https://time.com/6158182/vitalik-buterin-ethereum-profile/
Ethereum is a way to leverage the blockchain technology underlying Bitcoin for all sorts of uses other than currency, Buterin dreamed of it nine years ago.
A fairer voting system, urban planning, basic income, public works projects, are examples of the kind of sociopolitical experimentation which can be based on Ethereum.
In an email to TIME, Buterin writes that ultimately the goal of crypto is not to play with million dollar monkey images, but to do something meaningful in the real world.
Note the purpose of the blockchain, not just to play game with it!!