Humble beginnings, bright futures

As you can read in this blog covering our efforts and ambitions to ensure that GET will not only be necessary to fuel theater tickets in The Netherlands but for events all over the globe. Huge steps are being made as we speak to on-board ticketing companies worldwide to use the protocol and make people aware tickets can actually be sold fairly and easily without middlemen scalping their cut(or chunk).

More than 1 BILLION CD-ROMs of this kind where produced.

This first buy-back acquisition is just the beginning of a continuous stream of market demand. Like the ‘1000 Hours of free internet CD-ROM’ of AOL kick-started mainstream usage of internet back-in-day, making access to the web easy and understandable for the average Joe. We believe that our approach mirrors that of the the CD-ROM. Allowing for non tech savvy consumers to use a blockchain service without knowing how it all works under the hood. Remember, people aren’t even aware they have an Ethereum wallet and make use of an ERC20 token when they are interacting with smart tickets sold by GUTS Tickets (see a list of all events we are currently ticketing for here).

Yet all these people do use a blockchain driven infrastructure when buying, selling and verifying their ticket. Even more important they love the end result! In addition; people that don’t know they own GET can’t sell, so they’re HODLRs by default ;). Perfect.

We are very excited you’re with us on this! As with the CD-ROM of AOL we fully expect to make a lot of drastic changes and radical improvements in how we deliver our blockchain powered ticketing service/protocol in the future. Of course I know the CD-ROM eventually got replaced with a better way of getting people on the web. The end goal of this tool; connecting people and businesses on the world wide web, remained the same for every on-boarding succeeding the CD-ROM. The same goes for the blockchain protocol we are building. While we will most definitely change the way how we expose and further involve actors in the ticketing sphere, our intended end result; a transparent, secure and fundamentally honest ticketing industry will consistently be our end goal.

Transparent ticketing. Forever and always, until the heat death of the universe do us part. Amen.

And now I’m off to Asia to spread our gospel of transparent ticketing. I’ll be back soon with more words, formulas and additional contextual information about what we are building here in Amsterdam. But for now this is it, so long!