You're still safe if the port is closed.

For out of sync, it's because there hasn't been a block in 15 mins, just keep mining

No doesn't matter, I made those up, no clue what default is

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Thanks for the help. Much appreciated.

hello all 

could you help me ?
I cannot get to http://forum.bytecoin.in/ nor http://www.bytecoin.in

last week I lost 26 LTC in ugly scam of LTC-wallet.com and it still hurts.
Therefore I would like to know, Can we trust this project?
When it was released in the time of BTC peak valuation to USD and with name almost same as bitcoin?
     Does someone from you know personally the founders and developers?     
Are main intentions of existence of this project good?
Is it not only greed of certain individual/s who would like to squeeze every little penny from bitcoin's April bubble for their enrichment?
e.g. https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/174640.msg2184623#msg2184623

I apologize if my post would offend someone but I just cannot find many trustworthy information about this project on web right now.

One of the bitcoin developers downloaded the bytecoin source and compared it with the reference bitcoin source.  The only differences were the bitcoin --> bytecoin change, and the prefix "1" --> "8". 

Presumably, it acts just exactly like bitcoin.  April Fool's joke or not, it is technically viable and operational.

"Bytecoin died, or not to died, that is the question".
Sucks, I was left with 1000+ BTE.

bytecoin-0.8.1-win32.zip (9.2 MB)
https://mega.co.nz/#!0YNlHbRK!UU6WpQTJ_o2x94BnQ2Gm-B8emPNnSdnL1JvWt1opcKU

It's synced but will produce errors when it can't find a block in so many minutes. Or maybe you can't find nodes. Mines been off for a while