$BTC #CryptoCPIWatch But $130-million-plus in political action committee spending later, here we are.

Friday’s meeting, starting at 1:30 p.m. ET, will bring together a tight-knit circle of crypto elite, including Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and billionaire tech entrepreneur/bitcoin hype man Michael Saylor, among others. From the White House, count on seeing the venture capitalist and Trump crypto czar David Sacks, digital assets task force leader Bo Hines and acting chairman of the SEC Mark Uyeda.

The meeting is, in part, a victory lap for an industry that feels as if it’s been brought in from the financial wilderness. And it’s an opportunity for executives to pay homage to the man who’s clearing their path.

“I think the most important thing that’s going to happen tomorrow is all of us are going to express our gratitude to the president for… laying out a really positive and ambitious agenda for the US to be a crypto leader in the world,” Faryar Shirzad, chief policy officer at Coinbase, told me. “All the companies around the table are already ramping up their investments to build in America. And I think it’ll be an opportunity to thank him for giving us the room to do that, and take the US back into a leadership position.”

Aside from the genuflection to President Donald Trump, the agenda is likely to be a grab-bag of industry priorities — the various pieces of legislation making their way through Congress, guidance on a regulatory framework, removing the capital gains tax on crypto, etc