“Don’t ignore politics, because I guarantee you, my friends, politics is not going to ignore this community,” Vance said.

Panel moderators did not raise the subject of the $TRUMP meme coin onstage with Sacks, the Trump brothers or others from Trump world. The subject appeared not to come up at all in the conference’s official programming, even though many attendees had closely followed news about the coin with concern.

Some bitcoin holders said that the depth of the Trump-crypto alliance made them a little uncomfortable. They noted that bitcoin was invented in 2008 to be independent of any government or other central authority.

“The people that are in politics are kind of the bandwagoners,” said Dustin Lee, a conference attendee who said he’s been working in crypto for eight years and has his own meme coin, called Quai Boss. He said he was OK with the politicians’ presence, though. “We need the stragglers to get into the space, to bring on the rest of the people,” he said.

Geiger said that although she likes Trump and his policies, she’s still pessimistic in general about politicians and their intentions toward bitcoin.

“I don’t want to be blindsided. I don’t want to be like, ‘Oh, everything’s all right now, because the orange guy won.’ It’s not that. Some of the things are moving slowly in a direction I love. But on the whole, politicians are gonna politician. They’re gonna do their thing.”