- Former President Donald Trump to raise money at Bitcoin conference.
- Seats at Trump’s roundtable cost $844,600, maximum legally allowable.
- Photos with Trump to go for $60,000, or $100,000 for a couple.
Former President Donald Trump will hold a campaign fundraiser July 27 alongside the Bitcoin2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee, with the top ticket priced at $844,600 per person, according to an invitation seen and reproduced by several media organisations.
The priciest tickets, which include a seat at a roundtable with Trump, represent the maximum legal donation individuals are permitted to give Trump and the Republican Party’s joint fundraising committee.
The invitation also offers a photo with Trump for $60,000 a person, or $100,000 for a couple.
A large slate of luminaries featured by the event include former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn, independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, and California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, among others.
Trump had agreed to headline the Bitcoin conference before he was shot in the ear in an assassination attempt by a 20-year-old gunman on July 13.
The former president is featured on the event’s website as the headliner and is expected to give a keynote speech.
Trump has recently been painted as pro-crypto, despite having called Bitcoin a scam in 2021.
In May, Trump said: “If you’re in favour of crypto you’d better vote for Trump,” and added that his campaign would accept crypto donations, DL News reported.
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Still, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sounded a potential note of scepticism and set off a discussion in the crypto community earlier this week when he asked: “If a politician is pro-crypto, the key question to ask is: are they in it for the right reasons?”
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