I think it's because there used to be a really bad alt-coin called Bytecoin, and the stigma remains to this day.
I was assuming the entire time that "bytecoin" was referring to the group that literally copied the bitcoin sourcecode entirely, and left it at that.
What is "the new bytecoin" then that you are supposedly referring to?
It seems very naive of the "new bytecoin team" to adopt a name that has been associated with fraudulant activity in the past.
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