• Chozo@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Just buy the shit from the trusted party who manages that transactional history in a database developed with 60 year old technology

    I think you just accidentally explained the advantage to NFT passes for this situation. You don’t have to trust them, because the clockchain ledger validates your pass, irrespective of whatever party is managing it.

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      10 months ago

      But you still need to show up at a gate with a guy in front of it who will either let you in or not let you in. And that guy is a trusted centralized authority. Just have him issue you the pass and be done with it.

      An NFT only certifies that you have an NFT. Nothing certifies that the NFT can be used for any physical purpose. The nature of the physical world is that there’s only one seat 1F at the concert you want to go to. I can sell as many NFTs as I want that all claim to represent the fact that you can sit in seat 1F, and you each have a cryptographically signed proof that that’s exactly what I sold you. You still can’t all sit in one chair, and there’s going to be someone in charge of the venue who decides what happens. And once you have someone in charge of the venue who can decide what happens, just let that person sell the tickets. You all have to trust him anyway.