> In practice, most conferences don't want to allow transferable tickets because it ends up with a scalper situation. In practice, whether or not scalpers exis

> In practice, most conferences don't want to allow transferable tickets because it ends up with a scalper situation. In practice, whether or not scalpers exist is of very little relevance to most conferences, because... > The scalper will annoy everyone and take any money that would otherwise go to conference. ...that money wasn't going to go to the conference anyway, because the conference is charging less than the market price (i.e. what the scalper is able to get away with charging). That money would go to the conference if the conference did charge the market price... and then the scalpers wouldn't have any margins left and therefore would have no reason to be scalpers anyway. As for "annoy everyone", in practice that's also of very little relevance once the conference actually has your money. The only people it'd annoy are the ones trying to buy tickets, and it'd only be particularly annoying if scalpers were the only option - i.e. if the conference was already sold out, and therefore had already taken as much money as it possibly could. ---- The more reasonable answer for why conferences don't want transferable tickets is because they often tie tickets to attendees' identities (e.g. photo ID) and that connection becomes impractical unless the conference is actively involved in the transfer process. The reasons for that are partially addressed through NFTs (namely: wanting to ensure that it's an authentic ticket that actually belongs to you), but also partially not addressed (namely: security, especially if you have particularly-high-profile speakers and/or attendees).