Earlier this summer, as Lin-Manuel Miranda prepared to take his final bow as the star of Broadway's Hamilton, a thought kept nagging him. Ticket scalpers had reportedly used electronic "bots" to snatch up more than 20,000 Hamilton tickets as soon as they went on sale. Resellers charged an average of $1,000 per seat, according to one estimate – more than twice
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