Recently bought abit of eth as im sick of the government fiat money where our purchasing power of dollar keeps declining. This is the definition of ethereum i googled online...so here goes.....Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.
Ethereum Project
https://www.ethereum.org
Keyword is decentralised and i like anything not controlled by government.