Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Litecoin founder Charles Lee

Charles Lee isn’t nearly as invisible as Satoshi Nakamoto, but he’s doing his best. The creator of Litecoin, the second most successful cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, was happy to speak with CoinDesk, but he didn’t want to reveal too much about himself. What we know for sure about the California-based software engineer is that he graduated from a leading technology-focused university in 1999, and is currently working for an Internet software company. CoinDesk knows who that is – and the odd reference can be found online by those who know where to look - but Lee really doesn’t like to talk about it. 

The six-person team behind the altcoin is equally secretive. “They are people that I talked to over the years on IRC and other forums,” Lee says of the team, which communicates with the broader community through chat rooms and message boards. “Some of them don't want their identities known.”



 
“People are always afraid of government intervention,” he says. “Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost overturn governments.”


Lee heard about Bitcoin two years ago, and almost immediately understood the significance of the idea. “I definitely think that what the Internet did to information, cryptocurrency will do to currency,” he says. Like many digital coin enthusiasts, he started mining bitcoin before getting into the altcoin scene. 
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