A ticket for CoinDesk's Consensus 2018 conference will set you back roughly $2,000 per ticket and with 8,500 attendees the event will be bringing in $17 million in ticket sales alone this year.
Last-minute admission is an eye-watering $3,000 per person (about 0.3 Bitcoin for those that no longer think in dollars).
Consensus, a three-day conference which features talks and exhibitions on everything cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, and the underlying blockchain, is this year the biggest yet -- and the first since Bitcoin's price explosion last year that saw Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies skyrocket in price.
The Bitcoin price has already rallied since the biggest hitters from the world of cryptocurrency descended on New York over the weekend, adding some 4% from a three-week low on Monday
