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The simple solution to getting fans rather than grifters is to make the tickets cost something other than money. Time is a nice obvious cost element to add.

If only we could channel that time more productively (and in a more palatable way) than having people wait in line.




Taylor Swift did do something a bit like this this for a previous tour - you could get early access to the ticket sales by doing various kinds of fan activities, including buying physical copies of her records, watching videos, and posting on social media [1]. People were kind of mad about it, although I think in part that was because the "fan activities" that gave you the best chance to get tickets were the ones that also involved buying things.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/31/bad-blood-is-t...


How would you measure/trade time? Other than with the approximation of using money.


Sounds analogous to mining cryptocurrency with proof-of-work.




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