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Dutch ticketing company uses blockchain to address scalping

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Tomorrow GUTS Tickets which uses blockchain for ticketing will be selling tickets for popular local star Guus Meeuwis’s June 2020 event. The 35,000 seat Philips stadium in Eindhoven will host the multi-day event. Last year we reported the company sold 50,000 tickets for a famous local comedian. The founders created the GET Protocol for ticketing, which has its own GET token. The startup aims to target ticket scalping and fraud. Every ticket is associated with the buyer’s mobile phone, which makes it hard for someone else to steal it. And it can’t just be copied because the barcode is only made available just before the event. The Dutch Police even included GUTS Tickets as one of two online outlets which are safe to purchase tickets. We had three questions about the GET protocol. How does it address scalping? Is GUTS really using blockchain? Is blockchain necessary?

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