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Geraldine Estevez, The Desert Sun

Physical coins being turned into digital coins on a tablet.(Photo: Getty Images)

For three days this week, technophiles will descend on Palm Springs to debate the future of Bitcoin, chat about blockchain and, if they want, tip back a cocktail at day’s end.

The first-ever Crypto Springs cryptocurrency conference opens Tuesday night at the Ace Hotel and runs through Oct. 4. Conference co-founder Meltem Demirors said she and a fellow organizer came up with the idea while chatting on Signal, an encrypted messaging app popular in the cryptocurrency community.

“We missed the old Bitcoin conferences that were really small, fairly intimate, very low cost to attend,” Demirors said. “We were like, ‘Wait a minute, what would it take for us to organize a cool conference?’”

So they did.

The event has sold 250 tickets – and at $250 to $1,000 a pop, the passes are far…