Will Ethereum succeed?

[perfectnsphere]

The actual product of Ethereum (the unstoppable world computer) doesn't seem to be taking off. People are buying into the idea as evidenced by the rising price of ether but I don't see a lot of compelling reasons to use Ethereum myself.

I think of things I might want from Ethereum:

1. open government

2. decentralized government databases

3. seeing "power" move away from central authorities

4. unstoppable apps

5. a potential way for me, as a developer, to make money

and right off the bat I can tell you no one at all cares about the first three in their own right. Ethereum seems like it has a lot of potential but I still don't get it.

Is Ethereum going to succeed?

[modbait]

Well, first off, they need to standardize on the spelling... ;-)

[perfectnsphere]

I blame our odd way of typing (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17183561).