Namecoin

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

Defined in: Namecoin launches as the first altcoin — Vincent Durham realizes the BitDNS proposal (April 2011)

3 entries reference this keyword in body prose.

Event October 13, 2011 Added July 26, 2026 Updated October 13, 2026 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 or donated every coin he held in 2017.

Event October 31, 2008 Added May 6, 2026 Updated October 14, 2026 Analysis

Bitcoin's family tree: forks, altcoins, and the mainline Bitcoin that endured

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto, Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Amaury Séchet, Craig Wright, Jihan Wu, Mike Belshe, Roger Ver, Vitalik Buterin

Genealogy of every Bitcoin protocol fork that left a separate chain alive (Bitcoin Cash, SV, Gold) and the adjacent cryptocurrencies derived from Bitcoin (Namecoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin).

Event October 13, 2011 Added May 6, 2026 Updated October 10, 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'.