Litecoin creator Charles Lee has left Google to work at Coinbase
Charles Lee, the founder of Litecoin, has left his job at Google after being signed full-time by Coinbase. He started this week. The California-based coder and MIT graduate decided to work for the digital wallet company after six years at Google, where he worked on projects including YouTube, ChromeOS, and Google Play Games. Coinbase isn't the first bitcoin company to employ someone from a cryptocurrency's core development team. BitPay hired Bitcoin core developerJeff Garzik in May. That hire, however, was designed to get the former Red Hat engineer working full-time on bitcoin, which had....
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Litecoin is the second most popular cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. Litecoin's advantages over Bitcoin include its faster block confirmation times and scrypt hashing algorithm (to prevent ASIC mining). But will Litecoin ever see the massive success Bitcoin has seen and maybe even surpass it? Here's what Litecoin creator Charles Lee has to say on the matter.
There are few people, who determined the history of cryptocurrencies and can predict the evolution of the Blockchain and projects of next generation in Bitcoin space. Charlie Lee is one of them. He is a creator of Litecoin who’s being involved with cryptocurrencies since 2011. As such his knowledge in the field is extensive.. Born in the Ivory Coast and grown up in the US to parents from Shanghai Charlie was among the first Chinese people to go to Africa in the 1960s. After growing up in Africa, he went to the US for his studies, and after college, he found jobs working for Google. Charlie....
We recently had the opportunity to interview Charlie Lee at the Amsterdam conference. Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin and recently joined the Coinbase team after working as an engineer for Google. He has earned a Master’s degree in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. Litecoin has often been referred to as the “silver” of the cryptocurrency world for being second only to Bitcoin in popularity and value. Bitcoinist: Okay, so here we are with Charlie Lee. Thank you for taking the time. Charlie Lee: Thank you. My first question would be: what would you suggest to those....
Charlie Lee, the much celebrated creator of the silver-cryptocurrency Litecoin, recently went into a Twitter argument with a random user named Darth Camel, who accused him of neglecting Litecoin in terms of development. In his response, Lee said that their cryptocurrency does not need development right now. "Adding gimmicks does not help a currency succeed," Lee made his point. "Liquidity, merchants, and user does." Darth Camel though didn't stop there. He retaliated by saying that Lee shows no love, and attention towards the very cryptocurrency he created. In his kick-starter tweet, Camel....
Litecoin, the world's third largest cryptocurrency ($ 137,703,781 in marketcap) created in October 2011 by Former Google Engineer and current Coinbase Director of Engineering Charles Lee was popular among digital currency miners due to its implementation of a unique ASIC resistant proof of work algorithm called s-crypt (scrypt). ASIC stands for Application Specific Integrated Circuit and is used by miners to verify hashed transactions on litecoin and bitcoin networks. Due to the network's resistance to ASIC products, the number of miners rapidly increased and litecoin thrived for the past....