"Those tickets cost hundreds to thousands of dollars".
That doesn't sound so bad.
You should have said, "... Millions of Satoshis". This sounds unbearably expensive.
If I recall you can actually buy BTC Miami tickets in Bitcoin. There are VIP whale tickets you can buy too for some super crazy amount of Bitcoin with some additional perks. So you are not too far off the mark. I hope that one day Bitcoin is so boring that it does not need a specific convention. That is how integrated into society it should be.
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