Bytecoin project was created in 2012 . It is a private decentralized cryptocurrency with an open source code.
The primary objective for this project is to protect users privacy from end to end. It use an egalitarian proof of work which allows people to mine using basic GPUs and CPUs. This results into a very fast system. BCN the coin of bytecoin is one of the coin that can be mined with a PC rather than the ASIC rig.