I don't think the NIST paper actually acknowledges ANY use cases. It does a fair job of pointing out the Oracle Problem, which is overlooked or underestimated by many, many crypto enthusiasts (and, IMHO, investors).

Currency is a real use case (there's an existence proof), and NFTs could be considered a use case, if being a "digital collector" could be considered useful and not just another way to perform pump-and-dump scams.

>There is no anti-blockchain attitude here.

This is extremely disingenuous. When I made that comment there were three others, all to the effect of "I hope the government steps in and squashes all the work being done on this utterly useless technology."

That is extremely disingenuous. Those comments were not anti-blockchain but rather anti-cryptocurrency. There is a difference.

Cryptocurrency is a particular implementation of blockchain. Those comments gave me no reason to think they were only talking about that subset (I'm also perfectly comfortable moving the goalposts anyways so the point is moot).