The Bitcoin Conference is usually a wild time. With President Trump still headlining —despite being just days removed from an attempt on his life — conference organizers are ensuring they are ready for what’s expected to be a near-record crowd.

Brandon Green, the Chief of Staff for the organizers behind the conference, recently told Coinage that boosted security measures are being taken.

“It's already standard procedure that the Secret Service detail is up tremendously," Green said. “There's going to be a lot of planning around the security of the event — there already has been. There's going to be even more and it's something that we're taking very seriously, especially on the back of what happened.”

After a drop in attendance during the bear market, Nashville’s Bitcoin Conference attendance is easily expected to top last year’s attendance of about 12,000 and could even rival 2022’s tally of more than 25,000 attendees to set a new record. Green says since President Trump was announced as a headliner, ticket sales have accelerated.

“The tickets have been flowing hot and heavy, and we're already preparing for all sorts of conversations to be had with the fire marshal about how we're going to manage the crowds through the event,” Green said, predicting final attendance could fall anywhere from 20,000 to the 45,000-person event space cap. “I have no way of forecasting, like, all of our models are broken.”

Other conference speakers include the usual suspects and a number of politicians, including Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA,) who recently hosted a crypto roundtable with industry leaders and Biden administration officials. With 2024 being an election year, perhaps it’s not a surprise to see so many politicians as speakers, however, as Coinage has covered, political hopefuls have been courting Bitcoiners for years. Last year’s conference not only attracted RFK Jr., who will be attending again, but also former presidential hopefuls Vivek Ramaswamy and Tulsi Gabbard.

Green says Bitcoin Conference vibes are expected to emulate those conferences of the past despite moving from Miami to Nashville. “It was something akin to like a political rally meets, you know, Burning Man and it's just this special vibe,” Green said. “We’re going to recapture that with this event.”

With so much at stake in the U.S. from a regulatory perspective, the conference is likely to provide a uniquely symbiotic opportunity for both the industry and politicians. The Washington Post reported that one of the conference’s founders promised Trump that attending could result in a $15 million fundraising windfall.

The conference is slated to kick off on July 25.