And the fact that a painting is not reproducible. The best you can get is close to the original, but it will still be different because its the real world. Copi

And the fact that a painting is not reproducible. The best you can get is close to the original, but it will still be different because its the real world. Copies of digital assets are exact replicas. Thus, the only real value is, as you say, provenance, but I think much fewer people care about that than we all seem to think.