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Why would that be so? My understanding is that they want to discourage scalping.

Digital tickets tied to digital identities that can only be transfered at market price. That's not a difficult smart contact to create.

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Scalping is also selling tickets at market price - after first making sure the market price is a big multiple of what it was before scalpers got to work.

If I wasn't clear, the market price is just a variable that could be set. If they wanted they could set this at the initial sale price.

I like the idea of building in a percent cut taken out of the resell price and given to the venue/artist. It taxes scalpers and allows artists to benefit from secondary markets if they mispriced their initial offering. Its also easy to do in a contract

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