scyclow • 4 days ago

I want to buy an event ticket from you, but we're strangers. So I write a contract that releases the money to you once you send the ticket, or vice versa.

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kiitos • 3 days ago

ebay has somehow managed to support this use case for something like 20 years on the normal existing banking infrastructure

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scyclow • 2 days ago

Yeah, but the idea is that you can eliminate the middleman or implement some as hoc logic that the middleman doesn't support.

cube00 • 4 days ago

The ticket would have to be on the chain and you could then see just how much TicketMaster was making and we can't have that.

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scyclow • 4 days ago

Well, the good news is that you could also program event ticketing logic with a blockchain and build a TicketMaster competitor. But now we're venturing outside simple examples :)