http://lm.i2p/nojs/knowledge/monero-history
At that point, it was a race to see who could fork Bytecoin, clean up the code, and be the first ‘non-scam’ version to market, in order to gain a first mover advantage. Bitmonero On April 9th, 2014, another previously unheard of entity named thankful_for_today posted on the BitcoinTalk forums, announcing the launch of the first Bytecoin fork, called Bitmonero.