Ding Lei denies rumor of buying Bitcoin for $1 billion: He has never owned a single Bitcoin

Sina Technology News on the morning of February 22, a few days ago, according to a website, a mysterious person recently spent 1 billion US dollars to buy 96,000 bitcoins, and the specific buyer information is unknown. Later, it was rumored that the mysterious sponsor who spent 1 billion US dollars might be NetEase CEO Ding Lei.

In response to this rumor, Ding Lei refuted it, saying that he has never owned a single Bitcoin and expressed his close attention to the development of blockchain.

Technology giants at home and abroad have been involved in blockchain, and NetEase is no exception. In early January this year, NetEase CEO Ding Lei confirmed that he would participate in the early financing of ArcBlock, a US blockchain company, and would serve as a project consultant for the company.