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What is your background in IT? I briefly explained that a database is not "just" a database when it comes to building a marketplace/exchange, there is a ton of infrastructure and code. The problem is that it is all proprietary and not following any kind of open standard. In comparison, the database schema for "checking in" to an event is dead simple: (ticket id, checked in). You could literally print off paper and do it analog if you wanted, it's that simple. If you tell me your background maybe I can make a more specific analogy, but the infrastructure + code + database schema for a marketplace is like the difference between a golf cart and an F1 car. Or a grocery checklist and a novel. These are many orders of magnitude different.
Why bother? Because it sucks paying fees. Literally billions of dollars extracted by middleware companies. Every stupid ass website is charging fees for everything because it's all centralized crap. My wife wanted to go to a popular musical, and for 5 tickets I'm paying literally an extra ticket worth in "convenience fees". I paid for a couple more tickets for my siblings to join, and they ended up not being able to make it day of. I posted them on StubHub and one sold for less than value (and more fees!), and the other didn't.
The "general problem" of ticketing infrastructure - generating, marketplace, exchanging - has been solved with an NFT open standard at a fraction of the cost in comparison to what these parasitic companies are extracting. Why bother? Because I'm tired of our fees culture.
You can replace the middlemen without involving Blockchain.
I am not saying the problem doesn't exist, I'm saying Blockchain is overly complicated, inflexible and superfluous.
Whatever solution you design with Blockchain, I can redesign without Blockchain without losing anything -- and gaining simplicity.