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I just had a thought: all the time, scalpers buy thousands of tickets to gigs and stadiums and resell the tickets to fans at much higher prices. These bastards price ordinary fans right out of their events. The solution should be cryptographic proof.

Think of it like this: a band/artist/venue puts up their tickets to a Bitcoin based service. Someone sends them Bitcoin. When they get there, they show the venue a signed message from the address that they used to pay. Suddenly, the secondary ticketing market becomes extremely complicated, and Bitcoin users don't even have to verify their actual identity with the service.

This could even apply to sports as well.

Any thoughts on this? I'm not a real developer so I have no idea on the details.