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Bytecoin (cryptocurrency)
{{Infobox software
| title = BYTECOIN (BCN)
| logo = Bytecoin logo.svg
| author = PACIFIC_SKYLINE, AMJUAREZ and others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bytecoin.org/teto-team/|title=Teto-Team|website=Bytecoin: private secure financial system|language=en|access-date=2017-10-12}}</ref>
| released = 2014
| programming language = ะก++
| platform = Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD
| genre = Payment system
| website = [https://bytecoin.org bytecoin.org]
}}
[[File:Forks-tree-fixed.png|thumb|Forks tree for CryptoNote coins. February, 2016]]'''Bytecoin''' ([[ticker symbol]] BCN<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cryptgap.com/coins/184|title=Bytecoin|website=Cryptgap: Cryptocurrency Reviews|language=en|access-date=2018-03-12}}</ref>) is the first [[cryptocurrency]] based on the [[CryptoNote]] technology with an [[open source]] code designed for anonymous cash settlement. BCN protects the user's privacy with impassive and anonymous transactions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bytecoin.org/info/|title=What is Bytecoin?|publisher=Bytecoin: private secure financial system|access-date=2017-10-12}}</ref>

This is a completely independent currency, developing separately from [[Bitcoin]] and its [[fork|forks]]. The basis for the creation of Bytecoin was the unique [[CryptoNote]] technology.

== History ==
Bytecoin (BCN) was released to the public on March 2014. Developers of the cryptocurrency had faked its discovery in 2014, claiming it was up and running from 2012. The dated signatures in the whitepaper were later proven to be fake<ref>{{cite web|title=Blowing the lid off the CryptoNote/Bytecoin scam|url=https://cryptoblog.tech/is-bytecoin-a-scam/|website=Bitcoinalk}}</ref>. By the time the 'discovery' took place, a little over 80% of Bytecoin's maximum supply had already been mined. 

Since the launch, several improvements have been made, including multi-valued transactions and several security updates. In 2013, the original implementation of [[CryptoNote]] [[Java]] was rewritten using [[C++]]. As of 2015, Bytecoin has been forked more than 25 times. <ref>{{cite news|title=Bytecoin|url=https://cointelegraph.com/news/bytecoin|agency=Cointelegraph|date=24 May 2015}}</ref> Bytecoin [[blockchain]] contains additional information not directly related to remittances: several bloc(contracted; show full)
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