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Litecoin Founder: Miners Should Donate Block Rewards to LTC Foundation

Charlie Lee: I Won’t Buy Back My Litecoin ‘At All’

Wilma Woo
by Wilma Woo
7 years ago
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Litecoin creator Charlie Lee is not planning to buy back the litecoins he sold “any time soon or at all” after he sold his entire holdings nine months ago. 


Buy The Slide

That was the response to a question during an appearance on CNBC August 27, during which Lee discussed Bitcoin [coin_price] and Litecoin price [coin_price coin=litecoin] performance and adoption.

“For me, I sold because of a conflict of interest,” he told host Melissa Lee when she asked whether Litecoin’s current price of $58 represented a “buying opportunity.”

 

…I think it’s always good to buy on the way down to dollar cost average your buy-in; that’s what I would recommend people to do.

Lee had previously told the network that he thought investors should buy at least 1 bitcoin before Litecoin or any other cryptocurrency.

Tough Times For Litecoin

Lee caused a stir late last year when he announced he had sold his entire stake in his altcoin. Appearing to sell as LTC/USD hit all-time highs around $350, community commentators appeared to criticize his decision for threatening to spook markets and lose investors money.

Lee defended the decision at the time, additionally pledging to concentrate solely on Litecoin development.

“I’m not quitting Litecoin. I will still spend all my time working on Litecoin,” he wrote on Reddit at the time. “When Litecoin succeeds, I will still be rewarded in lots of different ways, just not directly via ownership of coins.”

2018 has further proven to be a testing one for both Lee and Litecoin. As Bitcoinist reported this week, silverbug and Golden State Mint head TruthNeverTold became the latest party to cast scorn on the December sell-off, directly calling cryptocurrencies a “ponzi scheme.”

Prior to that, a partnership with TokenPay in July to purchase a share of a German bank sparked a fresh backlash stemming from TokenPay’s dubious reputation.

Nonetheless, the altcoin is not without its supporters, this week coming in the form of Blockstream CSO Samson Mow, who noted that together with Bitcoin it had represented the only safe long-term investment opportunity.

It’s important to have diversification in a long term $crypto portfolio? No. If you bought anything other than $BTC and $LTC to hold back in 2013 you’d be thoroughly #REKT. pic.twitter.com/iXSTIgCZ3q

— Samson Mow (@Excellion) August 28, 2018

What do you think about Charlie Lee’s pledge not to buy back into LTC? Let us know in the comments below!


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