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Guess who wins that, bots. Now you need a whole new system to verify the identity of the buyer (which HN would prob love).

Also is First Come First Serve really fair? Some people have more time at hand to keep refreshing the page until the tickets are available.

Supply md5 hash of first name + last name + seed when buying, computed manually by yourself.

Upon arrival at the venue you show photo id and a sheet of DIN A4 paper containing the hash and seed, and the Ticket Man will verify.

Side joke: One of the German ticket sites, maybe eventim, stated on the PDF that it must be printed on DIN A4 paper.