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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    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.

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    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.

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    Nasty old thing thinks he gets to take it with him…? Tick tock, ass-clown, you ain’t living forever.