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Ticketmaster to Enhance Ticketing System with Blockchain in New Partnership
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* Cointelegraph reports on moves by **Ticketmaster to incorporate blockchain technology into its toolkit to address ticketing fraud and ‘scalping’, with the acquisition of ‘blockchain-focused’ live events firm Upgraded**.

* Through Upgraded, Ticketmaster will digitise traditional tickets and record their encrypted barcodes onto a blockchain ledger.

* The CEO and founder of Upgraded is excited that the deal will see Upgraded ‘promote blockchain technology to millions of fans’.

* The acquisition of a blockchain ticketing technology sits alongside other measures that Ticketmaster is taking to **address problems of ticket fraud and scalping**, such as  facial identity.

* The moves come in the wake of **allegations that Ticketmaster allowed fake accounts to bypass multiple-ticket restrictions in order to sell tickets in volume in the secondary market**, says Cointelegraph.

### Upgraded Tickets: Short demo 
https://youtu.be/L9o7w4TFPSw

### Comments

* I am just not clear how this move solves one of the primary problems experienced by the consumer when it comes to concert tickets: the likelihood that for most ‘gigs’ you will end up buying tickets in the secondary market, and paying a premium over the launch price. 

* The article refers to Ticketmaster’s own claim that **60% of tickets get swept up by automated ‘bots’** which somehow manage to get around its limits on multi-ticket sales. We’re not sure how blockchain solves that particular problem. 

* As for fraud – the sale of duplicate tickets, or fake tickets for seats that have already been sold via official channels? Even here its not clear to me how blockchain solves the problem – **encrypting a ‘traditional’ ticket barcode onto a blockchain does not stop unscrupulous touts from copying or faking tickets and selling them to unsuspecting fans.**

* To conclude: I remain Sceptical!


## What do you think?

[Source](https://cointelegraph.com/news/ticketmaster-to-enhance-ticketing-system-with-blockchain-in-new-partnership)

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I am sure it can be, but it needs to show that applying Blockchain is useful in this case.

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