特朗普國家高爾夫俱樂部華盛頓特區，宴會廳

週四晚上，在特朗普國家高爾夫俱樂部華盛頓特朗普俱樂部的宴會廳中，有220名加密貨幣VIP在等待與總統的晚餐。

About 220 cryptocurrency VIPs were waiting for their dinner with President Donald Trump at the Trump National Golf Club Washington, D.C., on Thursday night.

週四晚上，約有220個加密貨幣VIP在特朗普國家高爾夫俱樂部華盛頓特朗普國家高爾夫俱樂部等待與唐納德·特朗普總統的晚餐。

Seated ten to a table, they were treated to the “Trump Organic Field Green Salad” — cucumber, carrot, pickled red onion, and cherry tomato under a honey vinaigrette — followed by pucks of filet mignon and halibut. On the side, they were served a dollop of mashed potatoes and what sure looked like frozen vegetables. The dress code was black tie, though some opted for bitcoin-orange bow ties. One attendee estimates that there were “five to eight” women.

他們坐在桌子到桌子上十，他們接受了“特朗普有機綠色沙拉”的待遇 - 黃瓜，胡蘿蔔，醃製的紅洋蔥和櫻桃番茄在蜂蜜醋中 - 隨後是菲力牛排和大比目魚的冰球。在側面，他們被送了一團土豆泥，看起來像是冷凍的蔬菜。著裝要求是黑色領帶，儘管有些人選擇了比特幣 - 橙色領結。一位與會者估計有“五到八名”女性。

“The food was not important,” attendee Sangrok Oh explains.

“食物並不重要，”與會者Sangrok Oh解釋說。

The 215-odd men and five-to-eight women were there thanks to a rare opportunity — to purchase face-time with the president. In April, Trump announced a sweepstakes for the top buyers of $TRUMP, a meme coin he launched on his inauguration weekend that has no inherent value or utility. Oh, a crypto-firm founder from South Korea eked his way into the top 25, earning a private reception before the meal and a White House tour on Friday. “It’s kind of a fundraiser,” Oh said in a separate interview with the New York Times.

由於難得的機會，有215多名男子和五到八名婦女在那裡 - 與總統一起購買麵對面的時間。四月份，特朗普宣佈為特朗普的頂級買家宣布抽獎，這是他在就職典禮週末發起的模因硬幣，沒有固有的價值或效用。哦，來自韓國的加密貨幣公司創始人進入了前25名，在用餐前贏得了私人招待會，並在周五進行了白宮巡迴演出。俄亥俄州在《紐約時報》的另一次採訪中說：“這是一種籌款活動。”

Concerns from protesters outside that crypto millionaires were lobbying the president may have been overstated. Trump landed in the Marine One helicopter around 6:55 p.m., when he had a brief meeting with the top-25 diners. In a back room, Oh says that Trump expressed a “clear intention to support people in the crypto industry.” Then the president came out to address the main crowd, promising more support to the sector that has inflated his personal net worth by hundreds of millions over the past year.

外面抗議者的擔憂是，加密百萬富翁遊說總統可能被誇大了。特朗普在下午6:55左右降落在海軍陸戰隊中，當時他與前25位食客進行了簡短的會議。俄亥俄州說，在後室，特朗普表示“明確打算支持加密貨幣行業的人們”。然後，總統出來向主要人群講話，向該行業提供更多支持，該部門在過去一年中將他的個人淨資產膨脹了數億美元。

“Then he started joking around — ‘What a beautiful place, I wonder who owns it,’” says Vincent Liu, the chief operating officer at the Taiwan-based firm Kronos Research, who was also in attendance.

“然後他開始開玩笑 - '真是一個美麗的地方，我想知道誰擁有它。'

After 15-to-20 minutes — a short window for the long-winded president — Trump was done. As diners tucked into their meals, they heard the helicopter taking off back to the White House. The contest that promised “Dinner With President Trump” didn’t even include a dinner with President Trump.

15到20分鐘之後 - 特朗普完成了漫長的總統的短暫窗口。當食客們塞進飯菜時，他們聽到直升機回到白宮。承諾“與特朗普總統晚餐”的比賽甚至不包括與特朗普總統的晚餐。

Some complained to the crypto journalist Coffeezilla that the dinner was disappointing and the speech was “wack.” But Liu thought it was “very much worth it” to be in the room with the pro-crypto president and network with other industry leaders. Oh said that “meeting with other CEOs” was the most important part.

一些人向加密記者咖啡齊拉（Coffeczilla）抱怨，晚餐令人失望，演講是“ wack”。但是劉認為與親克賴特托總裁併與其他行業領導人建立聯繫是“非常值得的”。哦，說“與其他CEO會面”是最重要的部分。

Among those in the crowd were Justin Sun, the billionaire who has benefited greatly from Trump’s lax crypto enforcement — and has invested almost $100 million in Trump’s assorted crypto properties. Lamar Odom, the former Los Angeles Laker, was there as a crypto convert pumping his own coin, $ODOM.

在人群中的那些人是賈斯汀·孫（Justin Sun）。前洛杉磯湖人拉馬爾·奧多姆（Lamar Odom）在那里當時是一個加密貨幣convert依的convert依自己的硬幣$ odom。

Protesters outside concerned with Trump benefiting off the presidency had a point: The meme coin alone has earned Trump’s businesses hundreds of millions of dollars in fees alone. And the dinner was certainly lucrative. A crypto intelligence firm told Reuters that the top 220 investors in total spent $148 million, which raked in more fees for Trump and provided a temporary boost to the coin’s value. But there were some who got in there for a steal.

在關注特朗普之外的抗議者中受益於總統職位：僅模因硬幣就為特朗普的業務贏得了數億美元的費用。晚餐當然是有利可圖的。一家加密情報公司告訴路透社，總計220名投資者的支出為1.48億美元，這為特朗普付出了更多的費用，並為硬幣的價值提供了暫時的提升。但是有些人偷了那裡。

Morten Christensen is a 39-year-old Dutch national living in Mexico City who runs a company that connects users to free cryptocurrency giveaways. As the contest wore on, Christensen and his friends used a basic risk-management strategy to buy enough $TRUMP in order to get in the room without investing heavily in the coin.

莫頓·克里斯滕森（Morten Christensen）是一位39歲的荷蘭民族，居住在墨西哥城，他經營一家公司，該公司將用戶連接到免費的加密貨幣贈品。比賽開始時，克里斯滕森（Christensen）和他的朋友們使用了基本的風險管理策略來購買足夠的特朗普，以便在不投資硬幣的情況下進入房間。

Their strategy is called a delta-neutral play. Christensen says he bought $50,000 worth of the coin while hedging it for the same amount on a separate exchange in order to reap the rewards without being exposed to any of the risk. “We do this every day on much deeper levels,” he says. He adds that he and five friends managed to get into the dinner spending around $1,200 each in fees.

他們的策略稱為三角洲中立的比賽。克里斯滕森（Christensen）說，他在單獨的交易所以相同金額的對沖中購買了價值50,000美元的硬幣，以便在不面臨任何風險的情況下獲得獎勵。他說：“我們每天都在更深的層次上做到這一點。”他補充說，他和五個朋友設法進入晚餐的費用約為1200美元。

After meeting Odom and Sun, Christensen began talking to other investors at the dinner. Of roughly 40 people he chatted with, he says, “Most people I spoke to had hedge positions” — suggesting all might not be what it seems on the $TRUMP leaderboard.

見面和太陽後，克里斯滕森開始在晚宴上與其他投資者交談。他說，在他聊天的大約40個人中，“我與之交談的大多數人都有對沖職位” - 這表明所有這些都可能不是$ trump Present板上的樣子。

After mingling, Christensen did not head to the after-party. “My friends did, and they weren’t very impressed.” He had gotten what he came for. “When this opportunity pops up and you figure out a way to do it risk free? Yeah, I’ll take that opportunity for sure.” But the bonus he hoped for did not work out. “Me and my friends were hoping that he would slip something that we could trade on.”

融合後，克里斯滕森沒有前往聚會後。 “我的朋友們做到了，他們印象並不深刻。”他得到了他的目標。 “當這個機會彈出時，您想出了一種無風險的方法？是的，我會肯定地抓住機會。”但是他希望獲得的獎金沒有奏效。 “我和我的朋友們希望他能打開我們可以交易的東西。”