• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    9 months ago

    The owner of that NFT (ticket) can then do whatever they want with it without the need for a third party (Ticketmaster) to scalp the shit out of any subsequent transactions.

    How is that supposed to prevent scalping, exactly?

    Proof of ownership of a single ticket at the time of the event is the end goal, which is what NFTs do.

    And that’s better than physical tickets, because…?

    What’s better, is if artists want to provide a subset of tickets that are not resellable they can.

    That’s also already a solved problem: write a name on a ticket and validate that name with an ID.

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      9 months ago

      Just responding to the “scalping” quote. It absolutely wouldn’t stop scalping, what I HOPE op was trying to say was that it could be used to prevent Ticketmaster, or any entity like it, from charging fees on every exchange of said ticket.

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      9 months ago

      And that’s better than physical tickets, because…?

      paper tickets are relatively easy to counterfeit, especially for the purposes of selling the counterfeits as scalped/unwanted tickets.