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In total, the 220 winners of the contest to attend the dinner spent $394 million on Trump’s official cryptocurrency.

More than 200 wealthy, mostly anonymous crypto buyers are coming to Washington on Thursday to have dinner with Donald Trump. The price of admission: $55,000 to $37.7 million.

That’s how much the 220 winners of a contest to meet Trump spent on his volatile cryptocurrency token, $TRUMP, according to an analysis by the blockchain analytics company Nansen.

The top $TRUMP coin holders at a specific time — determined by the dinner’s organizers — secured a seat.

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[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

TL;DR:

President Trump is hosting an exclusive crypto-funded dinner where attendees paid between $55,000 and $37.7 million in his official cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, for a seat.

$394 million total was spent by winners averaging $1.8 million per seat

80% of the crypto project is owned by Trumps various companies.

Most winners are foreign nationals (72%), breaking U.S. campaign finance laws.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not skirting. Flagrantly breaking. Soft language is bad

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 hours ago

fair, updated wording

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 40 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Fucking outright corruption

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Trump can't hear you over the sound of his new jet from Qatar

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 11 points 9 hours ago

It could literally not be any more blatant

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Giant meteor, if you're listening...

[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 4 points 6 hours ago

Nah fuck that, small precisely targeted meteor.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

A small correction, they pay a fee on that amount. But the full amount is just a highly volatile investment. So, that's the amount it could cost them.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 7 points 11 hours ago

Most expensive Big Mac meal ever