaper
According to that, the v1 whitepaper PDF was created on 10/04/2014, and the v2 whitepaper was created on 13/03/2014. And yet both of these documents were then modified in the past (when they were signed). Clearly the CryptoNote/Bytecoin developers are so advanced they also have a time machine, right?
Final confirmation that these creation dates are correct are revealed those XMP properties. The properties on both documents confirm that the PDF itself was generated from the LaTeX source using pdfTeX-1.40.14 (the pdf:Producer property). Now pdfTeX is a very old piece of software that isn't updated very often, so the minor version (the .14 part) is important.
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pdfTeX 1.40.14 pushed to source repo on Feb 14, 2014
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This version of pdfTeX was only pushed to the pdfTeX source repository on February 14, 2014, although it was included in a very early version of TeX Live 2013 (version 2013.20130523-1) that was released on May 23, 2013. The earliest mentions on the Internet of this version of pdfTeX are in two Stack Exchange comments that confirm its general availability at the end of May 2013 (here and here).
The conclusion we draw from this is that the CryptoNote developers, as clever as they were, intentionally deceived everyone into believing that the CryptoNote whitepapers were signed in 2012 and 2013, when the reality is that the v2 whitepaper was created in March, 2014, and the v1 whitepaper haphazardly created a month later by stripping bits out of the v2 whitepaper (accidentally leaving dead footnotes in).
Why would they create this fake v2 whitepaper in the first place? Why not just create a v1 whitepaper, or not even version it at all? The answer is simple: they wanted to lend credence and validity to the Bytecoin "2 years on the darkweb" claim so that everyone involved in CryptoNote and Bytecoin could profit from the 2 year fake mine of 82% of Bytecoin. What they didn't expect is the market to say "no thank you" to their premine scam.

And Now for Some Conjecture

As I mentioned earlier, the Bytecoin "team" page disappeared. I know it exists, because "AtomicDoge" referred to it as saying that one of the Bytecoin developers is a professor at Princeton. I called them out on it, and within a week the page had disappeared. Fucking cowards.
That was the event that triggered my desire to dig deeper and uncover the fuckery. As I discovered more and more oddities, fake accounts, trolling, and outright falsehoods, I wondered how deep the rabbit hole went. My starting point was DStrange. This is the account on Bitcointalk that "discovered" Bytecoin accidentally a mere 6 days after the first working iteration of the code was pushed to Github, purely by chance when mining a nearly dead currency on a tiny and virtually unheard of mining pool. He has subsequently appointed himself the representative of Bytecoin, or something similar. The whole thing is so badly scripted it's worse than a Spanish soap opera...I can't tell who Mr. Gonzales, the chief surgeon, is going to fuck next.
At the same time as DStrange made his "fuck me accidental discovery", another Bitcointalk account flared up to also "accidentally discover this weird thing that has randomly been discovered": Rias. What's interesting about both the "Rias" and "DStrange" accounts are their late 2013 creation date (October 31, 2013, and December 23, 2013, respectively), and yet they lay dormant until suddenly, out of the blue, on January 20th/21st they started posting. If you look at their early posts side by side you can even see the clustering: Rias, DStrange.
At any rate, the DStrange account "discovering" Bytecoin is beyond hilarious, especially with the Rias account chiming in to make the discovery seem natural. Knowing what we unmistakably do about the fake CryptoNote PDF dates lets us see this in a whole new light.
Of course, as has been pointed out before, the Bytecoin website did not exist in its "discovered" form until sometime between November 13, 2013 (when it was last captured as this random picture of a college girl) and February 25, 2014 (when it suddenly had the website on it as "discovered"). This can be confirmed by looking at the captures on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bytecoin.org
The CryptoNote website, too, did not exist in its current form until after October 20, 2013, at which time it was still the home of an encrypted message project by Alain Meier, a founding member of the Stanford Bitcoin Group and co-founder of BlockScore. This, too, can be confirmed on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://cryptonote.org
~It's hard to ascertain whether Alain had anything to do with CryptoNote or Bytecoin. It's certainly conceivable that the whitepaper was put together by him and other members of the Stanford Bitcoin Group, and the timeline fits, given that the group only formed around March 2013. More info on the people in the group can be found on their site, and determining if they played a role is something you can do in your own time.~
Update: Alain Meier posted in this thread, and followed it up with a Tweet, confirming that he has nothing to do with CryptoNote and all the related...stuff.

Batshit Insane

The Bytecoin guys revel in creating and using sockpuppet accounts. Remember that conversation where "Rias" asked who would put v1 on a whitepaper with no v2 out, and AlexGR said "a forward looking individual"? The conversation took place on May 30, and was repeated verbatim by shill accounts on Reddit on August 4 (also, screenshot in case they take it down).
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. Fucking batshit insane - who the fuck has time for that? Clearly they're pissy that nobody has fallen for their scam. Oh, and did I mention that all of these sockpuppets have a late January/early February creation date? Because that's not fucking obvious at all.
And let's not forget that most recently the sockpuppets claimed that multi-sig is "a new revolutionary technology, it was discovered a short time ago and Bytecoin already implemented it". What the actual fuck. If you think that's bad, you're missing out on the best part of all: the Bytecoin shills claim that Bytecoin is actually Satoshi Nakamoto's work. I'm not fucking kidding you. For your viewing pleasure...I present to you...the Bytecoin Batshit Insane Circus:
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=512747.msg8354977#msg8354977
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Seriously. Not only is this insulting as fuck to Satoshi Nakamoto, but it's insulting as fuck to our intelligence. And yet the fun doesn't stop there, folks! I present to you...the centerpiece of this Bytecoin Batshit Insane Circus exhibit...
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Of course! How could we have missed it! The clues were there all along! The CryptoNote/Bytecoin developers are actually aliens! Fuck me on a pogostick, this is the sort of stuff that results in people getting committed to the loony bin.
One last thing: without doing too much language analysis (which is mostly supposition and bullshit), it's easy to see common grammar and spelling fuck ups. My personal favorite is the "Is it true?" question. You can see it in the Bytecoin thread asking if it's Satoshi's second project, in the Monero thread asking if the Monero devs use a botnet to fake demand, and in the Dashcoin thread confirming the donation address (for a coin whose only claim is that they copy Bytecoin perfectly, what the fuck do they need donations for??).

Layer After Layer

One of the things that happened soon after the Bytecoin "big reveal" was a string of forks popping up. The first was Bitmonero on April 18. Fantomcoin was launched May 6. Quazarcoin was launched May 8. HoneyPenny was announced on April 21, although only launched as Boolberry on May 17. duckNote was launched on May 30. MonetaVerde as launched June 17.
Now for some reason unbeknownst to anyone with who isn't a retarded fuckface, the Bytecoin code was pushed up to SourceForge on 08/04/2014 (the "Registered" date is at the bottom of the page). I have no idea why they did this, maybe it's to try and lend credence to their bullshit story (oh hey, look how old Bytecoin is, it's even on Sourceforge!)
Coincidentally, and completely unrelated (hurr durr), Quazarcoin, Fantomcoin, and Monetaverde are all also on Sourceforge. This gives us a frame of reference and a common link between them - it's quite clear that at least these three are run by the same team as CryptoNote. There is further anecdotal evidence that can be gathered by looking at the shill posts in the threads (especially the way the Moneteverda shills praise merge mining, in a way that is nearly fucking indistinguishable from the Bytecoin praise for multi-sig technology).
QuazarCoin is a special case and deserves a little attention. Let's start with OracionSeis, who launched it. He's well known on Bitcointalk for selling in-game currencies. In that same thread you'll notice this gem right at the end from Fullbuster: "Hey,OracionSeis is no longer under my use so please https://bitcointa.lk/threads/selling-most-of-the-game-currencies.301540/#post-5996983 come into this thread! thank you !" Click through to his new link and Fullbuster clarifies: "Hello, I may look new around here but i've sold my first account and created new one and i have an intention to keep the same services running as my first account did." So now that we know that OracionSeis is a fucking bought account, we can look at his actions a little more critically.
On May 7, just when Monero was being taken back by the community (see below), OracionSeis out of the blue decided to take it overelaunch it himself. This included a now-defunct website at monero.co.in, and a since-abandoned Github. The community pushed back hard, true to form, with hard-hitting statements such as "To reiterate, this is not the original devs, and thus not a relaunch. OP, fuck you for trying this. This should warrant a ban." A man after my own heart. OracionSeis caved and decided to rename it to...QuazarCoin, which launched on May 8. To recap: bought account, launched by trying to "relaunch" Monero, got fucked up, renamed it to QuazarCoin. Clearly and undeniably goes in our pile of fuckface coins.
The other three are a little more interesting. Let's start with ~fuckNote~duckNote. It's hard to say if duckNote is a CryptoNote/Bytecoin project. The addition of the HTML based wallet is a one-trick pony, a common thread among most of the CryptoNote/Bytecoin controlled coins, but that could also be the result of a not-entirely-retarded developer. Given the shill posts in the duckNote thread I'm going to flag it as possibly-controlled-by-the-fuckface-brigade.
And now we come to ~HoneyPenny~ ~MoneyPenny~ ~HoneyBerry~ ~Boolean~ Boolberry. This is an interesting one. This was "pre-announced" on April 21, although it was only released with the genesis block on May 17. This puts it fourth in line, after Fantomcoin and Quazarcoin, although fucktarded proponents of the shittily-named currency insist that it was launched on April 21 because of a pre-announcement. Fucking rejects from the Pool of Stupidity, some of them. At any rate, "cryptozoidberg" is the prolific coder that churned out a Keccak-derived PoW (Wild Keccak) in a month, and then proceeded to add completely fucking retarded features like address aliasing that requires you to mine a block to get an address (lulz) and will never cause any issues when "google" or "obama" or "zuckerberg" want their alias back. Namecoin gets around this by forcing you to renew every ~200 - 250 days, and besides, nobody is making payments to microsoft.bit. This aliasing system is another atypical one-trick-pony that the CryptoNote developers push out and claim is monumental and historical and amazing.
There's also the matter of cryptozoidberg's nickname. In the Bytecoin code there's the BYTECOIN_NETWORK identifiert, which according to the comment is "Bender's nightmare" (hurr durr, such funny, 11100111110001011011001210110110 has a 2 in it). Now this may be a little bit of conjecture, yo, but the same comment appears twice in the "epee" contributed library, once in the levin signature, and again in the portable storage signature. The contexts are so disconnected and different that it would be a fucking stretch to imagine that the same person did not write both of these. We can also rule out this being a Bytecoin-specific change, as the "Bender's nightmare" comments exist in the original epee library on githubw (which is completely unused anywhere on the planet except in Bytecoin, most unusual for a library that has any usefulness, and was first committed to github on February 9, 2014).
We know from the copyright that Andrey N. Sabelnikov is the epee author, and we can say with reasonable certainty that he was involved in Bytecoin's creation and is the dev behind Boolberry. Sabelnikov is quite famous - he wrote the Kelihos botnet code and worked at two Russian security firms, Microsoft took him to court for his involvement (accusing him of operating the botnet as well), and then settled with him out of court on the basis of him not running the botnet but just having written the code. Kelihos is a botnet that pumped out online pharmacy spam (you know the fucking annoying "Y-ou Ne3D Vi-4Gra!?" emails? those.) so it's good to see he transitioned from that to a cryptocurrency scam. Regardless of BBR's claim to have "fixed" CryptoNote's privacy (and the fake fight on Bitcointalk between the "Bytecoin devs" and cryptozoidberg), it's clear that the link between them is not transparent. BBR is either the brainchild of a spam botnet author that worked on Bytecoin, or it's the CryptoNote developers trying to have one currency distanced from the rest so that they have a claim for legitimacy. I think it's the second one, and don't want to enter into a fucking debate about it. Make up your own mind.
Which brings us to the oddest story of the bunch: Bitmonero. It's pretty clear, given its early launch date and how unfamiliar anyone was with creating a genesis block or working in completely undocumented code, that thankful_for_today is/was part of the CryptoNote developers. He made a fatal error, though: he thought (just like all the other cryptocurrencies) that being "the dev" made him infallible. Ya know what happened? He tried to force his ideas, the community politely said "fuck you", and Bitmonero was forked into Monero, which is leading the pack of CryptoNote-based coins today. Let me be perfectly fucking clear: it doesn't matter that the Bytecoin/CryptoNote developers know their code and can push stuff out, and it doesn't matter that Sabelnikov can shovel bullshit features into his poorly named cryptocurrency, and it doesn't matter that Monetaverde is "green" and has "merged mining". Nobody working behind these cryptocurrencies is known in the cryptocurrency community, and that alone should be a big fucking red flag. 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.
And, as we saw, this has fucking infuriated the Bytecoin/CryptoNote developers. They're so angry they waste hours and hours with their Reddit accounts trawling the Monero sub-reddit, for what? Nobody has fallen for their scam, and after my revelation today nobody fucking will. Transparency wins, everything else is bullshit.
As pointed out by canonsburg, when the Bytecoin/CryptoNote people realised they'd lost the fucking game, they took a "scorched earth" approach. If they couldn't have the leading CryptoNote coin...they'd fucking destroy the rest by creating a shit-storm of CryptoNote coins. Not only did they setup a thread with "A complete forking guide to create your own CryptoNote currency", but they even have a dedicated website with a fuckton of JavaScript. Unfortunately this plan hasn't worked for them, because they forgot that nobody gives a fuck, and everyone is going to carry on forking Bitcoin-based coins because of the massive infrastructure and code etc. that works with Bitcoin-based coins.
There are a bunch of other useless CryptoNote coins, by the way: Aeon, Dashcoin, Infinium-8, OneEvilCoin. We saw earlier that Dashcoin is probably another CryptoNote developer driven coin. However, this entire group is not really important enough, nor do they have enough potential, for me to give a single fuck, so make up your own mind. New CryptoNote coins that pop up should be regarded with the utmost caution, given the bullshit capabilities that we've already seen.

All Tied Up in a Bow

I want to cement the relationship between the major CryptoNote shitcoins. I know that my previous section had a lot of conjecture in it, and there's been some insinuation that I'm throwing everyone under the bus because I'm raging against the machine. That's not my style. I'm more of a Katy Perry fan..."you're going to hear me roar". There were some extra links I uncovered during my research, and I lacked the time to add it to this post. Thankfully a little bit of sleep and a can of Monster later have given me the a chance to add this. Let's start with an analysis of the DNS records of the CN coins.
If we look at the whois and DNS records for bytecoin.org, quazarcoin.org, fantomcoin.org, monetaverde.org, cryptonote.org, bytecoiner.org, cryptonotefoundation.org, cryptonotestarter.org, and boolberry.com, we find three common traits, from not-entirely-damming to oh-shiiiiiiit:
  1. There's a lot of commonality with the registrar (NameCheap for almost all of them), the DNS service (HurricaneElectric's Free DNS or NameCheap's DNS), and with the webhost (LibertyVPS, QHosteSecureFastServer.com, etc.)
  2. All of the CN domains use WhoisGuard or similar private registration services.
  3. Every single domain, without exception, uses Zoho for email. The only outlier is bitmonero.org that uses Namecheap's free email forwarding, but it's safe to disregard this as the emails probably just forward to the CryptoNote developers' email.
The instinct may be to disregard this as a fucking convenient coincidence. But it isn't: Zoho used to be a distant second go Google Apps, but has since fallen hopelessly behind. Everyone uses Google Apps or they just use mail forwarding or whatever. With the rest of the points as well, as far-fetched as the link may seem, it's the combination that is unusual and a dead giveaway of the common thread. Just to demonstrate that I'm not "blowing shit out of proportion" I went and checked the records for a handful of coins launched over the past few months to see what they use.
darkcoin.io: mail: Namecheap email forwarding, hosting: Amazon AWS, open registration through NameCheap monero.cc: mail: mail.monero.cc, hosting: behind CloudFlare, open registration through Gandi xc-official.com: mail: Google Apps, hosting: MODX Cloud, hidden registration (DomainsByProxy) through GoDaddy blackcoin.io: mail: Namecheap email forwarding, hosting: behind BlackLotus, open registration through NameCheap bitcoindark.org: mail: no MX records, hosting: Google User Content, open registration through Wix viacoin.org: mail: mx.viacoin.org, hosting: behind CloudFlare, closed registration (ContactPrivacy) through Hostnuke.com neutrinocoin.org: mail: HostGator, hosting: HostGator, open registration through HostGator
There's no common thread between them. Everyone uses different service providers and different platforms. And none of them use Zoho.
My next check was to inspect the web page source code for these sites to find a further link. If you take a look at the main CSS file linked in the source code for monetaverde.org, fantomcoin.org, quazarcoin.org, cryptonotefoundation.org, cryptonote-coin.org, cryptonote.org, bitmonero.org, and bytecoiner.org, we find a CSS reset snippet at the top. It has a comment at the top that says "/* CSS Reset /", and then where it resets/sets the height it has the comment "/ always display scrollbars */". Now, near as I can find, this is a CSS snipped first published by Jake Rocheleau in an article on WebDesignLedger on October 24, 2012 (although confusingly Google seems to think it appeared on plumi.de cnippetz first, but checking archive.org shows that it was only added to that site at the beginning of 2013). It isn't a very popular CSS reset snippet, it got dumped in a couple of gists on Github, and translated and re-published in an article on a Russian website in November, 2012 (let's not go full-blown conspiritard and assume this links "cryptozoidberg" back to this, he's culpable enough on his own).
It's unusual to the point of being fucking impossible for one site to be using this, let alone a whole string of supposedly unrelated sites. Over the past few years the most popular CSS reset scripts have been Eric Meyer's "Reset CSS", HTML5 Doctor CSS Reset, Yahoo! (YUI 3) Reset CSS, Universal Selector ‘’ Reset, and Normalize.css, none of which contain the "/ CSS Reset /" or "/ always display scrollbars */" comments.
You've got to ask yourself a simple question: at what point does the combination of all of these fucking coincidental, completely unusual elements stop being coincidence and start becoming evidence of a real, tenable link? Is it possible that bytecoin.org, quazarcoin.org, fantomcoin.org, monetaverde.org, cryptonote.org, bytecoiner.org, cryptonotefoundation.org, cryptonotestarter.org, and boolberry.com just happen to use similar registrars/DNS providers/web hosts and exactly the fucking same wildly unpopular email provider? And is it also possible that monetaverde.org, fantomcoin.org, quazarcoin.org, cryptonotefoundation.org, cryptonote-coin.org, cryptonote.org, and bytecoin.org just happen to use the same completely unknown, incredibly obscure CSS reset snippet? It's not a conspiracy, it's not a coincidence, it's just another piece of evidence that all of these were spewed out by the same fucking people.

The Conclusion of the Matter

Don't take the last section as any sort of push for Monero. I think it's got potential (certainly much more than the other retarded "anonymous" coins that "developers" are popping out like street children from a cheap ho), and I hold a bit of XMR for shits and giggles, so take that tacit endorsement with a pinch of fucking salt.
The point is this: Bytecoin's 82% premine was definitely the result of a faked blockchain. CryptoNote's whitepaper dates were purposely falsified to back up this bullshit claim. Both Bytecoin and CryptoNote have perpetuated this scam by making up fake website data and all sorts. They further perpetuate it using shill accounts, most notably "DStrange" and "Rias" among others.
They launched a series of cryptocurrencies that should be avoided at all cost: Fantomcoin, Quazarcoin, and Monetaverde. They are likely behind duckNote and Boolberry, but fuck it, it's on your head if you want to deal with scam artists and botnet creators.
They developed amazing technology, and had a pretty decent implementation. They fucked themselves over by being fucking greedy, being utterly retarded, being batshit insane, and trying to create legitimacy where there was none. They lost the minute the community took Monero away from them, and no amount of damage control will save them from their own stupidity.
I expect there to be a fuck-ton of shills posting in this thread (and possibly a few genuine supporters who don't know any better). If you want to discuss or clarify something, cool, let's do that. If you want to have a protracted debate about my conjecture, then fuck off, it's called conjecture for a reason you ignoramus. I don't really give a flying fuck if I got it right or wrong, you're old and ugly enough to make up your own mind.
tl;dr - CryptoNote developers faked dates in whitepapers. Bytecoin faked dates in fake blockchain to facilitate an 82% premine, and CryptoNote backed them up. Bytecoin, Fantomcoin, Quazarcoin, Monetaverde, Dashcoin are all from the same people and should be avoided like the fucking black plague. duckNote and Boolberry are probably from them as well, or are at least just fucking dodgy, and who the fuck cares anyway. Monero would have been fucking dodgy, but the community saved it. Make your own mind up about shit and demand that known people are involved and that there is fucking transparency. End transmission.
Just a reminder that if you found this information useful, a little donation would go a long way. Bitcoin address is 1rysLufu4qdVBRDyrf8ZjXy1nM19smTWd.
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  1. 5300 points, 33 submissions: dEBRUYNE_1
    1. Monero GUI 0.12.0.0 "Lithium Luna" Megathread - Download links, instructions for upgrading, guide on how to get started, and guides to resolve common issues (missing a transaction / zero balance, freezing / buggy GUI, transaction stuck as pending, and GUI using all bandwidth) (386 points, 833 comments)
    2. [Reminder] monero is not the appropriate place to discuss the BTC/BCH debate (319 points, 73 comments)
    3. General information regarding the upcoming scheduled network upgrade and a call for community action (305 points, 223 comments)
    4. GUI v0.12.2.0 released! (299 points, 243 comments)
    5. Announcement - Proof-of-Work tweak and a note on key reuse (295 points, 250 comments)
    6. GUI v0.12.3.0 (with direct Ledger support) released! (280 points, 386 comments)
    7. Bitfinex reduces Monero withdrawal fees from 0.04 to 0.0001 XMR! (272 points, 9 comments)
    8. Poloniex also reduces Monero withdrawal fees to 0.0001 XMR! (220 points, 17 comments)
    9. Preliminary information thread regarding the scheduled protocol upgrade of October 18 (214 points, 208 comments)
    10. CLI v0.12.3.0 released! (195 points, 78 comments)
  2. 4228 points, 24 submissions: OsrsNeedsF2P
    1. Saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need free speech because you have nothing to say. It's a right to everyone - It's a right to you, me, and even Mark Zuckerberg. (581 points, 138 comments)
    2. The official Fortnite Merch Store is accepting exclusively Monero as a cryptocurrency payment option... (445 points, 80 comments)
    3. Can we stop being assholes to newbies? (359 points, 94 comments)
    4. With all this Monero "is less untraceable than previously thought" FUD, let's all remember that huge fucking bounty of $$$ for anyone who can trace the origin of one of the devs transactions.. (343 points, 131 comments)
    5. Ever wanted to know how Monero is still around today? Well now you don't have to! This post has it all =D (297 points, 66 comments)
    6. Coinmarketcap shows Freewallet as a Monero wallet. Guys, whatever you do.. Don't use Freewallet. It's a scam. (286 points, 93 comments)
    7. SEC wants decentralized exchange creators to register as exchanges. Lol (182 points, 111 comments)
    8. "Please do your part in demanding exchanges to lower their XMR withdraw fee. I am submitting a complaint to Coinex who currently charge 0.04 XMR" - [x-post from /xmrtrader] (169 points, 43 comments)
    9. Can we get some appreciation for the people who maintain the Monero packages on Arch Linux? There are so many available, and every single one I've checked either make the package from source or validate the checksum. Amazing work <3 (156 points, 19 comments)
    10. [WARNING] DROPIL recently made a post announcing support for Monero. MOVE YOUR FUNDS if you used them!!! (119 points, 5 comments)
  3. 3954 points, 13 submissions: KnifeOfPi2
    1. Did John McAfee just sell all of his Monero?? (1277 points, 107 comments)
    2. We need to stop thinking about Monero as a “privacy coin.” (511 points, 200 comments)
    3. Selsta and I just completed the first Ledger-to-Ledger mainnet transactions ever. He sent me 0.1 XMR and I sent 0.4 XMR back. (482 points, 103 comments)
    4. Monero network hashrate just hit 1GH/s! (463 points, 166 comments)
    5. An upcoming Monero project: Render the entire blockchain. Here's a selection of blocks that we've done so far, in an early stage. (224 points, 31 comments)
    6. In Stunning Move, Bitmain Announces It's Launching A Doorstopper Business (193 points, 48 comments)
    7. Another red flag for X Wallet: The source code is incomplete. (190 points, 63 comments)
    8. MONERO IS DEAD! LONG LIVE MONERO! (155 points, 25 comments)
    9. Lithium Luna GUI released! (118 points, 66 comments)
    10. Cake Wallet - introducing Zendesk support! (100 points, 13 comments)
  4. 2421 points, 22 submissions: SamsungGalaxyPlayer
    1. Kasisto POS in 22 seconds (366 points, 76 comments)
    2. "Kudelski Security completed their [bulletproof] report. They found only a few minor issues that are trivial to correct, and no major issues." Overall, a huge win for Monero, bulletproofs, and privacy. Full report will be published soon. (338 points, 100 comments)
    3. Network upgrade scheduled for block 1544555 on 28 March (210 points, 56 comments)
    4. Fungibility is determined by the LOWEST common denominator of privacy, NOT the highest. Monero absolutely excels here. (103 points, 37 comments)
    5. [Discussion] Move to a Fixed Ringsize (102 points, 85 comments)
    6. The Monero Malware Response workgroup website is up! Direct people whose machines have been compromised here! (101 points, 22 comments)
    7. MoneroV: A Trap Laid for Monero Users? (93 points, 45 comments)
    8. Want to get the GUI point release faster? Help translate! (91 points, 18 comments)
    9. Introducing the Breaking Monero Series! (86 points, 26 comments)
    10. ShapeShift is moving to a membership model and will require personal information soon (83 points, 86 comments)
  5. 2295 points, 16 submissions: pinkphloid
    1. Cake Wallet - OPEN SOURCE - Here it is! (383 points, 167 comments)
    2. Our Monero wallet called CAKEWALLET for iOS is live! Please check the link to the Apple App Store below. (347 points, 379 comments)
    3. [MANDATORY UPDATE] Cake Wallet Version 3.0.9 - Network Upgrade Ready! (227 points, 19 comments)
    4. [UPDATE] Cake Wallet version 3.1.4, now with XMR.TO for exchanging XMR to BTC! (133 points, 15 comments)
    5. Cake Wallet - 10,000 unique downloads! (132 points, 29 comments)
    6. Thank for the positive feedback on Cake Wallet! (127 points, 62 comments)
    7. The new Cake Wallet Update version 3.0.1 is out now! (120 points, 50 comments)
    8. [UPDATE] CAKE WALLET 3.1.1 with Monero v0.13.0.4 and other stuff (118 points, 32 comments)
    9. Cake Wallet - UPDATE! (108 points, 75 comments)
    10. CAKE WALLET - new version live now with NEW FEATURES! (102 points, 97 comments)
  6. 2042 points, 16 submissions: Rehrar
    1. Core Team Announcement (344 points, 45 comments)
    2. Project FOSS (212 points, 37 comments)
    3. Write down your seed (200 points, 93 comments)
    4. Bulletproof audit needs some more funding. Details in the comments. (170 points, 55 comments)
    5. Extremely thorough introduction to Monero by cypherperro. Take a look. (122 points, 18 comments)
    6. Defcon Monero Village Update and Summary (116 points, 22 comments)
    7. MRL Bulletproof audit FFS request (115 points, 30 comments)
    8. I, rehrar,went on a YouTube show to talk about Morono (113 points, 28 comments)
    9. Fund the fundings! (107 points, 16 comments)
    10. The anonimal appreciation thread! (107 points, 21 comments)
  7. 1978 points, 15 submissions: Vespco
    1. Edward Snowden on Bitcoin Interview 2018 (at 50 minutes, he says that a traceable public ledger is a bigger problem then scalability) (362 points, 88 comments)
    2. Putting this on my invoices seems like a good way for me to promote Monero, give my customers a discount, & help me acquire more Monero. (325 points, 101 comments)
    3. It's fun to be a part of the Monero economy! (179 points, 26 comments)
    4. Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law (178 points, 32 comments)
    5. Jeez, not much real conversation in here. Just junky news links. (129 points, 76 comments)
    6. The New York State Department of Financial Services just approved the trading of privacy-protecting cryptocurrency. | Coin Center (124 points, 11 comments)
    7. A good way to explain the importance of fungibility to the laymen: Bitcoin Roulette (99 points, 45 comments)
    8. Why I love Botnet & Browser Mining. (86 points, 39 comments)
    9. This needs more praise & attention: An Open Source, Client Side JS implementation that makes monero multisig fairly easy. Github link in comments. (82 points, 14 comments)
    10. Could we get even more cryptographers researching for Monero? (77 points, 31 comments)
  8. 1846 points, 14 submissions: SarangNoether
    1. Bulletproofs: let's raise some funds! (295 points, 94 comments)
    2. January monthly report from Sarang Noether (237 points, 39 comments)
    3. Bulletproofs: The Paper Strikes Back (153 points, 32 comments)
    4. July monthly report from Sarang Noether (142 points, 20 comments)
    5. March monthly report from Sarang Noether (129 points, 22 comments)
    6. August monthly report from Sarang Noether (122 points, 33 comments)
    7. February monthly report from Sarang Noether (119 points, 27 comments)
    8. Sarang is up for three more months! (107 points, 30 comments)
    9. October monthly report from Sarang Noether (102 points, 26 comments)
    10. September monthly report from Sarang Noether (99 points, 25 comments)
  9. 1470 points, 4 submissions: TheFuzzStone
    1. "I do not have any Bitcoin" (1182 points, 96 comments)
    2. Fluffypony at Consensus 2018 (134 points, 33 comments)
    3. Time for Monero "killers"! :-) (91 points, 34 comments)
    4. XMR.RU-report (March) (63 points, 14 comments)
  10. 1468 points, 5 submissions: philkode
    1. Overstock.com accepting Monero (and ETH, BCH, LTC, DASH) (499 points, 36 comments)
    2. Happy 4th Birthday Monero! 🎂🎉🎁 (455 points, 62 comments)
    3. Monero has been added to Debian unstable repo as of yesterday. (321 points, 52 comments)
    4. “Unhackable” BitFi wallet just got hacked (xpost /cryptocurrency) (130 points, 41 comments)
    5. X Wallet to App Store (Soon™) (63 points, 67 comments)

Top Commenters

  1. dEBRUYNE_1 (3762 points, 1243 comments)
  2. KnifeOfPi2 (3311 points, 347 comments)
  3. OsrsNeedsF2P (3189 points, 505 comments)
  4. fluffyponyza (3027 points, 272 comments)
  5. gingeropolous (2554 points, 320 comments)
  6. cryptochangements34 (2522 points, 261 comments)
  7. SarangNoether (2269 points, 185 comments)
  8. SamsungGalaxyPlayer (2108 points, 221 comments)
  9. john_alan (1993 points, 218 comments)
  10. smooth_xmr (1944 points, 279 comments)

Top Submissions

  1. Did John McAfee just sell all of his Monero?? by KnifeOfPi2 (1277 points, 107 comments)
  2. Paypal shares your personal data with over 600 companies! That's why we need Monero! by 0xf3e (1184 points, 146 comments)
  3. "I do not have any Bitcoin" by TheFuzzStone (1182 points, 96 comments)
  4. Found In Warsaw - Don't Buy Monero: Cryptocurrencies harm the banking system and can weaken the government by SecretApe (1114 points, 110 comments)
  5. Monero transactions are about to get 80% cheaper and faster. by WillMTB (1056 points, 120 comments)
  6. Bye bye ASICs by Swericor (874 points, 380 comments)
  7. Upvote if you would like to see @fluffyponyza as a guest on Joe Rogan Podcast by xmr_karnal (840 points, 44 comments)
  8. All right, my cat had kittens and I just realised one of them has Monero-like logo on its head 😂😂 by JNKO266 (817 points, 79 comments)
  9. Credit, where credit is due! by Experts-say (796 points, 53 comments)
  10. Yesterday I thought it might be fun to create some vintage crypto posters for a handful of coins. This was the first one I came up with. Bonus points if you spot similarities from an old movie by Beemoe4 (722 points, 67 comments)

Top Comments

  1. 495 points: mr670wl's comment in Found In Warsaw - Don't Buy Monero: Cryptocurrencies harm the banking system and can weaken the government
  2. 474 points: kieranc001's comment in Monero Zero looks like a scam, can you please confirm?
  3. 380 points: deleted's comment in Found In Warsaw - Don't Buy Monero: Cryptocurrencies harm the banking system and can weaken the government
  4. 356 points: deleted's comment in Ledger Hardware Wallet - Monero integration : some news #6
  5. 331 points: last_of_the_romans's comment in Monero transactions are about to get 80% cheaper and faster.
  6. 323 points: svenroy777's comment in "I do not have any Bitcoin"
  7. 311 points: deleted's comment in Did John McAfee just sell all of his Monero??
  8. 255 points: KnifeOfPi2's comment in Monero transactions are about to get 80% cheaper and faster.
  9. 237 points: live9free1or1die's comment in Banning privacy coins because of terrorism/drugs/laundering is like banning people from being allowed to have sex in privacy because pedophiles also like privacy.
  10. 203 points: fluffyponyza's comment in Botnets are Ruining the Integrity of the Monero Network
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Subreddit Stats: Monero top posts from 2018-01-03 to 2019-01-02 13:47 PDT

Period: 364.01 days
Submissions Comments
Total 994 49530
Rate (per day) 2.73 135.74
Unique Redditors 582 8080
Combined Score 161184 231580

Top Submitters' Top Submissions

  1. 5300 points, 33 submissions: dEBRUYNE_1
    1. Monero GUI 0.12.0.0 "Lithium Luna" Megathread - Download links, instructions for upgrading, guide on how to get started, and guides to resolve common issues (missing a transaction / zero balance, freezing / buggy GUI, transaction stuck as pending, and GUI using all bandwidth) (386 points, 833 comments)
    2. [Reminder] monero is not the appropriate place to discuss the BTC/BCH debate (319 points, 73 comments)
    3. General information regarding the upcoming scheduled network upgrade and a call for community action (305 points, 223 comments)
    4. GUI v0.12.2.0 released! (299 points, 243 comments)
    5. Announcement - Proof-of-Work tweak and a note on key reuse (295 points, 250 comments)
    6. GUI v0.12.3.0 (with direct Ledger support) released! (280 points, 386 comments)
    7. Bitfinex reduces Monero withdrawal fees from 0.04 to 0.0001 XMR! (272 points, 9 comments)
    8. Poloniex also reduces Monero withdrawal fees to 0.0001 XMR! (220 points, 17 comments)
    9. Preliminary information thread regarding the scheduled protocol upgrade of October 18 (214 points, 208 comments)
    10. CLI v0.12.3.0 released! (195 points, 78 comments)
  2. 4228 points, 24 submissions: OsrsNeedsF2P
    1. Saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need free speech because you have nothing to say. It's a right to everyone - It's a right to you, me, and even Mark Zuckerberg. (581 points, 138 comments)
    2. The official Fortnite Merch Store is accepting exclusively Monero as a cryptocurrency payment option... (445 points, 80 comments)
    3. Can we stop being assholes to newbies? (359 points, 94 comments)
    4. With all this Monero "is less untraceable than previously thought" FUD, let's all remember that huge fucking bounty of $$$ for anyone who can trace the origin of one of the devs transactions.. (343 points, 131 comments)
    5. Ever wanted to know how Monero is still around today? Well now you don't have to! This post has it all =D (297 points, 66 comments)
    6. Coinmarketcap shows Freewallet as a Monero wallet. Guys, whatever you do.. Don't use Freewallet. It's a scam. (286 points, 93 comments)
    7. SEC wants decentralized exchange creators to register as exchanges. Lol (182 points, 111 comments)
    8. "Please do your part in demanding exchanges to lower their XMR withdraw fee. I am submitting a complaint to Coinex who currently charge 0.04 XMR" - [x-post from /xmrtrader] (169 points, 43 comments)
    9. Can we get some appreciation for the people who maintain the Monero packages on Arch Linux? There are so many available, and every single one I've checked either make the package from source or validate the checksum. Amazing work <3 (156 points, 19 comments)
    10. [WARNING] DROPIL recently made a post announcing support for Monero. MOVE YOUR FUNDS if you used them!!! (119 points, 5 comments)
  3. 3954 points, 13 submissions: KnifeOfPi2
    1. Did John McAfee just sell all of his Monero?? (1277 points, 107 comments)
    2. We need to stop thinking about Monero as a “privacy coin.” (511 points, 200 comments)
    3. Selsta and I just completed the first Ledger-to-Ledger mainnet transactions ever. He sent me 0.1 XMR and I sent 0.4 XMR back. (482 points, 103 comments)
    4. Monero network hashrate just hit 1GH/s! (463 points, 166 comments)
    5. An upcoming Monero project: Render the entire blockchain. Here's a selection of blocks that we've done so far, in an early stage. (224 points, 31 comments)
    6. In Stunning Move, Bitmain Announces It's Launching A Doorstopper Business (193 points, 48 comments)
    7. Another red flag for X Wallet: The source code is incomplete. (190 points, 63 comments)
    8. MONERO IS DEAD! LONG LIVE MONERO! (155 points, 25 comments)
    9. Lithium Luna GUI released! (118 points, 66 comments)
    10. Cake Wallet - introducing Zendesk support! (100 points, 13 comments)
  4. 2421 points, 22 submissions: SamsungGalaxyPlayer
    1. Kasisto POS in 22 seconds (366 points, 76 comments)
    2. "Kudelski Security completed their [bulletproof] report. They found only a few minor issues that are trivial to correct, and no major issues." Overall, a huge win for Monero, bulletproofs, and privacy. Full report will be published soon. (338 points, 100 comments)
    3. Network upgrade scheduled for block 1544555 on 28 March (210 points, 56 comments)
    4. Fungibility is determined by the LOWEST common denominator of privacy, NOT the highest. Monero absolutely excels here. (103 points, 37 comments)
    5. [Discussion] Move to a Fixed Ringsize (102 points, 85 comments)
    6. The Monero Malware Response workgroup website is up! Direct people whose machines have been compromised here! (101 points, 22 comments)
    7. MoneroV: A Trap Laid for Monero Users? (93 points, 45 comments)
    8. Want to get the GUI point release faster? Help translate! (91 points, 18 comments)
    9. Introducing the Breaking Monero Series! (86 points, 26 comments)
    10. ShapeShift is moving to a membership model and will require personal information soon (83 points, 86 comments)
  5. 2295 points, 16 submissions: pinkphloid
    1. Cake Wallet - OPEN SOURCE - Here it is! (383 points, 167 comments)
    2. Our Monero wallet called CAKEWALLET for iOS is live! Please check the link to the Apple App Store below. (347 points, 379 comments)
    3. [MANDATORY UPDATE] Cake Wallet Version 3.0.9 - Network Upgrade Ready! (227 points, 19 comments)
    4. [UPDATE] Cake Wallet version 3.1.4, now with XMR.TO for exchanging XMR to BTC! (133 points, 15 comments)
    5. Cake Wallet - 10,000 unique downloads! (132 points, 29 comments)
    6. Thank for the positive feedback on Cake Wallet! (127 points, 62 comments)
    7. The new Cake Wallet Update version 3.0.1 is out now! (120 points, 50 comments)
    8. [UPDATE] CAKE WALLET 3.1.1 with Monero v0.13.0.4 and other stuff (118 points, 32 comments)
    9. Cake Wallet - UPDATE! (108 points, 75 comments)
    10. CAKE WALLET - new version live now with NEW FEATURES! (102 points, 97 comments)
  6. 2042 points, 16 submissions: Rehrar
    1. Core Team Announcement (344 points, 45 comments)
    2. Project FOSS (212 points, 37 comments)
    3. Write down your seed (200 points, 93 comments)
    4. Bulletproof audit needs some more funding. Details in the comments. (170 points, 55 comments)
    5. Extremely thorough introduction to Monero by cypherperro. Take a look. (122 points, 18 comments)
    6. Defcon Monero Village Update and Summary (116 points, 22 comments)
    7. MRL Bulletproof audit FFS request (115 points, 30 comments)
    8. I, rehrar,went on a YouTube show to talk about Morono (113 points, 28 comments)
    9. Fund the fundings! (107 points, 16 comments)
    10. The anonimal appreciation thread! (107 points, 21 comments)
  7. 1978 points, 15 submissions: Vespco
    1. Edward Snowden on Bitcoin Interview 2018 (at 50 minutes, he says that a traceable public ledger is a bigger problem then scalability) (362 points, 88 comments)
    2. Putting this on my invoices seems like a good way for me to promote Monero, give my customers a discount, & help me acquire more Monero. (325 points, 101 comments)
    3. It's fun to be a part of the Monero economy! (179 points, 26 comments)
    4. Honest Government Ad | Anti Encryption Law (178 points, 32 comments)
    5. Jeez, not much real conversation in here. Just junky news links. (129 points, 76 comments)
    6. The New York State Department of Financial Services just approved the trading of privacy-protecting cryptocurrency. | Coin Center (124 points, 11 comments)
    7. A good way to explain the importance of fungibility to the laymen: Bitcoin Roulette (99 points, 45 comments)
    8. Why I love Botnet & Browser Mining. (86 points, 39 comments)
    9. This needs more praise & attention: An Open Source, Client Side JS implementation that makes monero multisig fairly easy. Github link in comments. (82 points, 14 comments)
    10. Could we get even more cryptographers researching for Monero? (77 points, 31 comments)
  8. 1846 points, 14 submissions: SarangNoether
    1. Bulletproofs: let's raise some funds! (295 points, 94 comments)
    2. January monthly report from Sarang Noether (237 points, 39 comments)
    3. Bulletproofs: The Paper Strikes Back (153 points, 32 comments)
    4. July monthly report from Sarang Noether (142 points, 20 comments)
    5. March monthly report from Sarang Noether (129 points, 22 comments)
    6. August monthly report from Sarang Noether (122 points, 33 comments)
    7. February monthly report from Sarang Noether (119 points, 27 comments)
    8. Sarang is up for three more months! (107 points, 30 comments)
    9. October monthly report from Sarang Noether (102 points, 26 comments)
    10. September monthly report from Sarang Noether (99 points, 25 comments)
  9. 1470 points, 4 submissions: TheFuzzStone
    1. "I do not have any Bitcoin" (1182 points, 96 comments)
    2. Fluffypony at Consensus 2018 (134 points, 33 comments)
    3. Time for Monero "killers"! :-) (91 points, 34 comments)
    4. XMR.RU-report (March) (63 points, 14 comments)
  10. 1468 points, 5 submissions: philkode
    1. Overstock.com accepting Monero (and ETH, BCH, LTC, DASH) (499 points, 36 comments)
    2. Happy 4th Birthday Monero! 🎂🎉🎁 (455 points, 62 comments)
    3. Monero has been added to Debian unstable repo as of yesterday. (321 points, 52 comments)
    4. “Unhackable” BitFi wallet just got hacked (xpost /cryptocurrency) (130 points, 41 comments)
    5. X Wallet to App Store (Soon™) (63 points, 67 comments)

Top Commenters

  1. dEBRUYNE_1 (3762 points, 1243 comments)
  2. KnifeOfPi2 (3311 points, 347 comments)
  3. OsrsNeedsF2P (3189 points, 505 comments)
  4. fluffyponyza (3027 points, 272 comments)
  5. gingeropolous (2554 points, 320 comments)
  6. cryptochangements34 (2522 points, 261 comments)
  7. SarangNoether (2269 points, 185 comments)
  8. SamsungGalaxyPlayer (2108 points, 221 comments)
  9. john_alan (1993 points, 218 comments)
  10. smooth_xmr (1944 points, 279 comments)

Top Submissions

  1. Did John McAfee just sell all of his Monero?? by KnifeOfPi2 (1277 points, 107 comments)
  2. Paypal shares your personal data with over 600 companies! That's why we need Monero! by 0xf3e (1184 points, 146 comments)
  3. "I do not have any Bitcoin" by TheFuzzStone (1182 points, 96 comments)
  4. Found In Warsaw - Don't Buy Monero: Cryptocurrencies harm the banking system and can weaken the government by SecretApe (1114 points, 110 comments)
  5. Monero transactions are about to get 80% cheaper and faster. by WillMTB (1056 points, 120 comments)
  6. Bye bye ASICs by Swericor (874 points, 380 comments)
  7. Upvote if you would like to see @fluffyponyza as a guest on Joe Rogan Podcast by xmr_karnal (840 points, 44 comments)
  8. All right, my cat had kittens and I just realised one of them has Monero-like logo on its head 😂😂 by JNKO266 (817 points, 79 comments)
  9. Credit, where credit is due! by Experts-say (796 points, 53 comments)
  10. Yesterday I thought it might be fun to create some vintage crypto posters for a handful of coins. This was the first one I came up with. Bonus points if you spot similarities from an old movie by Beemoe4 (722 points, 67 comments)

Top Comments

  1. 495 points: mr670wl's comment in Found In Warsaw - Don't Buy Monero: Cryptocurrencies harm the banking system and can weaken the government
  2. 474 points: kieranc001's comment in Monero Zero looks like a scam, can you please confirm?
  3. 380 points: deleted's comment in Found In Warsaw - Don't Buy Monero: Cryptocurrencies harm the banking system and can weaken the government
  4. 356 points: deleted's comment in Ledger Hardware Wallet - Monero integration : some news #6
  5. 331 points: last_of_the_romans's comment in Monero transactions are about to get 80% cheaper and faster.
  6. 323 points: svenroy777's comment in "I do not have any Bitcoin"
  7. 311 points: deleted's comment in Did John McAfee just sell all of his Monero??
  8. 255 points: KnifeOfPi2's comment in Monero transactions are about to get 80% cheaper and faster.
  9. 237 points: live9free1or1die's comment in Banning privacy coins because of terrorism/drugs/laundering is like banning people from being allowed to have sex in privacy because pedophiles also like privacy.
  10. 203 points: fluffyponyza's comment in Botnets are Ruining the Integrity of the Monero Network
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Original post by rethink-your-strategy on Bitcointalk.org here
This post has been reformatted to share on Reddit. What once was common knowledge, is now gone. You want a quality history lesson? Share this like wildfire.
August 15, 2014, 08:15:37 AM

Preamble

I'd like to start off by stating categorically that the cryptography presented by CryptoNote is completely, entirely solid. It has been vetted and looked over by fucking clever cryptographers/developers/wizards such as gmaxwell. Monero have had a group of independent mathematicians and cryptographers peer-reviewing the whitepaper (their annotations are here, and one of their reviews is here), and this same group of mathematicians and cryptographers is now reviewing the implementation of the cryptography in the Monero codebase. Many well known Bitcoin developers have already had a cursory look through the code to establish its validity. It is safe to say that, barring more exotic attacks that have to be mitigated over time as they are invented/discovered, and barring a CryptoNote implementation making rash decisions to implement something that reduces the anonymity set, the CryptoNote currencies are all cryptographically unlinkable and untraceable.
Two other things I should mention. I curse a lot when I'm angry (and scams like this make me angry). Second, where used my short date format is day/month/year (smallest to biggest).
If you find this information useful, a little donation would go a long way. Bitcoin address is 1rysLufu4qdVBRDyrf8ZjXy1nM19smTWd.

The Alleged CryptoNote/Bytecoin Story

CryptoNote is a new cryptocurrency protocol. It builds on some of the Bitcoin founding principles, but it adds to them. There are aspects of it that are truly well thought through and, in a sense, quite revolutionary. CryptoNote claim to have started working on their project years ago after Bitcoin's release, and I do not doubt the validity of this claim...clearly there's a lot of work and effort that went into this. The story as Bytecoin and CryptoNote claim it to be is as follows:
They developed the code for the principles expressed in their whitepaper, and in April, 2012, they released Bytecoin. All of the copyright messages in Bytecoin's code are "copyright the CryptoNote Developers", so clearly they are one and the same as the Bytecoin developers. In December 2012, they released their CryptoNote v1 whitepaper. In September 2013, they released their CryptoNote v2 whitepaper. In November 2013, the first piece of the Bytecoin code was first pushed to Github by "amjuarez", with a "Copyright (c) 2013 amjuarez" copyright notice. This was changed to "Copyright (c) 2013 Antonio Juarez" on March 3rd, 2014. By this juncture only the crypto libraries had been pushed up to github. Then, on March 4th, 2014, "amjuarez" pushed the rest of the code up to github, with the README strangely referring to "cybernote", even though the code referred to "Cryptonote". The copyrights all pointed to "the Cryptonote developers", and the "Antonio Juarez" copyright and license file was removed. Within a few days, "DStrange" stumbled across the bytecoin.org website when trying to mine on the bte.minefor.co.in pool (a pool for the-other-Bytecoin, BTE, not the-new-Bytecoin, BCN), and the rest is history as we know it. By this time Bytecoin had had a little over 80% of its total emission mined.

Immediate Red Flags

The first thing that is a red flag in all of this is that nobody, and I mean no-fucking-body, is a known entity. "Antonio Juarez" is not a known entity, "DStrange" is not a known entity, none of the made up names on the Bytecoin website exist (they've since removed their "team" page, see below), none of the made up names on the CryptoNote website exist (Johannes Meier, Maurice Planck, Max Jameson, Brandon Hawking, Catherine Erwin, Albert Werner, Marec Plíškov). If they're pseudonyms, then say so. If they're real names, then who the fuck are they??? Cryptographers, mathematicians, and computer scientists are well known - they have published papers or at least have commented on articles of interest. Many of them have their own github repos and Twitter feeds, and are a presence in the cryptocurrency community.
The other immediate red flag is that nobody, and I mean no-fucking-body, had heard of Bytecoin. Those that had heard of it thought it was the crummy SHA-256 Bitcoin clone that was a flop in the market. Bytecoin's claim that it had existed "on the deep web" for 2 years was not well received, because not a single vendor, user, miner, drug addict, drug seller, porn broker, fake ID card manufacturer, student who bought a fake ID card to get into bars, libertarian, libertard, cryptographer, Tor developer, Freenet developer, i2p developer, pedophile, or anyone else that is a known person - even just known on the Internet - had ever encountered "Bytecoin" on Tor. Ever. Nobody.

Indisputable Facts

Before I start with some conjecture and educated guesswork, I'd like to focus on an indisputable fact that obliterates any trust in both Bytecoin's and CryptoNote's bullshit story. Note, again, that I do not doubt the efficacy of the mathematics and cryptography behind CryptoNote, nor do I think there are backdoors in the code. What I do know for a fact is that the people behind CryptoNote and Bytecoin have actively deceived the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency community, and that makes them untrustworthy now and in the future. If you believe in the fundamentals in CryptoNote, then you need simply use a CryptoNote-derived cryptocurrency that is demonstrably independent of CryptoNote and Bytecoin's influence. Don't worry, I go into this a little later.
So as discussed, there were these two whitepapers that I linked to earlier. Just in case they try remove them, here is the v1 whitepaper and the v2 whitepaper mirrored on Archive.org. This v1/v2 whitepaper thing has been discussed at length on the Bytecoin forum thread, and the PGP signature on the files has been confirmed as being valid. When you open the respective PDFs you'll notice the valid signatures in them:
signature in the v1 whitepaper
signature in the v2 whitepaper
These are valid Adobe signatures, signed on 15/12/2012 and 17/10/2013 respectively. Here's where it gets interesting. When we inspect this file in Adobe Acrobat we get a little more information on the signature
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Notice the bit that says "Signing time is from the clock on the signer's computer"? Now normally you would use a Timestamp Authority (TSA) to validate your system time. There are enough public, free, RFC 3161 compatible TSAs that this is not a difficult thing. CryptoNote chose not do this. But we have no reason to doubt the time on the signature, right guys? crickets
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See these references from the v1 whitepaper footnotes? Those two also appear in the v2 whitepaperth. Neither of those two footnotes refer to anything in the main body of the v1 whitepaper's text, they're non-existent (in the v2 whitepaper they are used in text). The problem, though, is that the Bitcointalk post linked in the footnote is not from early 2012 (proof screenshot is authentic: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=196259.0)
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May 5, 2013. The footnote is referencing a post that did not exist until then. And yet we are to believe that the whitepaper was signed on 12/12/2012! What sort of fucking fools do they take us for?
A little bit of extra digging validates this further. The document properties for both the v1 whitepaper as well as the v2 whitepaper confirms they were made in TeX Live 2013, which did not exist on 12/12/2012. The XMP properties are also quite revealing
XMP properties for the v1 whitepaper
XMP properties for the v2 whitepaper
According to that, the v1 whitepaper PDF was created on 10/04/2014, and the v2 whitepaper was created on 13/03/2014. And yet both of these documents were then modified in the past (when they were signed). Clearly the CryptoNote/Bytecoin developers are so advanced they also have a time machine, right?
Final confirmation that these creation dates are correct are revealed those XMP properties. The properties on both documents confirm that the PDF itself was generated from the LaTeX source using pdfTeX-1.40.14 (the pdf:Producer property). Now pdfTeX is a very old piece of software that isn't updated very often, so the minor version (the .14 part) is important.
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pdfTeX 1.40.14 pushed to source repo on Feb 14, 2014
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This version of pdfTeX was only pushed to the pdfTeX source repository on February 14, 2014, although it was included in a very early version of TeX Live 2013 (version 2013.20130523-1) that was released on May 23, 2013. The earliest mentions on the Internet of this version of pdfTeX are in two Stack Exchange comments that confirm its general availability at the end of May 2013 (here and here).
The conclusion we draw from this is that the CryptoNote developers, as clever as they were, intentionally deceived everyone into believing that the CryptoNote whitepapers were signed in 2012 and 2013, when the reality is that the v2 whitepaper was created in March, 2014, and the v1 whitepaper haphazardly created a month later by stripping bits out of the v2 whitepaper (accidentally leaving dead footnotes in).
Why would they create this fake v2 whitepaper in the first place? Why not just create a v1 whitepaper, or not even version it at all? The answer is simple: they wanted to lend credence and validity to the Bytecoin "2 years on the darkweb" claim so that everyone involved in CryptoNote and Bytecoin could profit from the 2 year fake mine of 82% of Bytecoin. What they didn't expect is the market to say "no thank you" to their premine scam.

And Now for Some Conjecture

As I mentioned earlier, the Bytecoin "team" page disappeared. I know it exists, because "AtomicDoge" referred to it as saying that one of the Bytecoin developers is a professor at Princeton. I called them out on it, and within a week the page had disappeared. Fucking cowards.
That was the event that triggered my desire to dig deeper and uncover the fuckery. As I discovered more and more oddities, fake accounts, trolling, and outright falsehoods, I wondered how deep the rabbit hole went. My starting point was DStrange. This is the account on Bitcointalk that "discovered" Bytecoin accidentally a mere 6 days after the first working iteration of the code was pushed to Github, purely by chance when mining a nearly dead currency on a tiny and virtually unheard of mining pool. He has subsequently appointed himself the representative of Bytecoin, or something similar. The whole thing is so badly scripted it's worse than a Spanish soap opera...I can't tell who Mr. Gonzales, the chief surgeon, is going to fuck next.
At the same time as DStrange made his "fuck me accidental discovery", another Bitcointalk account flared up to also "accidentally discover this weird thing that has randomly been discovered": Rias. What's interesting about both the "Rias" and "DStrange" accounts are their late 2013 creation date (October 31, 2013, and December 23, 2013, respectively), and yet they lay dormant until suddenly, out of the blue, on January 20th/21st they started posting. If you look at their early posts side by side you can even see the clustering: Rias, DStrange.
At any rate, the DStrange account "discovering" Bytecoin is beyond hilarious, especially with the Rias account chiming in to make the discovery seem natural. Knowing what we unmistakably do about the fake CryptoNote PDF dates lets us see this in a whole new light.
Of course, as has been pointed out before, the Bytecoin website did not exist in its "discovered" form until sometime between November 13, 2013 (when it was last captured as this random picture of a college girl) and February 25, 2014 (when it suddenly had the website on it as "discovered"). This can be confirmed by looking at the captures on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://bytecoin.org
The CryptoNote website, too, did not exist in its current form until after October 20, 2013, at which time it was still the home of an encrypted message project by Alain Meier, a founding member of the Stanford Bitcoin Group and co-founder of BlockScore. This, too, can be confirmed on Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://cryptonote.org
~It's hard to ascertain whether Alain had anything to do with CryptoNote or Bytecoin. It's certainly conceivable that the whitepaper was put together by him and other members of the Stanford Bitcoin Group, and the timeline fits, given that the group only formed around March 2013. More info on the people in the group can be found on their site, and determining if they played a role is something you can do in your own time.~
Update: Alain Meier posted in this thread, and followed it up with a Tweet, confirming that he has nothing to do with CryptoNote and all the related...stuff.

Batshit Insane

The Bytecoin guys revel in creating and using sockpuppet accounts. Remember that conversation where "Rias" asked who would put v1 on a whitepaper with no v2 out, and AlexGR said "a forward looking individual"? The conversation took place on May 30, and was repeated verbatim by shill accounts on Reddit on August 4 (also, screenshot in case they take it down).
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. Fucking batshit insane - who the fuck has time for that? Clearly they're pissy that nobody has fallen for their scam. Oh, and did I mention that all of these sockpuppets have a late January/early February creation date? Because that's not fucking obvious at all.
And let's not forget that most recently the sockpuppets claimed that multi-sig is "a new revolutionary technology, it was discovered a short time ago and Bytecoin already implemented it". What the actual fuck. If you think that's bad, you're missing out on the best part of all: the Bytecoin shills claim that Bytecoin is actually Satoshi Nakamoto's work. I'm not fucking kidding you. For your viewing pleasure...I present to you...the Bytecoin Batshit Insane Circus:
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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=512747.msg8354977#msg8354977
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Seriously. Not only is this insulting as fuck to Satoshi Nakamoto, but it's insulting as fuck to our intelligence. And yet the fun doesn't stop there, folks! I present to you...the centerpiece of this Bytecoin Batshit Insane Circus exhibit...
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Of course! How could we have missed it! The clues were there all along! The CryptoNote/Bytecoin developers are actually aliens! Fuck me on a pogostick, this is the sort of stuff that results in people getting committed to the loony bin.
One last thing: without doing too much language analysis (which is mostly supposition and bullshit), it's easy to see common grammar and spelling fuck ups. My personal favorite is the "Is it true?" question. You can see it in the Bytecoin thread asking if it's Satoshi's second project, in the Monero thread asking if the Monero devs use a botnet to fake demand, and in the Dashcoin thread confirming the donation address (for a coin whose only claim is that they copy Bytecoin perfectly, what the fuck do they need donations for??).

Layer After Layer

One of the things that happened soon after the Bytecoin "big reveal" was a string of forks popping up. The first was Bitmonero on April 18. Fantomcoin was launched May 6. Quazarcoin was launched May 8. HoneyPenny was announced on April 21, although only launched as Boolberry on May 17. duckNote was launched on May 30. MonetaVerde as launched June 17.
Now for some reason unbeknownst to anyone with who isn't a retarded fuckface, the Bytecoin code was pushed up to SourceForge on 08/04/2014 (the "Registered" date is at the bottom of the page). I have no idea why they did this, maybe it's to try and lend credence to their bullshit story (oh hey, look how old Bytecoin is, it's even on Sourceforge!)
Coincidentally, and completely unrelated (hurr durr), Quazarcoin, Fantomcoin, and Monetaverde are all also on Sourceforge. This gives us a frame of reference and a common link between them - it's quite clear that at least these three are run by the same team as CryptoNote. There is further anecdotal evidence that can be gathered by looking at the shill posts in the threads (especially the way the Moneteverda shills praise merge mining, in a way that is nearly fucking indistinguishable from the Bytecoin praise for multi-sig technology).
QuazarCoin is a special case and deserves a little attention. Let's start with OracionSeis, who launched it. He's well known on Bitcointalk for selling in-game currencies. In that same thread you'll notice this gem right at the end from Fullbuster: "Hey,OracionSeis is no longer under my use so please https://bitcointa.lk/threads/selling-most-of-the-game-currencies.301540/#post-5996983 come into this thread! thank you !" Click through to his new link and Fullbuster clarifies: "Hello, I may look new around here but i've sold my first account and created new one and i have an intention to keep the same services running as my first account did." So now that we know that OracionSeis is a fucking bought account, we can look at his actions a little more critically.
On May 7, just when Monero was being taken back by the community (see below), OracionSeis out of the blue decided to take it overelaunch it himself. This included a now-defunct website at monero.co.in, and a since-abandoned Github. The community pushed back hard, true to form, with hard-hitting statements such as "To reiterate, this is not the original devs, and thus not a relaunch. OP, fuck you for trying this. This should warrant a ban." A man after my own heart. OracionSeis caved and decided to rename it to...QuazarCoin, which launched on May 8. To recap: bought account, launched by trying to "relaunch" Monero, got fucked up, renamed it to QuazarCoin. Clearly and undeniably goes in our pile of fuckface coins.
The other three are a little more interesting. Let's start with ~fuckNote~duckNote. It's hard to say if duckNote is a CryptoNote/Bytecoin project. The addition of the HTML based wallet is a one-trick pony, a common thread among most of the CryptoNote/Bytecoin controlled coins, but that could also be the result of a not-entirely-retarded developer. Given the shill posts in the duckNote thread I'm going to flag it as possibly-controlled-by-the-fuckface-brigade.
And now we come to ~HoneyPenny~ ~MoneyPenny~ ~HoneyBerry~ ~Boolean~ Boolberry. This is an interesting one. This was "pre-announced" on April 21, although it was only released with the genesis block on May 17. This puts it fourth in line, after Fantomcoin and Quazarcoin, although fucktarded proponents of the shittily-named currency insist that it was launched on April 21 because of a pre-announcement. Fucking rejects from the Pool of Stupidity, some of them. At any rate, "cryptozoidberg" is the prolific coder that churned out a Keccak-derived PoW (Wild Keccak) in a month, and then proceeded to add completely fucking retarded features like address aliasing that requires you to mine a block to get an address (lulz) and will never cause any issues when "google" or "obama" or "zuckerberg" want their alias back. Namecoin gets around this by forcing you to renew every ~200 - 250 days, and besides, nobody is making payments to microsoft.bit. This aliasing system is another atypical one-trick-pony that the CryptoNote developers push out and claim is monumental and historical and amazing.
There's also the matter of cryptozoidberg's nickname. In the Bytecoin code there's the BYTECOIN_NETWORK identifiert, which according to the comment is "Bender's nightmare" (hurr durr, such funny, 11100111110001011011001210110110 has a 2 in it). Now this may be a little bit of conjecture, yo, but the same comment appears twice in the "epee" contributed library, once in the levin signature, and again in the portable storage signature. The contexts are so disconnected and different that it would be a fucking stretch to imagine that the same person did not write both of these. We can also rule out this being a Bytecoin-specific change, as the "Bender's nightmare" comments exist in the original epee library on githubw (which is completely unused anywhere on the planet except in Bytecoin, most unusual for a library that has any usefulness, and was first committed to github on February 9, 2014).
We know from the copyright that Andrey N. Sabelnikov is the epee author, and we can say with reasonable certainty that he was involved in Bytecoin's creation and is the dev behind Boolberry. Sabelnikov is quite famous - he wrote the Kelihos botnet code and worked at two Russian security firms, Microsoft took him to court for his involvement (accusing him of operating the botnet as well), and then settled with him out of court on the basis of him not running the botnet but just having written the code. Kelihos is a botnet that pumped out online pharmacy spam (you know the fucking annoying "Y-ou Ne3D Vi-4Gra!?" emails? those.) so it's good to see he transitioned from that to a cryptocurrency scam. Regardless of BBR's claim to have "fixed" CryptoNote's privacy (and the fake fight on Bitcointalk between the "Bytecoin devs" and cryptozoidberg), it's clear that the link between them is not transparent. BBR is either the brainchild of a spam botnet author that worked on Bytecoin, or it's the CryptoNote developers trying to have one currency distanced from the rest so that they have a claim for legitimacy. I think it's the second one, and don't want to enter into a fucking debate about it. Make up your own mind.
Which brings us to the oddest story of the bunch: Bitmonero. It's pretty clear, given its early launch date and how unfamiliar anyone was with creating a genesis block or working in completely undocumented code, that thankful_for_today is/was part of the CryptoNote developers. He made a fatal error, though: he thought (just like all the other cryptocurrencies) that being "the dev" made him infallible. Ya know what happened? He tried to force his ideas, the community politely said "fuck you", and Bitmonero was forked into Monero, which is leading the pack of CryptoNote-based coins today. Let me be perfectly fucking clear: it doesn't matter that the Bytecoin/CryptoNote developers know their code and can push stuff out, and it doesn't matter that Sabelnikov can shovel bullshit features into his poorly named cryptocurrency, and it doesn't matter that Monetaverde is "green" and has "merged mining". Nobody working behind these cryptocurrencies is known in the cryptocurrency community, and that alone should be a big fucking red flag. 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.
And, as we saw, this has fucking infuriated the Bytecoin/CryptoNote developers. They're so angry they waste hours and hours with their Reddit accounts trawling the Monero sub-reddit, for what? Nobody has fallen for their scam, and after my revelation today nobody fucking will. Transparency wins, everything else is bullshit.
As pointed out by canonsburg, when the Bytecoin/CryptoNote people realised they'd lost the fucking game, they took a "scorched earth" approach. If they couldn't have the leading CryptoNote coin...they'd fucking destroy the rest by creating a shit-storm of CryptoNote coins. Not only did they setup a thread with "A complete forking guide to create your own CryptoNote currency", but they even have a dedicated website with a fuckton of JavaScript. Unfortunately this plan hasn't worked for them, because they forgot that nobody gives a fuck, and everyone is going to carry on forking Bitcoin-based coins because of the massive infrastructure and code etc. that works with Bitcoin-based coins.
There are a bunch of other useless CryptoNote coins, by the way: Aeon, Dashcoin, Infinium-8, OneEvilCoin. We saw earlier that Dashcoin is probably another CryptoNote developer driven coin. However, this entire group is not really important enough, nor do they have enough potential, for me to give a single fuck, so make up your own mind. New CryptoNote coins that pop up should be regarded with the utmost caution, given the bullshit capabilities that we've already seen.

All Tied Up in a Bow

I want to cement the relationship between the major CryptoNote shitcoins. I know that my previous section had a lot of conjecture in it, and there's been some insinuation that I'm throwing everyone under the bus because I'm raging against the machine. That's not my style. I'm more of a Katy Perry fan..."you're going to hear me roar". There were some extra links I uncovered during my research, and I lacked the time to add it to this post. Thankfully a little bit of sleep and a can of Monster later have given me the a chance to add this. Let's start with an analysis of the DNS records of the CN coins.
If we look at the whois and DNS records for bytecoin.org, quazarcoin.org, fantomcoin.org, monetaverde.org, cryptonote.org, bytecoiner.org, cryptonotefoundation.org, cryptonotestarter.org, and boolberry.com, we find three common traits, from not-entirely-damming to oh-shiiiiiiit:
  1. There's a lot of commonality with the registrar (NameCheap for almost all of them), the DNS service (HurricaneElectric's Free DNS or NameCheap's DNS), and with the webhost (LibertyVPS, QHosteSecureFastServer.com, etc.)
  2. All of the CN domains use WhoisGuard or similar private registration services.
  3. Every single domain, without exception, uses Zoho for email. The only outlier is bitmonero.org that uses Namecheap's free email forwarding, but it's safe to disregard this as the emails probably just forward to the CryptoNote developers' email.
The instinct may be to disregard this as a fucking convenient coincidence. But it isn't: Zoho used to be a distant second go Google Apps, but has since fallen hopelessly behind. Everyone uses Google Apps or they just use mail forwarding or whatever. With the rest of the points as well, as far-fetched as the link may seem, it's the combination that is unusual and a dead giveaway of the common thread. Just to demonstrate that I'm not "blowing shit out of proportion" I went and checked the records for a handful of coins launched over the past few months to see what they use.
darkcoin.io: mail: Namecheap email forwarding, hosting: Amazon AWS, open registration through NameCheap monero.cc: mail: mail.monero.cc, hosting: behind CloudFlare, open registration through Gandi xc-official.com: mail: Google Apps, hosting: MODX Cloud, hidden registration (DomainsByProxy) through GoDaddy blackcoin.io: mail: Namecheap email forwarding, hosting: behind BlackLotus, open registration through NameCheap bitcoindark.org: mail: no MX records, hosting: Google User Content, open registration through Wix viacoin.org: mail: mx.viacoin.org, hosting: behind CloudFlare, closed registration (ContactPrivacy) through Hostnuke.com neutrinocoin.org: mail: HostGator, hosting: HostGator, open registration through HostGator
There's no common thread between them. Everyone uses different service providers and different platforms. And none of them use Zoho.
My next check was to inspect the web page source code for these sites to find a further link. If you take a look at the main CSS file linked in the source code for monetaverde.org, fantomcoin.org, quazarcoin.org, cryptonotefoundation.org, cryptonote-coin.org, cryptonote.org, bitmonero.org, and bytecoiner.org, we find a CSS reset snippet at the top. It has a comment at the top that says "/* CSS Reset /", and then where it resets/sets the height it has the comment "/ always display scrollbars */". Now, near as I can find, this is a CSS snipped first published by Jake Rocheleau in an article on WebDesignLedger on October 24, 2012 (although confusingly Google seems to think it appeared on plumi.de cnippetz first, but checking archive.org shows that it was only added to that site at the beginning of 2013). It isn't a very popular CSS reset snippet, it got dumped in a couple of gists on Github, and translated and re-published in an article on a Russian website in November, 2012 (let's not go full-blown conspiritard and assume this links "cryptozoidberg" back to this, he's culpable enough on his own).
It's unusual to the point of being fucking impossible for one site to be using this, let alone a whole string of supposedly unrelated sites. Over the past few years the most popular CSS reset scripts have been Eric Meyer's "Reset CSS", HTML5 Doctor CSS Reset, Yahoo! (YUI 3) Reset CSS, Universal Selector ‘’ Reset, and Normalize.css, none of which contain the "/ CSS Reset /" or "/ always display scrollbars */" comments.
You've got to ask yourself a simple question: at what point does the combination of all of these fucking coincidental, completely unusual elements stop being coincidence and start becoming evidence of a real, tenable link? Is it possible that bytecoin.org, quazarcoin.org, fantomcoin.org, monetaverde.org, cryptonote.org, bytecoiner.org, cryptonotefoundation.org, cryptonotestarter.org, and boolberry.com just happen to use similar registrars/DNS providers/web hosts and exactly the fucking same wildly unpopular email provider? And is it also possible that monetaverde.org, fantomcoin.org, quazarcoin.org, cryptonotefoundation.org, cryptonote-coin.org, cryptonote.org, and bytecoin.org just happen to use the same completely unknown, incredibly obscure CSS reset snippet? It's not a conspiracy, it's not a coincidence, it's just another piece of evidence that all of these were spewed out by the same fucking people.

The Conclusion of the Matter

Don't take the last section as any sort of push for Monero. I think it's got potential (certainly much more than the other retarded "anonymous" coins that "developers" are popping out like street children from a cheap ho), and I hold a bit of XMR for shits and giggles, so take that tacit endorsement with a pinch of fucking salt.
The point is this: Bytecoin's 82% premine was definitely the result of a faked blockchain. CryptoNote's whitepaper dates were purposely falsified to back up this bullshit claim. Both Bytecoin and CryptoNote have perpetuated this scam by making up fake website data and all sorts. They further perpetuate it using shill accounts, most notably "DStrange" and "Rias" among others.
They launched a series of cryptocurrencies that should be avoided at all cost: Fantomcoin, Quazarcoin, and Monetaverde. They are likely behind duckNote and Boolberry, but fuck it, it's on your head if you want to deal with scam artists and botnet creators.
They developed amazing technology, and had a pretty decent implementation. They fucked themselves over by being fucking greedy, being utterly retarded, being batshit insane, and trying to create legitimacy where there was none. They lost the minute the community took Monero away from them, and no amount of damage control will save them from their own stupidity.
I expect there to be a fuck-ton of shills posting in this thread (and possibly a few genuine supporters who don't know any better). If you want to discuss or clarify something, cool, let's do that. If you want to have a protracted debate about my conjecture, then fuck off, it's called conjecture for a reason you ignoramus. I don't really give a flying fuck if I got it right or wrong, you're old and ugly enough to make up your own mind.
tl;dr - CryptoNote developers faked dates in whitepapers. Bytecoin faked dates in fake blockchain to facilitate an 82% premine, and CryptoNote backed them up. Bytecoin, Fantomcoin, Quazarcoin, Monetaverde, Dashcoin are all from the same people and should be avoided like the fucking black plague. duckNote and Boolberry are probably from them as well, or are at least just fucking dodgy, and who the fuck cares anyway. Monero would have been fucking dodgy, but the community saved it. Make your own mind up about shit and demand that known people are involved and that there is fucking transparency. End transmission.
Just a reminder that if you found this information useful, a little donation would go a long way. Bitcoin address is 1rysLufu4qdVBRDyrf8ZjXy1nM19smTWd.
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The thee pillars of Monero

Wikipedia has "pillars", foundational commitments which guide its develoments. Similarly, Monero has three pillars.
The three pillars of Monero are privacy, decentralization and scalability.
Now what does it means?

Privacy

Monero is true electronic cash. With Monero, you can know that a transaction occured, but not whence, how much and whither, whilst it is getting increasingly easy to trace Bitcoin (mixers, tumblers… do not work). See this illustration on how it positions compared to Bitcoin and this animation on how it works. Monero is a cryptocurrency that is based on the CryptoNote protocol and reference code, and that seeks to provide absolute transactional privacy (fluffypony).
But Monero is more than a currency. Its official slogan is "secure, private, untraceable" for a reason. Other transactions than the monetary ones benefit from it. You may not want anyone to know you signed this contract. You may not want the forthcoming blockchain-powered internet of things cloud around you to be accessible by anyone, and this requires an opaque blockchain, that Monero provides.
We hired academic cryptographers to review and improve the security of Monero and started an external audit as well. Even Bitcoin developers and independent cryptographers (Andrew Poelstra/andytoshi, Gregory Maxwell, Nicolas Courtois) speak high of Monero and Cryptonote.
Finally, security is a chain as strong as its weakest link. What is privacy of the transaction worth if your IP is revealed? This is why we are teaming up with Privacy Solutions to have an i2p router implemented in Monero. IP obfuscation, amount obfuscation, recipient obfuscation, sender obfuscation.
May I remind everyone that privacy is more than drugs and illegality? Are you ready to give everyone (EVERYONE) read access to your bank account? Would your like your ex-wife, your son, your boss, your neigbour or (particularly if you are a company) your competitor to know how much money you have, where it comes from and what you doing with it, forever (and no, multiples addresses or mixers or tumblers just don't work)? Would you like your landlord to know that you just got some money, so s/he can raise the rent? Privacy is also making it possible for journalists fighting for the freedom of press to do their jobs when there are in a dictatorial (or not-so-dictatorial) country. This is also about not being incriminated because your money was tainted (two transactions before, it went from drug dealing, for instance).Countless studies showed that people behave differently when they know they might be watched.
As tacotime (a core team member) said back in April, when Monero was only one week old, Fuck the pump and dumps, we're here to create something with value that people can use.

Decentralization

Despite being decentralised at heart, cryptocurrencies are increasingly centralised. Webwallets, exchanges, pool mining and cloud mining, centralised seedings or masternodes… All of this is susceptible to attacks (both technical or legal - remember that "legal" doesn't necessarily means "legitimate"). Whilst Monero is decentralised mixing.
By contrast, we are trying hard to keep Monero decentralised. Our domain names for the most parts are meant to be resistant to such attacks (gun.io on choosing domain names and registrars). The core team is composed of both public faces (myself and Riccardo Spagni/fluffypony) and private faces (the other core team members) located on various continents with widely different timezones, making sure that core devs are avaialble 24/7. This extends to technology too. When implementing something, we keep in mind how it will affect decentralisation. We recently released the first Monero torrent and we also created an open standard for simpler sending of cryptocurrencies, OpenAlias.
The smart mining forthcoming feature will allow transparent CPU mining on your own computer, far from the de facto centralisation of mining farms and pool mining. We intend to pursue Satoshi's original vision of a true p2p currency. "Get millions of users doing that and it will drive down the value of mining to where neither botnets nor professional/industrial miners will bother, and Satoshi's original vision of a true p2p currency will be realized." (smooth).

Scalability

Monero is meant to stay. Long. This means it must be able to be adopted by anyone, that anyone can use it. Open-source is a given and smart mining participates of it too. But beyond this, we chose a currency code a.ka. ticker symbol (XMR) that adheres to the international monetary standard ISO 4217. We are doing our best to follow technological best practices. Recently, we worked with Kitware to have our Cmake tool adhere to the best practices and we will soon transition to semantic versioning (semver.org). Similarly, the block time, mixin count… are designed (and sometimes redesigned) with long-term scalability in mind.
More importantly maybe, Monero doesn't suffer from some of the inherent flaws of many orther cryptocurrencies. Monero is fair-launched and doesn't have a 1 MB blocksize which limits the ultimate amount of transaction per day. Today, it doesn't matter much, but tomorrow when Monero will be much more popular, this will be instrumental in ensuring that Monero can continue to grow - this is the whole point of scalability: it may not matter today, but it does for tomorrow when it will be so hard to change it.
The same consideration are given to the emission curve. We believe (and we are not the only ones), that relying only on transaction fees won't be enough of an incentive for miners (remember: the core of the blockchain is to rely on an economic incentive, because it is not possible to solve the Byzantine Generals' problem with math alone). This is why Monero implements a "tail emission" that will kick off once the main emission is over, in less than eight years.
Scalability is not only about technology. It also about making sure that everyone gets their side of the bargain or else it will be rejected. That's why Monero is also optionally transparent. This means that, on a completely voluntary basis, one can give read access to someone else. Quoting fluffypony on reddit: "A view key can be used to reveal all transactions for an account. This means that companies could still be audited, charities could make their accounts publicly visible, and parents could see what their kids are spending the money on. Additionally, details of a transaction can be revealed via a similar mechanism on a per-transaction basis."
This is also to increase legitimacy that the Monero Economy Workgroup (disclaimer: I am an executive of the MEW) was created (what is MEW? - join MEW). The MEW takes decision (that, granted, the core team is not bound to accept, but refusing a widely adopted decision would cause turmoil) and since the MEW is meant to represent the will of most holders, it will increase legitimacy: something decided by the MEW is something most holders are willing to do. The debate on the emission curve is a perfect example: the MEW unanimously decided to not change the emission curve, and confidence went back immediately. Consistent confidence is part of scalability.
Security, decentralization, scalability. These are the three pillars of Monero. The vision of Monero is to be as future-proof as possible.
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Quantum Conspiracy

This is not reality changing quantum computing meta-science / Mandela Effect / parallel universes bull.
The following is at least trying to be factual
I some information for you of which you may not be aware, as well as speculation related to such events.
Here is the gist...
TIMELINE
May 11th: WannaCry ransomware was released into the public.
May 15th: A small flurry of news articles on websites about quantum computation not effecting RSA encryption showed up.
June 13th: IOTA is added to the bitfinex exchange.
June 14th: Quantum market value passes 5 billion. Through D-Wave and IBM-Q
June 25th: The Petya ransomware released.
June 27th: A second test revision of the Petya ransomware released as NotPetya.
July 3rd or 4th: We will see. (This is only speculation.)
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
The WannaCry ransomware is a private sector project disguised as a ransomware. The Petya ransomware is a revision of this project with some fixes re-released for testing. NotPeta was released shortly after, so that it was not as noticeable over the current threat.
IOTA is a cryptocurrency that you should probably put some money into, it will be important later. It is not generated via mining. It is does not have a blockchain. It is quantum computationally proof by design. It is currently worth more than 1 billion USD, becoming the 8th largest traded cryptocurrency in 14 days.
The major project is a programming project with the following goals.
@ This might be an attempt by combined forces to create a viral remote administration tool.
@ The active function of this secret tool would be primarily benign malicious. With goal to install this on as many internet of things devices, cellphones, and computers as possible in order to steal an unnoticeable amount of CPU and GPU resources (1%), from computers that stay idle for more than 6 hours. Effectively a world wide zombie botnet.
@ Here is the list of currently involved entities: TPTB, Google, D-Wave Systems, Microsoft, Intel, IBM, CERN, Cisco, CERT, a counter-collective group of approximately 2,200 people with backgrounds in information security, cryptography, mathematics, and quantum physics.
REVELATIONS
This is very important so listen.
@ I feel this is to use this computing power, piping it into the Google network in order to mask the internet traffic as legitimate.
@ These computing resources are being used to assist Google Deepmind in order to finish a computation project that when successful will result in artificially generated design for a cold operating quantum computer, possibly through carbon computation.
@ IOTA may have known about this project in advance. Developing a quantum proof cryptocurrency in order to capitalize from the downfall of other cryptomarkets. IOTA also is working in a very short timescale, implementing smart contracts to automate transactions over internet of things devices, presumably to prevent them from becoming idle.
@ After the project is complete, I assume TPTB will be able to effectively break nearly all encryption, and then all hell will break lose.
CAVEATS
@ I am not saying you should not drop all your bitcoin, because the timescale for this will be a few years. However, just keep in mind I feel this coming. If it is, there is nothing we can do.
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