What is Nostr?
Leo Wandersleb
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2024-11-21 13:37:03
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Leo Wandersleb on Nostr: Nostr has some components of the NFT nature of event tickets but what's lacking out ...

Nostr has some components of the NFT nature of event tickets but what's lacking out of the box is double-spend protection. An event has a natural central authority though - the organizer - so you could have a protocol by which the organizer runs a nostr app that allows selling tickets as nostr events.

If seat B32 gets sold (or minted) more than once, people would see it was the organizer's fault as the tickets both would be signed by them.

The organizer could run a mint, making ticket transfer "atomic". Alice offers to sell the ticket for a zap to Alice@organizer and the organizer's mint would assure there is only one - the first - that can successfully zap. The organizer could even take a cut. For example 50% of what Alice gets above of what she paid. Or a flat fee. Trivial to do if organizer owns the mint that's required to be involved to have ticket transfers counter-signed by the organizer.

The buyer could
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