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Andrew: Hey everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. One of my listeners, a guy named Chris Pritchard, he Facebook messaged me and texted me and emailed me and said, “Andrew, you’re completely ignoring cryptocurrency. And I said, “Yeah, I guess I am. I don’t fully understand it and I also don’t want to be part of this hype cycle that’s going on.” And he said, “No, Andrew, it’s more than hype. There’s this thing that’s going on. You’re not aware of it.”

I said, “Chris, what’s your input on it? Why do you care so much?” He said, “Andrew, I’m so obsessed with trading that I’m actually discovering these guys who are expert traders.” I said, “Expert traders?” He said, “Yeah, yeah. They’re expert traders, giving people advice.” I said, “Okay.” He says, “I’m actually creating a place, something called Coin Trade Pros, where anyone can find the ideal trader and learn from them, or if they’re great pro traders, they could come on and they could find a marketplace of customers to learn from.” I said, “This whole thing is that big?” He says, “Yeah.” I said, “All right. I better find a way to do this. Chris, who should I interview?” And he said, “You know what? The first person you should interview is a guy named Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin.” I said, “Oh, of course I know Litecoin. Do you think you could get Charlie Lee?” He says, “Yeah, yeah. I’ll work on it.”

The reason I know Litecoin is because my dad, for the longest time, wanted me to help him buy Litecoin. The guy can barely operate his iPhone 6 plus but he wants Litecoin. This is one of those cryptocurrencies that because of the way it started became a major currency and the creator is here with me today. His name is Charlie Lee. He has left his previous job to focus on the Litecoin Foundation that he created. I invited him here to talk about both Litecoin, how he created it, why he created it, and also just cryptocurrencies in general. I’ve gone back in time. I found some old posts that he did. I want to ask him about how his ideas have changed since then.

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Charlie: Hi Andrew. Thanks for having me.