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While he was still at Google, he bought his first Bitcoin from Hearn and started mining to prepare himself to develop his own digital currency. Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin, one of the earliest Bitcoin derivatives, is best known as a highly successful entrepreneur in the emerging cryptocurrency industry. Others Others. Lee shares that pretty much all the code for Litecoin is forked from Bitcoin. In December , Lee posted on Reddit that he had sold or donated all his Litecoin holdings except for a few physical coins to keep as collectibles to avoid any possible conflict of interest from his position as a social media influencer.
