Charlie Lee

Creator of Litecoin (2011), former Coinbase engineering lead, managing director of the Litecoin Foundation.

Litecoin

Charlie Lee announced Litecoin on Bitcointalk in October 2011 as coblee^[1]. He later ran engineering at Coinbase and is managing director of the Litecoin Foundation^[2].

Views

On Bitcoin Takeover S15 E34 he said a bigger block is still good up to a point, while warning about the trade-offs^[3]. He has also said he was disappointed that Lightning did not take off as much as he expected^[4].

On Bitcoin Takeover

Episodes with Charlie Lee as a guest, from the show's feed (bitcoin-takeover.com/audio/feed.xml).

• S15 E34: Charlie Lee on Privacy & MWEB (Mimble Wimble Extension Block) 29 Apr 2024 · ▶ mp3 [archived]^[8]
• S15 E30: Charlie Lee on Lightning & Litecoin 16 Apr 2024 · ▶ mp3 [archived]^[7]
• S11 E5: Charlie Lee on Mimble Wimble Extension Blocks (MWEB) 07 Jun 2022 · ▶ mp3 [archived]^[6]
• S7 E8: Charlie Lee on Video Games, Star Wars & Investing 25 Dec 2020 · ▶ mp3 [archived]^[5]

References

1. primarycoblee, “[ANN] Litecoin - a lite version of Bitcoin. Launched!”, Bitcointalk topic 47417 (opened 9 Oct 2011; launch noted as 13 Oct 2011 03:00 GMT) [archived]
2. btkS15 E30 show notes: Charlie Lee on Lightning, Litecoin & Why Payment Coins Survived [archived]
3. episodeS15 E34: Charlie Lee — “a bigger block is still good”, with trade-offs▶ listen at 9:32timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
4. episodeS15 E34: Charlie Lee — disappointed that Lightning did not take off as expected▶ listen at 4:43timestamp transcript-derived, pending a listen [archived]
5. episodeS7 E8: Charlie Lee on Video Games, Star Wars & Investing [archived]
6. episodeS11 E5: Charlie Lee on Mimble Wimble Extension Blocks (MWEB) [archived]
7. episodeS15 E30: Charlie Lee on Lightning & Litecoin [archived]
8. episodeS15 E34: Charlie Lee on Privacy & MWEB (Mimble Wimble Extension Block) [archived]
9. btkFork Wars: the block size war timeline (Bitcoin Takeover) [archived]

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