Charlie lee is an early Bitcoin developer and creator of Litecoin, one of the leading cryptocurrencies. Lee is a tech whiz and spent years working for several top tech companies, including Google and Guidewire Software in the early 2000s. Initially, Lee learned about bitcoin while he was working at Google through an article on Silk Road. More so, Lee began to experiment with mining. As an early bitcoin developer, his first-ever cryptocurrency project was called Fairbix, a coin which was developed in September 2011