Charlie Lee is a well-known figure in the field of cryptocurrencies. He is the creator of Litecoin, which is often considered the silver to Bitcoin’s gold. Lee, a computer scientist by training, developed Litecoin in 2011 as a spinoff of Bitcoin, with some key differences. He designed Litecoin to have a faster block generation time and to use a different cryptographic algorithm (scrypt instead of SHA-256).
Before working on Litecoin, Lee worked at Google on projects such as YouTube and Chrome OS. He later worked as the Director of Engineering at Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world.