Litecoin Foundation

Keyword reference — entries that mention this term in body prose.

Defined in: Litecoin: Four Parameters Scaled by Exactly Four, and a Founder Who Sold Every Coin He Held

2 entries reference this keyword in body prose.

Added July 26, 2026 Biography Biography

Charlie Lee (1977–) — Litecoin's founder, and "the silver to Bitcoin's gold"

The Google engineer who shipped Litecoin in 2011, called Bitcoin the soundest money in the space for a decade after, and sold every coin he held in 2017.

Added May 6, 2026 Article

Litecoin launches as 'silver to Bitcoin's gold' — Charlie Lee forks Bitcoin with Scrypt PoW (October 2011)

Charlie Lee

Charlie Lee launched Litecoin on October 13, 2011 as a Bitcoin-codebase fork with Scrypt PoW, 2.5-minute blocks, and 84 M cap. He framed it as 'silver to Bitcoin's gold'.