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A tag or a sticker with a piece of paper with an expert opinion attached to the item provides provenance. An NFT provides a way to harm the environment.

To you down-voters: this was a serious question. I have heard that NFTs are used to provide provenance for collectables and artwork. So based on cursory knowledge, this would seem to be a use case. What am I missing?

A little more education and a little less snark and vitriol, please.

I think it could, create an Association of X with some sort of DAO/governed organization that only allows you to mint NFTs if you are part of the Association. They do the vetting.

As for it "hurts the environment", that depends on your blockchain. PoS, nope. PoW/PoST, maybe but it depends.

Edit: Also for non-mom/pop shops NFTs are probably huge. Getting a provable NFT w/ your shoes for example will raise the level of difficulty for mass-producing knock offs substantially.

What? How do you come even remotely to the conclusion this is a problem pop would solve?

No.