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Bytecoin (cryptocurrency)
{{Infobox software
| title = BYTECOIN (BCN)
| logo = Bytecoin logo.svg
| author = PACIFIC_SKYLINE, AMJUAREZ and others.
| 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 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.

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

== History ==
Like Bitcoin, tThe identities of the Bytecoin (BCN) developers are not known. Bytecoin was released to the public on March 2014. Developers of the cryptocurrency had faked its discovery in 2014{{Citation needed}}, 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 pla(contracted; show full)
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