Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum's core value is a "public bulletin board".

CoinFeed reported on March 12 that Vitalik Buterin recently published an article stating that Ethereum's core purpose is not smart contracts or payments, but rather to act as a "public bulletin board," providing a publicly readable and writable data availability layer for cryptographic protocols such as voting, certificate revocation, and version control. He also stated that ETH can serve as an anti-Syllabic payment tool, while smart contracts are a shared programming layer and a tool for executing deposits.