Charlie Lee
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About
Computer scientist and cryptocurrency expert who founded Litecoin. He is also the managing director of the Litecoin Foundation. His satoshilite Twitter account, which has accumulated 1 million followers, features information on cryptocurrency and the global economy. He is the former Director Engineering at Coinbase. He spent ten years at Google early in his career.
Before Fame
In 2000, he graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a BA and an MA in Computer Science.
Trivia
He did not intend for Litecoin to rival Bitcoin but rather it to be used for smaller transactions than Bitcoin.
Family Life
He was born in Africa but moved to the U.S. when he was 13.
Associated With
Larry Page is also a computer scientist, as well as co-founder of Google.
