Some of people will say like Bitcoin is currency for, for Kings and Lightcoin is currency for the people.

Bitcoin companies, right, are storing Bitcoin in their company treasuries.

Countries, even countries are doing that with Bitcoin.

But a lot of people, because they can't afford to buy one Bitcoin, right, they would buy Lykecoin.

And it acts as the same kind of store value in means of exchange as Bitcoin. But it's easier to use. Charlie Lee, welcome to Coin Desk Spotlight.

Hi. Thanks for having me.

Of course, thanks for being here.

Now, I want to go all the way back to the beginning of your crypto journey to kick this conversation

off.

I know that you were working at Google when the Bitcoin white paper came out.

Take me back to the moment when you first read it.

And just, I want you to live in that moment for a little bit.

Talk to me about what clicked for you at that time.

I remember reading about Bitcoin on slashdot.

I don't know if you guys remember the website slashdot.org.

I read the headline about a currency that is used on a darknet marketplace.

And it really intrigued me because it was not so much a dark net marketplace, but more so the currency that the reason why they are only using Bitcoin.

Because I was very into gold back then. I was kind of a small gold bug. I realized like gold is a better form of money

and in that fiat currencies, the government can just keep printing more. Whereas gold being a fixed

amount, there's limit of supply. There's no kind of no one person, one company or one entity can

inflate away your money, right?

Whereas fiat, that's not the case.

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