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Charlie Lee

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
169 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

I'm not just going to tweak some numbers just because I feel like it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

So I kept it very similar to Bitcoin where every four years the reward halves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

So it has enough runway to succeed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

If you make it half too soon, then the coin, before it succeeds, the rewards will run out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

You're overpaying the earlier miners than...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

Yeah, so just this year we created a Litecoin foundation, a nonprofit organization that takes donation and we sell merchandises to try to raise funds.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

And all we do is we use that fund to pay for developers, to pay for members to help Litecoin, to help promote Litecoin, to help develop Litecoin.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

Our team size is five core members.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

And the various degrees of like, depending on how much they work, a lot of a lot of our team members are actually most of them are volunteers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

We don't pay them a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

We don't pay them anything.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

And they work on it because of their passion.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

Well, there's a few things we developed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

So we developed like the mobile wallet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

We have an iOS, Android wallet, Loaf wallet that we're developing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

We also keep developing on the core protocol.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

So because...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

We keep Litecoin code base very close to Bitcoin so that we can basically take all the improvements of Bitcoin and add it to Litecoin without too much trouble.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

So we keep that very close.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
951 How He Created LiteCoin, the Silver to Bitcoin Gold

We keep it up to date.