&gt; Ethereum has been out for 7 months already and so far there have been no useful or popular dapps.<p>I think that&#x27;s a valid criticism- I, too, am a bit disappointed that there are few contracts yet with obvious utility.<p>However, as someone deep in the community and talking to lots of people, it seems there&#x27;s going to be tons of interesting dapps deployed in the next 6 months. Hopefully there will be a &quot;killer dapp&quot; among them.<p>&gt; And how is Ethereum is more secure than a properly setup VPS?<p>If I store money on your VPS-based app, how can I be assured you can&#x27;t steal it from me? If I use a feature on your VPS, how can I be sure you won&#x27;t disable it tomorrow? Ethereum can provide these sorts of guarantees.