Charlie Lee, the creator of the world's fifth-biggest cryptocurrency, Litecoin, announced that he was cashing in his profits after a 9,300% rally in the past 12 months. The San Francisco-based software engineer who founded Litecoin in 2013 said he sold and donated all of his holdings over the past few days. He declined to say how many Litecoins he sold, but said it was a small amount of what is traded daily, so it did not hurt the currency.
Charlie Lee, the creator of the world's fifth-biggest cryptocurrency, Litecoin, announced shortly after midnight that he was cashing in his profits after a torrid, 9,300% rally in the past 12 months. In a post on reddit, the San Francisco-based software engineer who founded litecoin in 2013, said that he sold and donated all of his holdings over the past few days.
"Litecoin has been very good for me financially, so I am well off enough that I no longer need to tie my financial success to Litecoin's success. For the first time in 6+ years, I no longer own a single LTC that's not stored in a physical Litecoin" Lee said in the post.
Litecoin, which was trading at $3.67 on December 20, 2016, and $4.40 at the start of the year, has climbed 9,300% in the past 12 month. It tumbled on Wednesday, following most digital currencies lower after a flash crash in bitcoin after Coinbase announced it would finally transact in Bitcoin Cash which led to a brief avalanche of selling as traders repositioned.
The currency fell15% due to problems in China, and has shed about a third of its value since Sept. 1. But it is up from $600 about a year ago.
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