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Charlie Lee is in the news, again. This time the architect of Litecoin (LTC) has taken to Twitter to allay abrogating rumors and add in some of his own for acceptable measure.
In a cilia spanning 11 tweets appear beforehand this morning, Lee argues adjoin rumors advance about Litecoin. He claims the LTC amount has been ‘suppressed’ because a assembly of funds and absorbed parties are shorting the bread as they see it as a ‘threat’.
Lee’s tweets additionally abnegate claims that the LTC arrangement is barren to mine; that it is aloof a testnet for new technology ultimately advised for Bitcoin (BTC); and that it’s accepted $3bn bazaar cap is an bottomless valuation. One of his tweets refers to claims that Litecoin has absent its abstruse bend in a saturated market, article this columnist has suggested in the past.
Charlie Lee: The Founder.
Charlie Lee developed Litecoin in 2024, while he was alive as a software architect at Google. He confused to Coinbase in July 2024 as an engineering manager, and alone larboard to assignment on Litecoin in June 2024, abrogation his position as the exchange’s Director of Engineering. Despite Litecoin’s bazaar cap actuality mostly account over $150m back bounce 2024, Lee has spent aloof over a year alive full-time for the project.
Lee is the baton of the LTC network; Vitalik Buterin holds a agnate array of position in the Ethereum (ETH) community. As the sole creator, Lee is a different position of ample ascendancy and access over the project’s development and abiding future. It additionally agency that his persona is carefully angry to that of his creation.
“Litecoin…has a well-recognized baton and figurehead whose persona acts as the ultimate accommodation ascendancy in affairs apropos to eyes and development,” a recent report by the crypto advance and analysis close CoinShares said.
A activity accepting a figurehead is not necessarily a bad thing. They can accord much-needed advice and abiding administration to a association advance agilely beyond the world. Projects that rely heavily on their communities can splinter easily. Would some of the Bitcoin association accept burst off to actualize Bitcoin Cash (BCH) had Satoshi Nakamoto remained alive and connected to ascertain what his eyes was?
The botheration is they can become a point of vulnerability. The fate of the activity is angry up with that of the leader. A bazaar accident can action if account gets out that they’re ailing or dying. A hoax that Buterin had died in a car blast acquired a abreast $10bn brief wipe-out for Ether’s bazaar cap in June aftermost year.
A amiss accommodation or blooper of the argot can be awkward for the project’s lead, but it will ultimately aching investors more. This isn’t aloof belted to cryptocurrency. Tesla’s banal amount has bashed over the summer afterward a alternation of Elon Musk-related blunders, including actuality sued for aspersion afterwards again calling a British diver a ‘pedo’ and smoker cannabis alive on air.
Does Litecoin (LTC) charge him?
Since affective to assignment full-time on the activity aftermost year, Lee has fabricated some notable blunders. He accustomed and bankrolled the LTC acquittal appliance LitePay at the alpha of 2018, acceptance that their due activity was not acceptable in addition out if the aggregation could bear on its promises (it angry out that it couldn’t).
When LTC prices ailing at over $350 anniversary in mid-December, Lee completed asleep his absolute Litecoin holdings. Although he claimed this enabled him to assignment on the activity with acceptable detachment, the move was acerb criticised by the added community.
Some admiration whether Litecoin can continue, if its architect has awash out completely.
Lee’s artful accent in his cheep cilia today is addition archetype of his shortcomings. This advertisement has appropriate that cryptocurrencies charge to be able to authenticate their wider account and the different botheration they address. It is artlessly not abundant for the baton to altercate that abstruse agents are boring the amount of an asset bottomward because it’s a ‘threat’. Who are these bearding parties? How does Litecoin affectation a blackmail to their interests?
LTC is angry for its adaptation in a bazaar saturated with peer-to-peer cryptocurrencies. The activity has adequate on its acclaim for far too long, venerability can alone get you so far afore vulnerability defines you.
Litecoin doesn’t charge Lee’s leadership. The core-team and adolescent lath associates of the Litecoin Foundation could accommodate administration with added action advancing from its still considerably-sized community.
Lee said in an account aback in April that affairs his backing was the ‘first step’ for him to abolish himself absolutely from the project.
Charlie Lee dumped his LTC at the best accessible time; maybe Litecoin should acknowledgment the favor.
The columnist is invested in BTC and ETH, which are mentioned in this article.
