A Hangzhou guy who had been on online blind dates for months but no one responded to him revealed his identity as a blockchain engineer and received hundreds of private messages

It’s almost the end of the year. Are you being forced to get married by your family?

In order to have an explanation when he goes home for the Chinese New Year, Qiu Honglin, a young engineer at Ant Financial, registered on a marriage and dating website, hoping to find his soul mate through this efficient way of making friends.

However, the girls didn't buy it. More than a month passed and no one responded.

Until a few days ago, he added "blockchain engineer" to his profile, and the situation suddenly reversed.

In just a few days, he received 238 private messages from girls!

▲ Xiaoqiu's personal photo

The Express reporter arranged to meet Xiao Qiu. He is quite tall, 178cm, 25 years old, from Guangdong; he is currently an engineer at Ant Financial, the parent company of Alipay, and a coder.

Although he is a science guy, he is still quite romantic.

A month ago, Xiao Qiu registered an account on a dating website and introduced himself as "a fatalist in love, a bard confined to code". The former is his belief in love, and the latter is a joke about himself, "an engineer, who jokes that he is a code poet at work."

It sounds romantic, doesn't it? But the girls didn't buy it. More than a month passed, and no one responded.

Xiao Qiu thought this was unscientific, so he checked the pages of other popular dating sites and said, "Look at how others introduce themselves. I found that some people also wrote about their jobs, and then I thought if adding the company position would make it more attractive."

So he added "blockchain engineer" and it became a three-line poem.

This modification was incredible. In just a few days, I received 238 private messages from girls asking for friendship!

The girls are all so knowledgeable!

▲ Xiao Qiu was a little excited, and announced in a friend group: I’m not far from being single!

“Although blockchain is popular, it is still an unfamiliar concept to ordinary people. So, at first, I didn’t think it was because of the addition of ‘blockchain engineer’ that it became popular. But after thinking about it, there should be no other reason... I was also surprised that the girls were so knowledgeable about technology trends.”

Xiao Qiu said that the girls who sent him private messages were all kinds of people. Some asked him if he was a "miner" and "if he was paid in Bitcoin."

So, Xiao Qiu began to reply to the private messages and explain to the girls: "I don't mine, and the company doesn't send me Bitcoin every month. Blockchain engineers focus on using blockchain technology to build a trust infrastructure."

The Express reporter asked him, what exactly is blockchain?

Xiao Qiu said: "It is difficult to explain blockchain technology in a few words. It is a distributed ledger involving multiple parties, which changes the past reliance on a centralized entity to establish trust relationships. For example, our first application scenario is charity, helping a group of hearing-impaired children obtain a traceable donation to promote more open and transparent charity. We will also use blockchain in the insurance field and product authenticity traceability."

Because there were too many private messages and he "couldn't reply to them all", Xiao Qiu recently temporarily closed his dating page. "The New Year is coming soon, and there will be more gatherings and more opportunities to make friends."

When asked by the Express reporter what kind of girl he was looking for, Xiao Qiu said she wanted a cute and smart girl, over 165cm tall, and preferably someone who didn't work with him.

At the end, he asked, "Can you introduce your journalist friend to me?"