特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部华盛顿特区，宴会厅

周四晚上，在特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部华盛顿特朗普俱乐部的宴会厅中，有220名加密货币VIP在等待与总统的晚餐。

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.

周四晚上，约有220个加密货币VIP在特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部华盛顿特朗普国家高尔夫俱乐部等待与唐纳德·特朗普总统的晚餐。

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.

他们坐在桌子到桌子上十，他们接受了“特朗普有机绿色沙拉”的待遇 - 黄瓜，胡萝卜，腌制的红洋葱和樱桃番茄在蜂蜜醋中 - 随后是菲力牛排和大比目鱼的冰球。在侧面，他们被送了一团土豆泥，看起来像是冷冻的蔬菜。着装要求是黑色领带，尽管有些人选择了比特币 - 橙色领结。一位与会者估计有“五到八名”女性。

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

“食物并不重要，”与会者Sangrok Oh解释说。

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.

由于难得的机会，有215多名男子和五到八名妇女在那里 - 与总统一起购买面对面的时间。四月份，特朗普宣布为特朗普的顶级买家宣布抽奖，这是他在就职典礼周末发起的模因硬币，没有固有的价值或效用。哦，来自韩国的加密货币公司创始人进入了前25名，在用餐前赢得了私人招待会，并在周五进行了白宫巡回演出。俄亥俄州在《纽约时报》的另一次采访中说：“这是一种筹款活动。”

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.

外面抗议者的担忧是，加密百万富翁游说总统可能被夸大了。特朗普在下午6:55左右降落在海军陆战队中，当时他与前25位食客进行了简短的会议。俄亥俄州说，在后室，特朗普表示“明确打算支持加密货币行业的人们”。然后，总统出来向主要人群讲话，向该行业提供更多支持，该部门在过去一年中将他的个人净资产膨胀了数亿美元。

“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.

“然后他开始开玩笑 - '真是一个美丽的地方，我想知道谁拥有它。'

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分钟之后 - 特朗普完成了漫长的总统的短暂窗口。当食客们塞进饭菜时，他们听到直升机回到白宫。承诺“与特朗普总统晚餐”的比赛甚至不包括与特朗普总统的晚餐。

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.

一些人向加密记者咖啡齐拉（Coffeczilla）抱怨，晚餐令人失望，演讲是“ wack”。但是刘认为与亲克赖特托总裁并与其他行业领导人建立联系是“非常值得的”。哦，说“与其他CEO会面”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贾斯汀·孙（Justin Sun）。前洛杉矶湖人拉马尔·奥多姆（Lamar Odom）在那里当时是一个加密货币convert依的convert依自己的硬币$ 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.

在关注特朗普之外的抗议者中受益于总统职位：仅模因硬币就为特朗普的业务赢得了数亿美元的费用。晚餐当然是有利可图的。一家加密情报公司告诉路透社，总计220名投资者的支出为1.48亿美元，这为特朗普付出了更多的费用，并为硬币的价值提供了暂时的提升。但是有些人偷了那里。

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.

莫顿·克里斯滕森（Morten Christensen）是一位39岁的荷兰民族，居住在墨西哥城，他经营一家公司，该公司将用户连接到免费的加密货币赠品。比赛开始时，克里斯滕森（Christensen）和他的朋友们使用了基本的风险管理策略来购买足够的特朗普，以便在不投资硬币的情况下进入房间。

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.

他们的策略称为三角洲中立的比赛。克里斯滕森（Christensen）说，他在单独的交易所以相同金额的对冲中购买了价值50,000美元的硬币，以便在不面临任何风险的情况下获得奖励。他说：“我们每天都在更深的层次上做到这一点。”他补充说，他和五个朋友设法进入晚餐的费用约为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.

见面和太阳后，克里斯滕森开始在晚宴上与其他投资者交谈。他说，在他聊天的大约40个人中，“我与之交谈的大多数人都有对冲职位” - 这表明所有这些都可能不是$ trump Present板上的样子。

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.”

融合后，克里斯滕森没有前往聚会后。 “我的朋友们做到了，他们印象并不深刻。”他得到了他的目标。 “当这个机会弹出时，您想出了一种无风险的方法？是的，我会肯定地抓住机会。”但是他希望获得的奖金没有奏效。 “我和我的朋友们希望他能打开我们可以交易的东西。”