Tommy

Software Dev

[Tommy @tomlolroflxd]

@sweatystartup Silent?!

[OPEN Ticketing Ecosystem @onopenxyz]

While a thrifty fan on TikTok exposes a classic Ticket Cartel™ trick, OPEN launches a membership to the ticket revolution.

AND it's basically free.

You claim your OPEN Pass for $25 and you instantly get $20 in $OPN tokens. Holding those tokens is how you will profit from the downfall of the Ticketmaster and their colluding befriended companies.

Claim your ticket to the ticket revolution!

[Rep. Ritchie Torres @RepRitchie]

I confronted SEC Chair Gary Gensler with a deceptively simple question: Is a Yankee ticket a security?

Mr. Gensler claims that NFTs are securities. I see no legal difference between a Yankee ticket that offers access to a Yankee game and an NFT that offers access to an animated web series (as in the case of Stoner Cats). Mr. Gensler is misclassifying collectibles, art, and tickets as securities.

[Onchain Ticketing Alliance (NFT) @NftTickets]

#Ticketmaster what’s @edsheeran saying here? I think that makes perfect sense. Help the community spread the word around new ways of ticketing and even funding a gig #OnChain: @onopenxyz

@LewisCapaldi already used them once to fund a gig. 7 mln fans already used them to attend a gig 👇
https://t.co/pxDDVm2uGd

#Oasis #Ticketing $OPN #Fans #NFT
#FuckScalping #FuckTouts

[Onchain Ticketing Alliance (NFT) @NftTickets]

Great interview. Listened to the whole interview with @larrysmiller as provided by @RuncieDan. I also looked up the @Variety article.

[Dan Runcie @RuncieDan]

Why breaking up Ticketmaster and Live Nation won't lower ticket prices for fans.

Here’s why from NYU professor @larrysmiller

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

we've seen lots experimentation around the obvious stages of the ticketing user journey—checking in, while you're at the event, after the event.

and i think we're all tired of the same twist on ticketing—the ticket stub as an nft or whatever.

at best, it adds incremental value for a resellers and collectors, no value for the avg consumer, and creates a burden for the organizer to continue appealing to stub holders.

i could be wrong, ignorant or naive.

however, i do think there's an under explored design space around event discovery though.

buying/rsvp-ing onchain to a single event anywhere and everywhere is a feature that's uniquely crypto (also known as interoperability).

the point of purchase is not only made ubiquitous across ticketing platforms, but it's ubiquitous across any platform.

with things like @solana blinks, any surface area on the internet can become a place to discover and purchase or rsvp.

whether it's resharing a point-of-purchase/rsvp on social media or a group chat, getting a push noti in @interfacedapp and @floor when people you follow rsvp, finding an event in a substack or email, in your maps app, while streaming on spotify, on an artist's website, in your calendar... etc.

it enables both discovery and conversion **anywhere**.

i think the real novelty isn't making a better ticketing platform, it's eliminating the need for them entirely.

and crypto makes this possible.

[CristianoXtra @CristianoXtra_]

How can you watch Cristiano Ronaldo and still prefer Messi?

[TRAVIS SCOTT @trvisXX]

BUT I WILL NEVER COME BACK TO HAMBURG. SIMPLY BECAUSE THE AIRPORT PEOPLE ARE JUST WEIRD.

[Solana @solana]

Today, we connect Solana to the entire internet.

Vote, Donate, Mint, Swap, Pay — use Solana, everywhere.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

This is brilliant 😂

https://t.co/kjV462p6Kr

[0xDesigner @0xDesigner]

this is why i love crypto so much.

fred again is playing his first stadium show, the biggest of his career after his meteoric rise.

before the show, he personally tracked down the 150 people that attended in 2021 before he blew up and invited them to a secret listening party.

if ticketing was onchain, fred would always know who his early fans were and which shows they attended without needing to rely on ticketmaster, dice, etc.

at its core, onchain ticketing is basically a public database of attendance that no single company can own or gate keep.

it’s not always about coins and they’re prices.

sure, if you had a ticket to one of fred’s early shows you could probably sell it for a lot of money.

but…

not only would fred be able to immediately identify you as an early fan, but he’d also be able to automatically send an invitation to one of these secret shows.

he could program conditions around the invitation too. for example, he could say every person that attended my first LA show will receive a NON-TRANSFERABLE ticket to my secret listening party (as a way to combat toxic resellers).

he could perform in any city and program merch sales so that anyone that attended a previous show gets free merch.

you can probably imagine an infinite number of scenarios. there are so many creative possibilities for artists to express their gratitude for early fans.

and on the flip side, it gives fans the opportunity to express their gratitude too.

i personally traveled to multiple cities just to see fred perform on his 2022 tour.

i wish i had a way to prove that and signal my fandom, even if it had no financial upside.

i haven’t thought too deeply about why exactly but it feels good to make my enthusiasm for his music known.

his music has powered a lot of memories that mean a lot to me.

we’re a ways away from this happening, but i hope someday he’ll continue creatively rewarding his early fans. and i hope im one of them. and i hope its tokenized so i can brag about it.

[OPEN Ticketing Ecosystem @onopenxyz]

Bold Statement: There's no better fit for #onchain utility than for tickets❗️

Why? Because the benefits on offer match perfectly with the entire lifecycle of a ticket and it's truly the only way to break monopolies and restore control to organizers and artists.

Here's how:

1 - Financing 💡

The very existence of ticketing monopolies occurs because they control financing for event organizers and artists of all shapes and sizes - 'he who controls the revenue controls the world'

Many artists sign their soul away with multi-year contracts in order to finance their events or tours and there's simply no other way... until now.

Blockchains happen to be the only real public infrastructure that can amass as much or more TVL than public ticketing company balance sheets. #DeFi event financing finally opens up ways to finance events without giving away the keys to the kingdom.

It's now finally game on: https://t.co/TUg2Dg91Lh

2 - Transparency 💡

Tickets sold out in 30 seconds? Hmm did they really get sold in the first place or just reserved for a secondary market, to hike prices 10000%? With centralised ticketing you'd never know, with onchain ticketing, you do.

See it for yourself: https://t.co/yUC2PMue5O

3 - Controlling Primary & Secondary Sales 💡

The magic of smart contracts is a beautiful thing. You can finally set the rules of a ticket sale on a contract level no matter where that ticket is sold, primary or secondary sale, it's unparalleled control for event organizers and artists.

4 - Cherish your event like its 1999

One of the few benefits of physical tickets was the ability to atleast take home a keepsake after that magical festival or lifetime act. Nowadays you just get a worthless PDF you forget about in a heartbeat.

Not any more! We're talking digital collectibles taken to the extreme. Artists and Organizers can evolve collectibles with moments from an event, drop unreleased music, animate signatures and more.

Just check out an example we did with @DermotKennedy a while ago:

https://t.co/Xe3Y2ficXa

5 - A Lasting Connection to stand the Test of Time

Collectibles go beyond cherishing, they're an authentication tool too. An organizer or artist can know exactly what events you've been to and provide you access into digital content gated for event attendees.

Been to 1 event? Get access to a community channel.
Been to 5 events? Here's some exclusive merch.
10 events?!? Here's a 1 on 1 meet and greet.

These assets become an ever evolving community building tool that brings artists and fans closer together than ever before.

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All this to say, if you're ever wondering how onchain utility can truly impact everyday people -- then the answer is with a ticket!

#NFT Tickets / Onchain Tickets whatever you'd like to call them, they are the present and the future of the events industry and we're working day in, day out to make this a worldwide reality ❤️

[TICKETSHELP1 @Ticket_Help2022]

Feel terrible for all the fans who bought tickets for UFC 303 on the secondary market. None of them will be able to get a refund.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

The intersection of AI with the ocean of mass surveillance data that's been building up over the past two decades is going to put truly terrible powers in the hands of an unaccountable few.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Stallman was right.

[jellyverse @jlyvrs]

It's time! DeFi 3.0

Coming to Sei on June 11th.

[Onchain Ticketing Alliance (NFT) @NftTickets]

⁦@billieeilish⁩, @Lorde and ⁦@GreenDay⁩ sign open letter petitioning for bill to protect fans from ticket scams.

At all three: why not embrace ⁦@onopenxyz⁩ that makes it unnecessary to petition against scams. It simple won’t be possible. https://t.co/abibBNhMYE

[Decentralized Ticketing @NFT_Ticketing]

🎟️ 1/5 NFT Ticketing Revolution 🚀
The event tickets market is booming, projected to hit $85B-$100B by 2024! As the industry evolves, NFT ticketing emerges as a game-changer, offering unparalleled benefits to event organizers and artists worldwide. Let's dive into why....