People lined up for blocks and waited for hours to get into the E11even club in Miami on Wednesday night, with several men talking excitedly about the lap dances they planned to get inside.

Yet this wasn’t the typical crowd of bachelors normally found at establishments like these. It was the official after-party of Consensus, one of the cryptocurrency industry‘s largest conferences.

It seems the more things change in crypto, the more they stay the same: This was the same club that hosted an event after another crypto conference in 2018, triggering a backlash that led to apologies from the gathering’s organiser and main sponsor. “Some have said there was a ‘corporate sheen’ on this year’s Consensus Miami event. But if that sheen is just…