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Have really been thinking this for a quite a while now, those whitepaper of any projects really tells us what the project all about. Are they transparent enough to have every project goals in the whitepaper. A lots of projects are out there with nice whitepaper but they eventually failed.  How come, what causes the failure?

some time ago i would have read the whitepapers and cared about what they have written in it but last year when i started seeing these developers looking for "paper writers" i realized most of them don't even write their own whitepaper for their own project!!!
they pay someone else to write it for them and make it look good. most of them include hyped up subjects like "scaling" in their paper to just get a better pump.

In the beginning, I will believe that if you are deceived then you will not believe or say that you will be more cautious. White papers can also be imitated. All things can be spent to make you believe that it is true. All can't just look at the white paper.

Of course not, I don't 100% believe the whitepaper. As it writes in the whitepaper that, the whitepaper is just a focus and willing thing, they don't promised it will become true.

So whitepaper is just a way to justice a product, people should do other research about the project.

Of course not, they can write whatever they want in the whitepaper but you can roughly guess whether it is possible to do or not, it's not that rare to see a very ambitious whitepaper, they want to do a lot of thing and make something big but in my opinion it's not possible to do right now or with their team as they don't have the experience in the required field.

Scam most a times looks like Legit. White paper can be written by any Technical Marketer, One shouldn't depend on mere written words. it should not be seen as a prove of legitimacy, or advice.

This is definitely true but a poor whitepaper is also a definite proof of a scam ICO.
Whitepaper gives a general concept of how the token works but deciding how feasible and possible it is is upto the investors themselves.

More so, we have also seen some projects that have a good and successful projects that follows there whitepaper infact lot's of them

Base on the the topic and subject you created I understand that reading a whitepaper tells you about the project. Base on what I know and experienced yes because it is like an etinerary, a plan of the ICO itself as well as for the uploaded video about the platform. Therefore do not be afraid but just be carefull and be wise as well.

Still who really knows about those hidden agenda were the ICO hides the true work make a sentence and it does have its hidden works. Also in connection with your topic "scams" that may have a platform and a agenda to still money.

Most of the project really doing what is written on their white paper, But to be honest I usually don't read the white paper of the company, I usually check if their project really is progressing or not.

I'm too lazy to read white paper because there is a lot of useless information. I'm looking at the team and the presence of a prototype.

Whitepaper is just about explaining a project.
real success will be achieved with the strength of a team and a solid community. because those two things can build a project well.

I still check Wp to know about the project, field, development team, ... It is still the first place I watch, of course now the Wp of the same project can be up to 70% a lot.

To choose ICO, not only need to read the whitepaper. It is also necessary to pay attention to other nuances. But when I read the whitepaper. In large cases, I understand whether the project will be a scum or not.

The marketing team with lack of promotion could be the cause of the failure of the ICO project. The project ICO a good but never promoting ICO project is just as useless as promotions are the most important thing to find investors.

One of the main reason why a certain project fails. I also noticed that in every ICO projects today, but not all, there are also quite a good team who built everything with their own including writing their own whitepaper.
Some investors nowadays didnt even care to read the white paper, instead they follow the project in social media and telegram and read the interactions between the team/dev and investors. It would be better that way so you could raise questions outright.

First of all having a Excellent,Good,Nice Whitepaper may not indicates that it will succeed. From what i know the causes of failure are also found in whitepaper like if it's the goal attainable based on the whitepaper and What type of coin, are there any the same concept. Total coins, the fewer the better, Fundraising goal( below $50m is good) and What will happen to unsold coins.

Only reading whitepapers do not inform you of the credibility of a project, time will tell if a team will be able to respect and succeed in achieving the goals they put in their roadmap. Anyone can ask a 'papers writers' to write a beautiful and promising whitepaper, then, create an ERC20 token, a website and launch an ico that's one of the reasons why projects fail because from the beginning they were not created to succeed.

It all depends on the project team.Whitepaper here plays a very small role. Although basically a well-written white document almost always coincides with the success of the project.

Well you can't believe it 100% , but you can see does that project have any sense and could that project work. If don't understand it, or you are not here for long to understand how the things work, than google some websites that are watching new ICO's and ranking them. See also if you can find some thread here on this forum.

I do not use whitepaper as the basis if the project is good or not. Whitepaper is easy to do, you just type what running on your mind, amazing idea, great plan but thats not the most important what if it all just good idea but poor in development. Better to regard your analysis in the team activities then after finding good news. Read whitrpaper to know what everything.

Note: whitepaper can be copied, just write any idea
           Just use to know what our the plans ,   

Not 100% but it gives you insight of the project and team, so its very important to read about it.

In the past, when companies were at least scrambled to the account of white paper, it was clear that they were ready to go further and that the project could be considered for investment, now again it is used for deception, I certainly did not come across some wild scum, but still , Be carefull.

Of course I'm not, just the same as in every other area of project documentary, developers can write in white paper whatever they want. So white paper is not the truth of all truths also, you need to believe but to examine.

Whitepaper is never the problem. There are people behind every idea, so if somebody is responsible for a projects  failure - it is the team. Also, some institutional regulations can occur in the process of a project’s development.

This just shows that it takes more than a whitepaper for a project to be successful. Considering it is well prepared, it takes a good team to execute what is written. And a good team will also need a good support (funds). Other cause of failure may also be changes in government regulations. 

The white paper of the project is the main document containing and revealing the idea of the project, the reasons for the ICO, the essence of the project, its goals and objectives, the technical description of the project and the relationship with the blockchain and smart contracts. Believe the white paper or not everyone decides for himself. Now there are people and entire companies that are engaged in the development of projects and the ICO is to collect money, without further development. You can write a white paper for a scam project very well, and not every specialist will suspect a fraud.In addition to white paper, there must be a team with an impeccable reputation, open social networks and able to answer any question about the white paper of the project.

The whitepaper is of fundamental importance for understanding the quality and potential of a project, but this document can not guarantee the success of the blockchain platform. Each project must have a good team with high quality advisors, and above all a certain amount of investors who finance it to achieve its target

Whitepaper plan are just plan if they are not been executed as it should. For anything to happen to any project in terms of development, there must be believers in such project. If enough people believe in the ideas of project, such project will have human resource and energy to push forward to development!

Everyone wants to explain their project ideally. I never fully believe Whitepapers because they sell imaginations.
When examining the project, we must examine many different influences together. Social media, team and so on...

This is the summarily of it all. They include hyped subjects like scaling they know the space needs at this time just to wow people who care to read the whitepapers, but they never have any concrete plans to execute it. The crypto world is awash with so many of these kind of projects and it's so unfortunate.

witepaper of different projects to me is more like reading the abstract idea of what the developer had in mind. it doesn't necessarily mean they have achieved what they are introducing in their whitepaper. it just means they tried or at lest pretended to try to achieve it.

sometimes you end up seeing a cool project like Byteball and sometimes you end up seeing a lot of shitty ICOs with well written papers!

Whitepaper are useful to gain an understanding about what the project is preposing to do. They will not however give you the ability to determine if the project is viable or if the people behind are competent and honest enough to bring it to completion. I treat them as a marketing document designed to get me to invest and treat everything in them with a degree of scepticism until I can confirm that information from a reliable third party source. Always do your own due diligence before investing.

Of course not, some or most of the whitepapers are just being copy pasted in others legitimate work. The whitepaper is the main concept of a certain project it shows here how the project will implement, how the project works, etc. all the information can be found here but it doesn't mean that it can become true since it's just a piece of documents with full of words so it's really like a gambling when choosing an ICO since you don't know whether that project will be stay as word or become true.

The whitepaper is the most important document that you should read before making any investments to make sure that the project is legit and that there is a use case and need for that particular coin or token.

The whitepaper is there to give an overview of what the project is about, nowhere does it say that all information in it is true (most of the time it is included in the disclaimer). Hence, I don't believe in it fully. In retrospect, some whitepaper looks professional and credible but in fact it is a scam.

If they are ICO developers really have a goal to make the ICO a success not only after the ICO is finished should they really be a whitepaper. Which I know, many token projects are only successful after ICO is complete but after its token declines its price or even dead. So I have a conclusion if the tokens can not fight in the market then they just make a scam project.

I think that nothing can actually guarantee that ICO project is legit, even whitepaper. I believe that a well-developed project can make you assume that ICO is worthy...

The white paper is only a reference, and it can be used to find out whether the team's thinking structure is complete and reasonable, and how feasible it is from real use, including the explanation of the principle. If these are reasonable, then the project will be easy to implement.

Because of many project we can't say if the whitepaper is just a copy, commonly they have more than 10pages, we all know it would take time so we can't read it fully, unless you will do some service or promotion for them so you should read the whitepaper for better understanding.

I don'y really believe but whitepaper show what the project is, we can also get information anywhere on their social sites. we can choose whether to believe  it or not.

the whitepaper is part of it and its very function is to convince investors to join in it. are indeed not entirely whitepaper becomes the main reference point but at least many of the factors that made him important whitepaper. but there are certainly other things to watch out for to analyze such as seen in the team member who is running behind it.

What would be the top three-five things you look at?

Whitepaper? Team? Advisors? MVP? Marketing?

White paper is just a beautiful text. If you really look at things you can understand that this will not protect our investments. White paper is used only for beautiful words about the project.         
         
         

White paper can't be a transparent document. White paper is a presentation document that should sell, not explain, here is its purpose. White paper can't be a single tool for good selling, an integrated approach is needed.

Of course not, it's just a way for you to understand the project, so it's the platform for you to ask the project team, self-verify whether it is future or feasible in the future. Many of the projects are just a cake picture, and you know what the future of the cake picture is like

In the world of crypto-currencies, you can not trust anyone or anything. Including white paper, which is constantly changing something. Very often many projects copy each other's white papers and do not follow the described plan, which is contained there. This is not credible.

Literally project fails when they pay some firm to write up juicy whitepaper to entice and gather volumes for ico
Only to elope and run off with made Etherum or bitcoin  after token sale had ended and exchange listing

It’s not about the whitepaper, there are alot of things  to be figured out about a project

The most important thing is to be able to extract the main essence from the white paper of the project. Pay more attention to the technical aspects described in this document, since if everything is in order there, then ICO will most likely be successful.

Of course not. Do you think that many people read white paper? People often just check its availability and this is enough. It seems to me that this business is really necessary and we very often are not right.

Obviously not, you shouldn't really believe anything 100%, especially in crypto. Normally easy to read between the lines though.

Projects with the purpose or have a good whitepaper can fail, I think it's due to several factors, one of which is the team and the project advisor. Who is the team in it? Is ordinary people only. That's what everyone needs to know. Because it is very influential on the project.

      Plenty of ICO project having a very good platform as we see in the white paper but unfortunately in the long run the project was failed, maybe the team was not able to develop of what is written in the platform, and the other reason is maybe they did not able to reach the soft cap, due to no investors are interested in the project

Crypto money projects are growing day by day. But many projects are unnecessary or SCAM. Moreover, the whitepaper does not tell anything and can accumulate millions of dollars of investment.

Of course not. I don't believe in all WP of every ICO project cause I know that there are so many ICO projects have fake WP or they copied WP from another ICO project then just fix some words to make it become their own project WP :)). Beside I don't know how many percents of ICO investors care about reading ICO project WP :))

They fail because most of them are just lies, to decieve us and to take it as an advantage, but if you can analayze wisely you can determine the real ones to the fake ones. If the whitepaper is too good to be true, it is just a lie.

I don't believe in any WP of any project. I just care about their token price after being listed on exchange :). There are so many ICO projects have very good Whitepaper but their tokens price after being listed on exchange is always lower than ICO price and seem like they don't really care about it and don't have any idea about pumping price of their tokens :). Don't believe in WP cause they can easily pay hundreds dollars to rent a professional writer to create a WP for their project

Because the ICO is currently a lot of platforms similar to other projects, that's where the project may fail. and to choose a good ICO I not only see from whitepaper but see from the team, developers and what products they will offer.

In General, white paper is the main document about the project, which can be trusted. I don't think that's enough for investment. In General, for me the main indicator is the trust of other crypto investors

Have truly been reasoning this for an a long time now, those whitepaper of any tasks truly reveals to us what the venture about. Are they sufficiently straightforward to have each task objectives in the whitepaper. A loads of undertakings are out there with decent whitepaper yet they in the end fizzled. Why, what causes the disappointment?

Of course not. Now many ICO projects copy text from other projects. If you read this text, there is only a set of general phrases and common intentions and little that is concrete. Therefore, if we read such non-specific documents, this is just a testimony that the project is fraudulent or at least poorly prepared.
However, among such projects, sometimes there are good projects with fresh ideas, but one needs to look for a long time.

First of all , it's yes I believe the whitepaper since this is our reference of the information of the project but with regard to progress or failure, it's another story , because it depend on the team's ability on how  they will work the project and how they will handle every problem encountered .

Very often Whitepaper doesn't tell about all the details of the project. It outlines the main goals and objectives of the project, the essence, the main points. But there are no details, and the details are often the decisive factors of the project. If these details characterize the developers in  a bad way, they aren't included in the Whiteaper.

To attract more attention, people write beautiful white paper with good goals and ambitious goals in order to raise more money  :D

Whitepaper is the only document detailing the project. And I always read Whitepaper when the project interests me. If the Whitepaper is written in tongue-tied or short, or doesn’t give a complete description of the project, I ignore such a project. So for me Whitepaper is the decisive document for investing.

Whitepaper is the content of the whole explanation of the project. From there we can know the contents of the project. Ranging from project explanation, mission vision, roadmap, token explanation until the team is in it.
if you read the vision and mission is good but the team is not considered you can also deceived in the project. still have to be smart in choosing ico that we will follow.

The whitepaper explain about their project and what they are trying to do so if you think that it's impossible to do then you shouldn't invest in the project. Some project pay a professional to write their whitepaper to make it look better but sometimes you will know because the writing style is similar, also ask them questions about the project and if they can answer it with no problem then they know what they are doing.

Whitepapers are made to clarify all their purpose and project. One of the major problem of one investors is not satified with the paper. If the project fails it sims to be one of it or maybe the team needs to be. Many of the project that their whitepapers are not from them they just pay from it just to release that they have it one. Read it mostly if have time you will knew whats theres secret.

Yes of course, I do believe to the whitepaper with hundred percent in any projects of them
because they are one of the trusted source of information that can help every investors to know which is the best.

If you really understand this project and read the white paper, you need to be very careful and get into all the details of the project in order to verify whether these are true documents or it's a deception.

No, I do not believe 100% of what is stated in the whitepapers.  There are too many factors involves and projects rarely hit the deadlines they put out in the whitepaper.  Read the whitepaper for a general review of the vision of the project.

Of course I can't trust anything 100% because it's a very complicated and unpredictable field. Cryptocurrency can collapse at any time and I think that you need to trust, but check

You can not be 100 percent sure of any project, each of them can be scams. And no you will not be able to guarantee that you will get your money back, it needs to be remembered

     Nobody really believes in the whitepaper. They may, however, contribute to the choice of a high potential investment project. Every detail is important. However, it is recommended that when investing significant amounts of money, read the whitepaper completely.

really? I also feel there are many similarities from whitepaper to one another. it looks like it looks exactly the same. it can be tried to test the developers of the project whether they make their own whitepaper or tell others to make their whitepapers look good

Whitepaper is just an ordinary paper that tells the plans of an ico. There's no way you could judge if they are telling the truth. So believe whitepaper at your own peril.

Do we have a reason not to trust white paper? This is what shows the very essence of the project, written professionally and efficiently. Why should I doubt an official professional document?

Although the whitepaper really gives us a clear insight of the project, but believing it 100% might be difficult, but at least a large amount of the details contained there are accurate and believable.

Yes of course, i do believe to any projects of whitepaper with hundred percent
because they ability are proven to the public because they are one of the trusted source of information in this business.

No, i dont partly believe what was written in the whitepaper, not all of them were true. Of you noticed there are projects who hires someone who could write for there white paper. That alone will be an indication that, everything you see in the whitepaper is partly not true because it is written by a different person while the owner of the project is also a different person.

Gone are those days when whitepapers used to matter. Not like investors care much about it these days. Only very few people that invests in a project actually read the whitepaper. Even those that do, don't read till the end. When investing in any ico, I keep it at the back of my mind that a well written whitepaper doesn't equal a successful project. These days, It's all about the hype.

I honestly don't read the white papers of any project I have invested in.  Just being real about it.  I know most will call you a complete ahole for it but from what I'm seeing the great projects fail to deliver with huge price increase and the bad projects rocket up on a hype pump.  I think there is way more interesting things to look for in a project than a white paper.

personally, by looking at the whitepaper then we will know all about the project. like the concept, the token supply, and the team who handles. that way we will be able to understand about the project that will be followed. there are many reasons why the projects fail, such as the promotions that not maximal and unattractive concepts. then by looking at whitepaper, we can see everything.

When analyzing the ICO project, you need to pay attention not only to white paper, but also to other important factors. If you only pay attention to white paper, you can get on a project that fails.

i do not always believe whitepapers 100%, but it is already a good overview of a project. one can already use a whitepaper as an information source, but not always believe everything and do your own research to be save.

IMO nowadays it is more for us hard to believe on that, because there are lot of ICO project that seems like they just sell the whitepapper rather than the product. I cant say all the project with great whitepapper will fail, but only few of this will survive. Sometimes what I do when I invested on some ICO project is by looking how they are treating the community & how accurate their roadmap are.

A whitepaper is pretty important, but it's not the end to all, that's for sure.  There are companies that businesses can hire to write their whitepapers, so no matter what, any decent company can have a good whitepaper, it doesn't really mean all that much.  Learn about the team, get a sense of whether they really have a vision and clear purpose of where they are going.  That'll be a good start.

In as much as a whitepaper is somewhat a form of guide to understanding the project itself, I don't believe in whitepapers 100%. Most projects, fail to meet up with their fancy whitepaper promises and such a thing destroys the project. I take whitepaper without a working product to show for it as a bunch of fancy promises presented on a paper.

obviously not because whitepaper can still be faked . there are also ico's that only copies other infos on other ico because they are only a scam .  but there are also legit ico's that meant to be trusted , therfor reading their whitepapers and any other important info is still verry beneficial and will help you to be more aware about the concept of thier project .

When considering a project, I pay attention to their white paper. But I can not believe 100% on it because every project is ambitious and they find an argument to persuade investors to believe in their project. In addition to the white paper, I also pay attention to many other issues such as the actual activities of the team, the activities of the project, the reaction of the community ...

I think, there is no need for any investor or trader to believe 100% on a whitepaper. Whitepapers are just a means of communicating the goals of the project to their prospective investors. It comes with many promises which most times don't get actualized. A 100% trust on a whitepaper can be disastrous.

I've been looking at ICOs for a few months now, and I've always read their whitepaper. But they are not indicative of the level of success of the ICOs. However, there are some characteristics of the whitepaper that would give me reassurance and persuade me to put hope into the ICO's success, namely the details given in how the ICO will implement its features. I mean, some people didn't even explain how they would achieve whatever they are promising. I don't know if that's just to protect "company secret", but I take it as "empty promises".

Having said that, I will come out and say that I lack experiences when compared to many of the members here. I found some of the replies here interesting, too. I hope you guys can help me understand more, specifically on these:



Hi Camster and _CryptoBrain, what other aspects of an ICO would you recommend newbie pay attention to? Also, do you have a standard of expectation for those criteria? (Maybe the team's marketing has to have 5 years of experience?)

actually not 100% I believe. But at least with the whitepaper is very helpful to be able to get the information. The detailed information of a project that is of interest to us. So at the very least, the whitepaper is also one of the assessment that must be considered in choosing a project.

seriously. Trusting wholly on whitepaper is like loving blindingly you get hurt when you feel the real thing and that pain never goes away. The day you discover that the beautiful whitepaper you fell for was copied or was just a plot to take money from unsuspecting persons, you will feel bad. Whitepaper to me, is not a guide for investment decisions.

I think the reason for the failure is the reluctance of the team to further develop the project, or a very narrow idea that does not receive support from

There are some ICOs that looks promising, some of them are fulfilling what is written on their whitepaper and the great example are those successful altcoins. On the other hand, scam ICOs are unavoidable and their whitepapers were only made by ghost writers. I don't rely much on a platform's whitepaper and only keeping my eyes on how active they are to make the project a success.

of course I want to believe, but not always that we believe it is, I rely on white paper, but still need to think that white paper can be imitated.

The whitepaper is the key function of ICO which describe the project and future goals. Since past whitepapers are the most important thing investors are looking forward. But these days people pay less attention to them and many fake and low-quality ICOs destroys the spirit of Whitepaper. In that case, people do not pay much attention to it. Once I saw the complaint post which shows whitepaper full copy of another ICO. So these days we can put 100% trust about the whitepapers because of the scammers.

I always read the whithpaper to understand what this project is about and what terms of its implementation. However, you should not believe everything that there is written because a lot of scam projects had a high-quality whitepaper.

I will read the white paper and analyse whether the information make sense. Of course, we can’t rely on the white paper alone to make decision whether to invest or not. I will usually ask developer questions and look out for other factors.

Whitepaper is just the thing for you to clearly identify the idea of the project. It does not say the reliability of the project. I always read it, but I don't usually believe in it. The things you should pay attention to is the development team and their reputation, not whitepaper.

Although i read most whitepapers, i do not always believe everything written in them.
Its good to get an impression of a project, but the team can not implement always everything thats in the whitepaper.
Nevertheless, i still recommend to read the whitepaper.

If you don't believe in whitepaper why would you invest your time and money in that project? If I think they lie I will just skip that project.

Not believing in whitepaper does not mean not believing in the project. IMHO, we have to be more selective in choosing ICO project not only on the whitepaper, right?

Sometimes not all the project's thst have a whitepapers are legit some are scam but 80% of project with whitepapers are scam so always becareful when choosing any project.

Whitepaper is not enough to convince a good investor to invest in a project. Personally, whitepaper is only meant to give  me a point on the questions to ask the developers of ICOs, before investing. Only answers to questions will convince me.

Whitepaper is very useful to read but later on we can see if the project is progressing according to the WP.
Very often projects update their WPs as sometimes the development goes into other direction as it was written,
or there is a need for some modification. It is normal in any business.

Whitepaper is just a guide as to what the project is gonna offer, as in, their roadmap and this should not be used 100% to believe in the success of any ico.

Yes of course, I believe in whitepaper because you will know all the details everything you need to know about the currency before making up your mind if you want to invest. You will know all liked the commercial, technological and financial details of a new coin. So that whitepaper is important in a project, and you will know here if the project is worth it or not. Also whitepaper can help to those people whose not expert to identify the project if  it scam or not.

I think that's most of the guys here have not had any white paper in their life, including me. the funny fact about me that in my practice of investing and trading I've not read any white paper. You can write whatever there.

I do not trust Whitepaper. The team can write anything there whatever they want. I mostly check on staff and the product what is offered.

Well any project that have whitepapers are really upto something it shows how serious the are put that does not make me give them 100% trust.

Technical documentation is very important in project analysis . I pay attention to it very much to understand what this project is and what conditions for its implementation will be in the future

 White Paper is the one point from the list of others, and it also gives the understanding and even reputation of the whole project. More over very often you may understand wheather the idea of the project is realistic or not - because the technical side is widely presente there in good project. And it is easier to understand sometimes how the product will work and how it will becimplemented according to the roadmap. I pay attention to it as well as to other points - like the reputation of the team and their experience and others.

Of course, one can not blindly trust any white paper. We must at least study the team of developers and advisors. Still need a little understanding of the topic, in order to understand how realistically implemented things described in the white paper.

There are a lot of reasons for failure. It's no secret that most of the projects are doomed to failure and they just want to get investors' money, and they create a white paper to divert attention.

Yes, that's for sure.  White paper is not always a factor of successful ICO, because there very often everything is unrealistically beautifully described, and as a result, it does not work!

Why do I need a document ? To make it clear to future investors to invest in them. It helps to understand what the project product represents in the future and how they will develop. From all this information, the investor analyzes and concludes: to invest and if so, how much

Reasonably, they should be transparent to put down what goal they have to achieve because white paper seem like the power house but whether the project succeeds or not is a different thing entirely.


Whitepaper for me is like marketing the company. If an ico sees a reason to employ an expert hand to help them do a good job on the marketing department, I think it is not a bad idea.

I conduct different analysis of the project in which I am going to participate, and the technical document is one of the analyzed aspects of the company . This is very important for any project, as there is a plan for its development in the future. This is the is which is needed for investors and participants, so the document must be well-researched and described

Just reading a white book is not enough of a project's credibility, time will tell whether a team will be able to respect and succeed in achieving the goals they put in their roadmap. Anyone can ask a 'paper writer' to write a beautiful and promising newspaper, then, create an ERC20 token, a web page and launch the ico as one of the reasons why. The project failed because in the beginning they were not created for success.

Not exactly. I know that a lot of us like to think that a whitepeper is a good way to determine whether or not a project will be successful. While it does give insight to a project, it cannot exactly tell whether it truly would be successful or not. This is why I cannot base my confidence solely on just a whitepaper. Most of the scams in the market these days even have more convincing whitepapers.

The white paper itself normally contains a large disclaimer. I have seen one that is 20 pages long. Most of them simply tell you that the team has no obligation to follow it.

clarity about the perpetrators, including who will save the proceeds from the collection of investments, to whom the project must really be considered.

If project players are not known in the wider community, or they are new players who are anonymous, we can be sure the Whitepaper will be used as a fraud.

In the world of electronic money, you can not trust anyone or anything. Including white paper, constantly changing something. Very often many projects copy the white papers of one another and do not follow the plan described, which is contained there. This is not reliable.

So, now it's really often possible to see something like when different projects copy white paper to each other. This is very bad, because only crooks do it and just screw people down. You need to carefully check everything.

you should be aware that in a whitepaper probably never 100% everything is in it or that you can implement all the goals exactly as it was written in the whitepaper. I think so, what is in the whitepaper, but you should see it realistically and do not expect that everything will be implemented exactly the same way.

Not 100 percent but i tend to believe them to a certain extent as the whitepaper and the quality of the whitepaper can tell you a lot of things that you need to know about a particular project. They are important, you just don't have to read the entire thing. Also projects make promises in their whitepaper all the time that they never intend to keep.

White paper is a presentation document with promises. This is not a technical document, where we can see the calculations and implementation of the project. How can one believe in promises? I think there have been a lot of examples over the past year.

I do not believe in what is written in white paper because it is beautiful words for deceiving trusting investors. You need to check the team and look at the availability of the product.

Sometimes the whitepaper is written by people whose goal is to attract the attention of the investors just by a beautiful spelling, and the company may not even fulfill its promises.

When investing into a project WP is a must read for me, but it is only one of the elements I am analyzing. It helps for us to understand the essence  of the project but if there is no capable team to realize the written in the WP than it is worthless.

Of course not. People can write in whitepaper whatever they want. You need to analyze not only whitepaper but also the team and most importantly and their previous experience. It is not necessary to have experience with cryptocurrency but check if they have successful experience with multi million projects before.

White paper is more like an excuse to let the public take dust in your eyes and collect the fastest amount you need.

Of course no. WhitePaper it is the important part of ICOs Marketing and we should understand that only part of the information in WhitePaper is fully true. Sure if this ICO not a scam.

The truth is that most whitepapers promise the world and the associated projects follow this up with an unsubstantial product. There seems to be overuse of the now commonplace buzzwords such as Artificial Intelligence, Next Generation, Platform, Logistics etc, most whitepapers will include several of these buzzwords in an attempt to appeal to as many people as possible, knowing full well that their platform isn't Next Gen yet, nor will it offer any sort of A.I. Unless it's a technical whitepaper, treat everything contained within with extreme skepticism.

No, I do not. Whitepapers might give you an insight to a project, and maybe make you understand what it all about, and how certain things are meant to be achieved, but it is never a  guarantee for the success of the project, so I do not have my complete belief and trust in them.

If the content of the whitepaper it nice and pretty good then give an overview of its contents is reasonable. but when it does not have a clear concept of content and it will be quite doubtful. communication tools like a whitepaper or resource information between projects and investors. in the absence of that I think investors will also hesitate to invest.

If someone reads the team's project on the whitepaper, they can use that knowledge to understand the team's progress on the github. I'm sure if the project is real then they have to push their code regularly

Yes , undoubtedly when I heard about new projects , my first job is to read their Whitepaper . The whitepaper really tells us about the project. Whitepaper should be written by very professionals.

In my opinion, white books are very important to understand the quality and potential of the project, but this document cannot guarantee the success of the blockchain platform. Every project must have a good team with high-quality advisors. If these details characterize developers in a bad way, they are not included in the Whiteaper.

Of course not. Whitepaper is only a marketing document, which very often has no connection with reality. As a rule, it is a motivating document for investment funds. Sometimes projects steal each other this documents, slightly changing the main information. How can you trust that? But there are also good projects with the competent writing of whitepaper - XYO for example.

In the future, the proper operation of the project as described on the white paper may not occur. In fact, white paper tells us about the goal in the project and how the project will progress. We learn more about the ideas of the project team.

Yes, a good whitepaper does not mean that the project will raise enough money for ico from market investors. Almost all projects have an excellent and very informative whitepaper which is good for us investors but they cannot cope with this and are losing out. In general, the success of the ico project depends on the team and the more experienced it is in this field, the better is also the great responsibility burden of the seo project. We all want real projects to become more and hopefully so.

developer works on beginning inauguration as disputing orders to work on extensive as gathering strength on resource to collects with returns of nominals as presettled on numbers with initials as complying with terms of investment with the projects plan.

There are very rare projects who wrote real details in the whitepaper otherwise many projects are exaggerate the things of their projects. Personally I don't care much about whitepaper but when I start participating in bounty campaigns I used to care about whitepaper but now I only check the value of coin & total supply otherwise I don't believe much on whitepaper. Lack of implementation of the project vision & Exaggerating the things causes the failure of project.

The whitepaper is just a document to get all information about the company, team, and roadmap, how they start an develop their project but own research is always required before making an investment decision.

- I do not think it evaluates the quality and potential of the project because the information that the whitepaper can provide is just the basics and calculations in the future, all are just meaningless words and there is no evidence to prove the credibility of the project. In return, the whitepaper still demonstrates to us the efforts and benefits of the project, and if a project has enough information and plans for the future, the chances of success are still higher than others, but want to have the final decision, we need to consider many other factors, the whitepaper is not enough

Some scam ICOs are actually just copying other legitimate ICO's whitepaper. That is why I think it is a total waste of time to believe what is fully written on the white paper. You will only know if the team is really honest with what they promise to investors once they are really in action in developing the project.

There is no other source of informtion except the whitepaper and by reading on it we can determine whether the project is legit or not , but not a hundred 100 percent  assurance .

             We do not have to trust 100% in whitepaper. The whitepaper message should be very well sorted. In whitepaper, of course it is exaggerated. When choosing a project we invest in, it is advisable to read the whitepaper, but it's not the only aspect that we need to consider when choosing an investment project. A whitepaper should contain useful information to make the potential investor understand the concept of the project. Unfortunately this does not happen.

No, i don't believe 100% in projects whitepaper. The objectives can change with the time passing, and the whitepaper might become obsolete.
But it still give you an idea of what the final product should look like. That's why you should follow the project you have invest in. To know what is happening and where it is going.

Unfortunately, in today's realities, even a well-designed and thoughtful Whitepaper can mean nothing, since scammers can hire professionals and prepare an excellent performance. So the first thing is to check the development team, and then move on to the study of whitepaper.

Why i should not believe? Whitepaper is made to give more information about project. They dont promise anything

Just like other people said, they consider the white paper as one of the best requirement by seeing the legitimacy of a project. However, sometimes those things that they write in whitepaper are not true. Whitepaper might become obsolete and the objective can change as the time passing by.

So far as I know and use, Whitepaper is only one of the elements that I must analyze and consider when choosing the projects. It is not only about the presentation, information, and also all about the project in the Whitepaper clearly. But it must be also the important things about the team, website, token sold, and other components including the telegram community.

Action speaks lounder than words. This is the same case with Whitepaper. Some whitepaper are self explanatory, limited number of pages while others are lengthy, difficult to understand. I think this is the case we all face out there, I enjoying reading whitepaper with limited number of pages let's say 30 or less. Anything more than that is quite stressful to read and I think this is Crypto for crying out loud and most project should probably keep their white paper simple. The truth is either whitepaper or not, a reliable project will always deliver. Yes I believe in whitepaper because it give a detailed description of what the project is all about, the problem the project is trying to solve in the Crypto Space and the potential solutions.

A friend is a business nothing more. There is a beautiful paper and product, but advertising is a weak investment and you’re not getting it. And others tear off the next exchanger and collect hard cap on the copied paper.

NO, not really because not all ICO's with whitepaper are not scam. Some people are so good of deceiving people through white paper because white paper is one of the factors to look for before investing because it's the white paper that will tell you the 5 W's of the project.

I always read the whitepaper before making an investment decision as that document gives us lot of information about the project and their timeframe to implement the project but I also read reviews and do my own research also.

because not all idea can be created you must think before investing like me ,
i'm only join on project having make sense idea and for this all working for me

I don't think that whitepaper has the whole information about a project. Sometimes, the team of the project revises the whitepaper. Why? Because the previous one doesn't have the full information.
About the fail's project? I think It depends on the quality of the project itself and the team.

that's true and this is really sad that team don't understand how important WP and they really can change it when they want. Of course after that they will change their strategy, their plans, their road map.. and you know what came after that. Wp is a most important in any ICO but most of the ICO's forget about that.

Whitepaper is the outline of the developer when planning his project. It may succeed or fail and Whitepaper may change during development!

In order to analyze the project well, the technical document is of great importance in this analysis . No 100% guarantee of course does not give it, but there is spelled out further actions for the implementation of the product , and it is very important for us to choose this project

I think a lot of projects have only good marketing but they don't give their attention to technology and whitepaper. They want to take money and escape. But there are many good projects with a good idea but they have a really hard white paper for understanding. The main thing I see that people who participate in ICO have to learn more information about projects and blockchain in general.

it is not the first time that I have ascertained that regarding the study of the white sheet will bring you some results. As if all projects are promising and honest, but always scammers find a way to remember an investor.

The white paper itself is a "concept manual". It's just a concept, so I don't trust the white paper 100%. You need to be able to analyze what is possible.

leaving aside the scam projects, we have to think that blockchain technology is very complex and the technical preparation of the developers is very often improvised and not very coherent

White paper is the most important and basic document of the ICO project. It does not give a 100% guarantee that the project will really benefit. But thanks to this document it will be known who is behind the project and who works with it. And this is a huge plus

I would like to read their whitepaper before investing in the project, but I am not 100% believe writing in the whitepaper, it the guideline about this project using in the Blockchain, roadmap, team, distribution and more, but not a promise, maybe nothing happened in the future, but I will consider all about this before investing it

Not at all 100% but still Whitepaper plays very important role in every project and it is really essential to look up the full Road-map and Whitepaper before investing in any project. One thing always clear in mind, whitepaper only help to gain knowledge related to project only, there is no mean, if the whitepaper is impressive than project will definitely successful.

Of course not. Nothing can give an exact guarantee that you will be able to earn on this or that project. But there is a possibility that you will get at least some guarantee of large earnings. For me, white paper is the most important part of any project

at least the existence of the whitepaper is part to solidify the choice in selecting projects. However, because of the need to remain vigilant whitepaper will also give you a pretty good picture of whether this will be a project that produced or not. scam sometimes can also be indicated from this.  the whitepaper is important enough to be studied for projects that want to be worked on.

Though some if not most of the projects and whitepapers may be just for pure cash grab, there are some real projects with real whitepapers written by qualified team.

Whitepaper is still a marketing tool, I`m afraid. Do you believe everything they tell you in a regular advertisement?
Even is the goals stated in the WP have very little change of successful implementation, devs often state them as sure thing and not a big deal to realize to attract more investors.
Good if they revise their WP after it`s obvious for everybody that certain goals should be corrected.

I see some causes of failure, Because wrong marketing strategy. Not sincerely explanation, Also on their telegram group admins was not active always. So investor may confused. But not all, Like the other iCO's succeeded to their projects. More ICO's was a good explanation on the whitepaper but some of these not legitimate. They making a good whitepaper for a bad intention to take advantage.

whitepaper is a very important thing and is the most important benchmark in analyzing an ICO. but actually I am not 100% confident in WP, they just equate a condition, and are regarded as sweeteners for ICO fraudsters

For me, white paper is just one kind of document for reference. Trust it 100%, never. The technology, how it works, ... in white paper, no matter how great, is just the theory.

Bitcoin has a white paper, and this is the only project that still corresponds to the original ideas that were set out there.

I know that some projects say that white paper is created exclusively for the ICO stage, and then they do not even pay attention to it.

It will be disastrous for any investors to believe all the contents in any project's Whitepaper. Even a solid project might not fulfilled 50% of their Whitepaper contents talk less of weak projects that have damaged the reputation of the industry.

At the bottom of any project whitepaper you can also find the Legal Disclaimer and Forward-Looking Statements. They all said that none of these promises can come true, so always weigh risks before joining their ICO.

I see whitepaper as a dictionary to see all the information about a project, but I don't 100% trust the proposal contained in there

Yes, White paper  is very important  and gives maximum information about the project.But I have very tight schedule . So I read it not regularly but I check progress about of the project daily.

whitepaper could be copy and paste in that case what do you expect from team who copied whitepaper of another project, it will fail of course good whitepaper guarantee no success.