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Is it important to research the whitepaper in the project? then is there a right way to find out if their whitepapper is real, not fake? What do you think?

The whitepaper is often regarded as the face of the project. That’s where you, at least theoretically, find out what the project is all about, what they want to do, how they want to do it, and, most importantly, when. A decent whitepaper takes serious effort: thorough market research, design work, calculations, conceptual development, and lots of other things are integral parts of a good paper. As a result, writing a good whitepaper usually requires a lot of time (and sometimes money), which scammers cannot afford. 

but you need to remember,Good projects are quite thorough about their whitepapers in a good way. If you have too many questions after reading a whitepaper, it definitely means that it was a bad one, and the project did not make an effort to be clear enough. It doesn’t matter if it was intentional or just a result of little attention paid to making the whitepaper, it’s still a bad sign.

the point is this, if you see that a project’s whitepaper is sloppy, too generalized, or lacks any realistic roadmap, that should make you cautious. At very best, the project might not be a scam but they’re still not taking their work seriously enough. Nevertheless, usually, scammers either hire foreign students who don’t speak good enough English to write their whitepapers, which results in a cornucopia of hilariously silly errors or they just plagiarize someone else’s work, which is even cheaper (but certainly more obvious).   
correction if I'm wrong

The importance of whitepaper in a project development cannot be underestimated because it serves as the piece which provide all the necessary information about the project, its idea, the team behind and the product of the project. Most importantly, it tells investors and readers the road map of the project.

Yap, definitely important. Because much useful information about the project will be shown on the whitepaper.You can see what the product that want they make, detail information about their token, roadmap, about the team behind this project, and then vision&mission about the project. The true investor will read whitepaper first before they decide to invest.

You can use this tool to checking is plagiarism whitepaper or no

https://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/

One of the most useless questions you could ever ask. If the whitepaper is NOT important to you in any case, like some pure token experts like to say, then you might as well just create tokens without WPs and then distribute according to your token economics.

If you really believe in crypto and blockchain, past hype of price, WP is non negotiable.

whitepaper is of utmost importance otherwise how would you know what issue the project owner is trying to fix.

Though many projects nowadays just are copying some good whitepaper and presenting it as their own just to scam peoples.

It's important it's the complete plan on where the project is going and what is the concept of the project, all legit projects have their own whitepaper, this is the full explanation, you can trace if the whitepaper if it is a duplicate whitepaper there are a lot of plagiarism checker, you can check if this is a copy-paste whitepaper and it's one of the signs that that project is dubious.

It is most important to view whitepaper, one paper and website of any crypto project before investing or doing its bounty campaign. Viewing whitepaper will help you from being scammed and it will also help you understand the project you are participating in is good enough. I do research and view whitepaper of a project beforehand.

To identify a fake whitepaper is fairly easy. because projects don't have a real and passionate idea. Their whitepaper is usually very short and the ideas seem empty and without depth.
Besides, their roadmap will not be detailed and often discount token with a very large percentage.

a project's whitepaper is only supposed to introduce the "idea" behind the project in a very short and moderately easy to understand manner. for example bitcoin's whitepaper is explaining what transaction structure is, a simple explanation of PoW, time stamping and the network.
you can not decide whether bitcoin is a good project or not just based on its paper. you have to actually check the project to see if that "idea" was implemented correctly or not. for example there are some altcoins that had good ideas but failed horribly in implementation step so their whole project is now considered a failure.

Irrespective of how whitepaper has been so manipulative we still have to read through. The more whitepaper one read the more you could see defects in projects, comparing the prospect and outcome of projects. One now need to understand how to research and verify every detail seen in the WP, teams are the first and most important part to verify. If we are sure of the teams capability and credibility then we can go further with the project idea

Everybody that answered above are correct, WP must be written thoroughly because it's one of the most favorite parts that investors are to study.

And btw a lot of scam projects turned out to be scams because of copied and plagiarized Whitepaper!

So it could be also used as one of the scam-detectors.

Yes Whitepaper is one of the important part of any project because all of the details about the said project was written on that Whitepaper the ideas, planning and execution in any means. But sometimes whitepaper was just easily copied from the other existing projects which is not good. Lets say that if we notice that the whitepaper was just copied from somewhere else will thats the "Sign of fraud" and should stay away that crap! I think the only way to find out wethere the whitepaper is original or just copied is by compare it to other existing platforms today mostly they just copied it from the famous one.

If you mean real as it was 100% plagiarism free and with legit team, then there are several ways. Someone already recommended a tool to check plagiarism, you can also check the scam accusation board and see the busted "fake" whitepapers.

Here are some samples:
FLUENT TOKEN - SCAM - Plagiarized whitepaper - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181757.0
SEEDOFLOVETOKEN(foundico4.9 score ) - Plagiarism whitepaper - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181683.0
BOTHAM.IO - SCAM - FAKE TEAM - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181751.0
SEEDOFLOVETOKEN(foundico4.9 score ) - Plagiarism whitepaper - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5181683.0

Of course this is the most important part of a project that will be carried out right because by reading the white paper we know what the project's purpose is, if we distinguish between the original or fake white paper, we will judge it.

If we want to know more about project we need more into their whitepaper. In the whitepaper we all know what project they will development and running for. More research will more good because at this time so many project only copy paste from another project. More detailed is needed.

thank you friend, for reminding me. I am a beginner and I want to know how to observe whitepapers in a project. yes, maybe this question is not useful for you but who knows tomorrow when I have the skills in identifying fraudulent projects will surely help many people not to fall into the den of fraudsters. There is a saying that says "ashamed to ask astray on the road", hopefully you can remember again when you were in my position.

Whitepapers are an important part of the project because the first thing investors will see is whitepapers. if they publish a project with a bad whitepaper of course investors are reluctant to invest with them. more or less like that in this case.

White paper of the projects it's like an idea, ideas might be very good and well work out, but it's there is still a lot to go before their implementation and commercial success of the project

If you are a investor then Whitepapper is most important for you because withpaper road map of the project and you will see the project what can do future development. Many strong project looking good map then there making Whitepapper after start project activity and many projects making in running project.

I think whitepaper doesn't a Idea of project. Because already they plan to create a complete project then only they create a clear whitepaper of the project. So we plan commercially and properly then only it make big success and Investors are ready to participate the project. Finally we follow the white paper way otherwise it will never success in current crowd.

I think whitepaper is important because what investor see, although i think less people who want to read whitepaper, it is still important. Maybe out there, a few people who want to read it look information about roadmap, or maybe spesification about the token itself. If me i usually look whitepaper only to see what is the project and useful or not the token in future. If i think not logic to realized, i just leave it.

if we want to know about the project, just read their whitepaper carefully my friend
and to know if the whitepaper is real or fake, you should read it and comparing with the whitepaper from the other project my friend
so, its not easy  ;)

Yes, whitepaper is very important for analyzing a project. I think it's even the most important. You can learn a lot about the project by reading Whitepaper. And in this case, you get enough information to evaluate the project.

I'm writing a white paper right now.  If you need a white paper written please contact me.  I can produce a very comprehensive document for almost any kind of blockchain related project.

well, in my opinion whitepaper and team member is very important for any project mate
because investors always want to read a whitepaper from the project first before drop their money

The whitepaper is critical for investor, it state the vision statement, objectives and the problem the developer are out to solve, ensure you research well,to confirm if the whitepaper is fake or real, consider the team/developer involve in the project, the present and past experience relative to the project whitepaper.

The whitepaper is an overview of the whole project, from concept, team, disclaimer, but we find many whitepapers that are almost identical in various existing projects, this is influenced by several factors;
1. because the project in cryptocurrency has the same concept, for example about security, methods and so on.
2. Whitepapers usually use the same image, this is because a cryptocurrency has links to one another.

to find out the authenticity, I think it needs a thorough identification, such as reading their disclaimers and abstracts, because there we will find differences, if the abstracts are the same, then the possibility of copypaste is very large.

You don't need a whitepaper to find out if the project is real because whitepaper can easily be written.
Look at the team who compose the project, if they are real and has a good reputation, then that's the time you conclude that the whitepaper is real because they will also protect their reputation, they are not raising a project to scam investors.

Actually, crypto is a big market, that's why there's a lot of scams in the past is because some investors failed to verify the authenticity of the information given in a certain project and there are online freelancers who are good at writing white paper, it doesn't need a big amount for them to work on it, so it's not a good basis at all.

Whitepaper can be made as good as possible by the developer team without considering the inhibiting factors. For novice investors, maybe whitepaper can be a reference for a project before deciding to invest, but in its development that determines a project is the developer team and many projects that change the whitepaper and roadmap after running several months.

white paper for a project is very important, so it is necessary to research before we join a project, and to find out whether the white paper is authentic or fake, we also have to look at some other white paper projects, that's where we can find the similarities in white paper or the original white paper.

I consider it important to have white paper for each project. The fact is that most often all the detailed information about the project and its work is located in white paper, and if it is not there, it is very difficult to evaluate the project and decide to participate in it. I always check for white paper and the information in it. As for the methods for determining the shade of information in white paper, I have not heard of them and don’t know, but I think that all the information needs to be checked, and then a conclusion should be drawn.

What matters is results in my opinion. With our project (www.nyancash.com) our results show up on the blockchain when token holders start getting ethereum rewards

Of course, a technical document is important for any project, because this document is the first thing an investor sees first when he gets acquainted with a project. But you need to understand that project teams reserve the right to change this document at any time. I saw many projects that made changes at the tokensale stage, changed many parameters, the total supply of the coin, the blockchain on which the coin will be initially created, and much more.

Yes, I think the only way to get rid of these scammers is to take care of all aspects of the project. Panel, Road Map, White Paper. These factors if we evaluate them appropriately,  It will help us close all the ports that fraudsters exploit.

Whitepapers describe some or all of the project and I think reading or knowing whitepapers is important as an investment guide. Maybe there are some projects with good whitepaper but the reality in the market is not as good as whitepaper and in my opinion this can be categorized as shitcoin

Yes, but sometimes many whitepaper simply misses most of the information or doesn’t disclose it. Everything seems to be blurry and written in general terms. Here, as they say, people are judged by their clothes so I judge the project on whitepaper.

Studying the whitepaper of a project would reveal many things about the project and their credibility.
Firstly, you'll know about the effort put on, a scam would have a poorly developed whitepaper with many grammatical errors and plagiarism. Searching some random phrases and viewing the IDs of the team may reveal if they are plagiarised.
Secondly, you'll have a good idea about tokenomics and how the project aims to deliver and know about the roadmap.

Whitepaper is the place for finding out all the information on a particular project. However, with the change of the crypto industry being using as scamming people, most people don't do any homeworks, just copy paste other people's work. You can check it out through checking plagiarism.

Whitepaper is like the water in the whole world you cannot live without it, every project must have whitepaper to show their plan for me it is the most important thing of each project, try to look at those previous project that failed most of them has crappy and effortless whitepaper.

whitepaper is one of the important points in a bounty project, Sometimes reading/understanding of the intent and purpose of a project feels boring, but this is an important part of choosing a project. Although it consists of a qualified team, if the purposes and objectives of forming the project are unclear it will reduce the interest of investors. Conversely, if a team that joins a project looks less attractive if the purposes and objectives are clear, It might make investors interested in the project.
So in my opinion, researching whitepapers in a project is very important, So that we don't promote projects that don't have a clear purpose and purpose.

Well whitepaper is the most important asset in the project as there you can find all the details you need about it, from team to roadmap and mvp , bounties and so on. If you step by a project without a roadmap or they promise to deliver the roadmap just run from it.

White Paper provides all the necessary information about the project, but of course it will be very important. From it we learn the purpose of the project, also based on this document, investors make their decision.

Yes, whitepaper is important in the project because the projects developments and purpose are written here. Whitepaper are the one should you look before you invest. I recommend you ask experts first to read whitepaper if you are a newbie before you join or invest.

Of course it is important to a project. This question is silly. How can one impart the vision of a project without sharing it? And also no one will just take your word for it that the project is going to be awesome. So, having a plan is indispensable.

Well, the whitepaper really gives us a certain perspective on the project, understanding the ideas and plans the project is trying to achieve, in addition, we can know whether this project is serious or not through consideration of plagiarism. So the whitepaper has an important level but of course, we still can't completely rely on it to determine the potential of the project, a lot of other factors can promote the project even if it's a plagiarism project and don't have a good whitepaper, advertising and marketing are things to consider

The whitepaper is a detailed information about the concept of the project, what they've done, what they're about to do and what they're doing. It gives the investing public a chance to understand the intricacies of the project before making a decision to invest or not.

Whitepaper is the first thing you need to check if you are interested in the token. It provides the first glimpse of the project. A dedicated team would build a solid whitepaper with proper discussion about how the project an its token would work. They would provide the reasons why they'll succeed. A fixed percentage profit could seem appealing but they are outright scam.

For sure - White Paper is proof of existing company. But we should check it originally or not. Some "Companies" stealing some sentenses or even all text from another companies.

The whitepaper is important its part of any token project, and you can check if it is a copy-paste by using a plagiarism checker, so many projects now are caught using a fake whitepaper and they are tagged as a scam project, a legit project will not use a copy-paste or fake whitepaper a fake whitepaper is a fake project.

Whitepaper is an important part of this project, but you must remember that in the past year many scamers have abused whitepapers as a way to fool people. I mean scamers misuse other project whitepapers for their own benefit, they copy the old project white paper or recycle it to make it look real. You must pay attention to that.

Whitepaper is very important for every projects,it consist of 100percent details of a particular project and of cos their upcoming updates and plans but at the same time you have to be cautious and not depend on whitepaper for investing in projects,these so called whitepapers are not been taken serious like in the past anymore,scammers are stealing and copying from other projects white paper,be careful

So if we dont read we may never know it was copied

In 2017 whitepaper is the first thing every researchers would go for before any other things but its not the same after the last bullrun of 2017/2018,many scammers have come to realized that investors care more about whitepaper to they start forging and copying whitepapers of other available projects till date, i am not saying whitepaper is not important again but on my watch it should be the last thing you do research on,the first thing when doing research is the project team followed by the concepts of the project itself

Yes ofcourse, the whitepaper is the most important thing in the project because if you don't have that, it's impossible for the project to succeed. Investors really need the whitepaper because they wanted to know what this project really is, the platform, roadmaps and etc.
And about knowing a whitepaper if it is real or not? Don't worry, if you find a project here in Bitcointalk you will detect it by looking in trust rating at their profile, that is one of advantages of Bitcointalk, many concerned citizens here.

Every project should have a structure and strategy in place for the achievement of their goals. The whitepaper is the avenue where those structures and strategies are written down for the perusal of the public. Investors prefer to review the whitepaper before making decisions.

every project has a white paper and white paper is a blackboard in the project. when you look at the whitepaper of a project, there will be listed some initial stage structures until the final stage of the project plan. but you need to know that not all projects can run well as written in the whitepaper, only projects that have a valid team and experienced developers who can run the project well.

The whitepaper is indeed very important, because it shows us the quality of the project and the experience of its team. The promising projects which have the potential to succeed, have usually good whitepapers with many details about the roadmap and the token, and the ecosystem.

It is very important, because it is the guide of what is going to be done, in fact you can follow up according to the Whitepaper, if you have complied or not with what they have written there, it is a way to realize if the project is on track , whether it is legitimate or not.

Normally in the Whitepaper, they describe in detail all the technical aspects, but it should be taken into account that it is considered completely authentic when it is completely fulfilled after having made the respective collection of money, and those funds are used to develop and carry out what they promised to create.

Already today it is much more important, because projects are already underway, such as Telegram, and very soon that the Facebook Pound will be launched that will attract the attention of everyone in general whose Whitepaper will be analyzed by all the most experienced critics.

Whitepaper is the basis of the project. Even without the qualifications and skills in investing you can determine the quality of the project, its ideas and its implementation by it. Template and general phrases without specifics are a signal of dishonesty of the team and the scam  project. Although sometimes even an ideal whitepaper  doesn't guarantee you from mistakes. A scam's team at any time cans change the idea and direction of the project and, under this pretext, disappears with the money of investors, promising to return with a new development and whitepaper.

Serious investors look at the whitepaper of any coin that they want to invest because everything is on whitepaper and developers should make sure that everything that serious investors want to know are all here, this is where investors will see if the concept is unique and not just a copy of an old project or just a recycle of failed projects in the past.

The best way to check if the whitepaper is unique and not just a copy-paste is to download it, the majority of the whitepaper is on PDF, Google for the best plagiarism checker and upload it there, if it is copy-paste it will show up.

On a white paper it is very difficult to understand whether the project is fraudulent or not. There is only one way - to check white paper for plagiarism, and if you find similarities with the white papers of other projects, you can say with 99% certainty that you have a white paper of a fraudulent project.

It depends on which side it is considered, if for the purpose of long-term investments, then yes, but if in order to just make money on IEO then only the metrics of the project token and the popularity of the exchange on which it passes are important.

The whitepaper is a vital part of any project as it lists everything the project is about and how they plan on achieving it. You can tell a scam project if the whitepaper is plagiarized. But it may not be enough because some projects that are planning to scam will make it look real by adding originality to their whitepaper content.

if the project does not have white paper, then what are they doing in this market? so I think the whitepaper is very important because with the whitepaper we / investors will know about what programs they are developing. investors will not put their money if the project does not have a whitepaper.

The whitepaper is the most important thing in the project.
If the whitepaper is good you will not need to ask a lot of questions, as you can make the decision to invest by reading the whitepaper.

Yes it is very important in any project just as stated in bitcoin whitepaper too which has always been the guide for every step for the generation of bitcoin and how it suppose to be done and today every project has their whitepaper too but the most painful part is that most are not following stated rules and guide again which has render the whitepaper useless.

I support the following points. Yeah, it's good toread the white paper of a project before even trying to venture into such projects.

as developer works on preparing use with details on arrange on terms as complying tasks with parts on extensive as the development of service the returns to helps on reference on investors to gains with supports of use on unit to put as identifying details on qualification.

In most cases you are investing into idea what is written in the whitepaper. If the project do not have even whitepaper, then in what you are investing? Into air? You have to realize that probably they don´t have enough skill to make a plan of the product let alone the whole working product.

Whitepaper is if utmost importance to he success, originality and authenticity of a project. A whitepaper that is copied or plagiarised is an offence and such is highly frowned at.
Most projects that have been found to have plagiarised whitepapers have failed. They either failed doing fund raising or after listing on exchange. This is to invariably say that they are scam
However, to prove that they are scam, you can easily run plagiarism test, by using a sophisticated plagiarism checker or if you are acquainted in reading white papers, immediately you stumbled at a whitepaper containing similar contents with what you have see in the past, your instinct might inform you, which may trigger you to investigate further.

yes of course the whitepaper is very important, when investors want to invest with the project the thing they will see first is the whitepaper or project concept. because in the whitepaper written details about the project they want to launch so I think the whitepaper is very important.

Having a whitepaper is very important, a professional can quickly have an overview of the project and see for red flags like plaglarism, unpractical proposals and other forms of exergaration without whitepapers, one would just be gambling with the project. Although, these days projects tend not to fulfil their whitepapers but that doesn't invalidate the importance of having a whitepaper.

Whitepaper contains wide information about the project implementation, which contains the projects development and plans. It is the background of the project and a great read for big investors to know its purpose and if they wanted to put their money on it.

It's important to check the project whitepaper because it explains future project planning. You can also judge whitepaper writing because some projects have bad writing, duplicate articles or other whitepapers.

The document is important. They should be well designed and have technical information. And explain in detail how the project will use a coin. Without quality documents, the project should not be considered.

Sure. White paper is one of the most important features to determine the progress, key ideas and the implementation of the project. Aside that, it also outlines the brilliant members behind the project and what to do in the next couple of years.

If interpreted literally Whitepaper is a legal document / bookkeeping which contains a complete explanation of the data of a project to be implemented. The whitepaper is very important before you invest your money in a project because from the whitepaper you can find out the background information of the project, objectives, and overall details about the startup of the project. because of that i suggest you to carefully read and study the whitepaper of a project before deciding to invest

Whitepaper has become a necessity for new projects to know their projects in more detail. But whitepaper also cannot guarantee the project will be good and real.

yes whitepaper is a copy of the document in the form of project development structure, and anyone who wants to invest in a project will conduct research in advance about the development of projects that are already in the whitepaper and that is the importance of reading so as not to be wrong in making decisions when investing in a project.

Personally, I believe that any project should have all the technical documentation. Since this is the basis of all the activities of the entire project. And each user should know what the project is doing and what the business strategy is based on. And if there is no information about the project, then this is simply not a project, but an ordinary fake. And I advise everyone to always study the project documentation.

Whitepaper is very important and of much significance to a crypto project as it gives an in dept analysis, concept, roadmap, team and summary of the project. It helps investors to ascertain whether the project with its roadmap is a ready for a short term investment or long term investment plan and make vivid conclusions. For a fact, whitepaper is of much importance to a project.

Yes brother, whitepaper is the representate that describe all from the project to know how purpose about the project, how the roadmap has been arranged, and who is the team behind that project. You can decide to invest some project from here.

Yes, because if there is no whitepaper, maybe the project can be considered unclear even scam project, but in some cases whitepaper is not a guarantee that the project will be successful because many projects that have whitepaper are scams and unclear projects.

White paper is very important in any project.  It is an official document informing the reader about the project. Is just like when you buy your electronic and it comes with users guide (manual)  it shows in detail how the project will operate. A good white paper should have aim and objectives including roadmap. Thou now a days irrespective of the white paper some projects do deviate completely from the white paper.

Investors certainly have to have a broad view of the project, and the whitepaper contains all things related to the project, if I want to invest then the first thing is to read the whitepaper thoroughly, if convincing, then invest and if there isn't then immediately leave.

The whitepaper is one of the most important requirements before launching a project as it is based on the idea of the team thereby telling investors what they are to expect; if the team ends up going against what is the whitepaper rather than improving it then shows something is wrong and in such cases the investors are likely to abandon the project. It's funny how most projects copy others while forgetting whitepaper is meant to be unique, as it serves as a guide.

It is veryimportant to research the whitepaper of a bounty project because the whitepaper entails everything you will ever need to make conclusions as to whether to promote the project or invest into it. Most whitepapers are also not real but fake but it takes time to research and fish them out. Considering a whitepaper, it is very important in any project.

With how things turned out in the crypto scene, whitepaper is only a big bonus for a certain project. Because many have turned out to be a scam even if they have excellent, well-written whitepaper, it is not the determining factor anymore whether a project will be successful or not. But you can see if the team has put effort in writing their own wp based on the content and the organization of the information.

Whitepaper just like a proposal, thats was really important for the business purpose about a funding/project. But for cryptocurrency user i think 90% don't care about the whitepaper they only care about "When Exchange", "Pump", "Got a good return from ICO/IEO" & Anything who related about the profit for their own purpose. You can see the reality on their group project.

white paper is needed, because with white paper investors can see what the project looks like, because it's impossible for CEO or marketing to explain every day to different people, and white paper is very helpful,
but unfortunately most white papers are still concepts, and it's better to look for projects that have white papers but also have real products.

White Paper is very important in developing a project, to save a document describing a particular project the problem to be resolved in the future, meaning the solution to the problem of the project, to explain in detail the project, its making, and interactions and users.

In white paper documents also have certain values.
For example:

1. Introduction to Disclaimer
2. Product description
3. Market description
4. How ICO project funds are collected.
5. And more, it is not possible to mention one by one here.

So, the essence of the conclusion above is that the White Paper, it is very important that it does not have to be in the project, even in the government department it is really needed.

Yes it is important. Sometimes you can find red flags of the project in their whitepaper.
There are many scam projects copy pasted the whitepaper from other cryptocurrency project.
So you can identify whether the project is real or not using whitepaper.

Yes its absolutely ok for one to research about the whitepaper amd find out the loope holes, some projects directly copy other projects whitepaper and hence its a clear indication of red flag... Also grammar and other activities explains that the team is likey not to be well composed of the right elemensts of individuals

Whitepaper is consist of  plans from the team who created the project, if everything that written inside is clearly explain and can possibly achieve, there's still some  investors who read and base it's decision after reading important information regarding to the plans of the developers, though from what we
are witnessing, there's also  people who are no longer interested and only based their position according to the market trends.

Yes it's important because inside a whitepaper contains every information you need about a project. The vision and mission, the how to attain such is always mapped out in the whitepaper. The quality of a whitepaper speaks well of a project and otherwise.

the project development structure is written on the whitepaper, if you question whether or not it is important? of course whitepaper is very important. just imagine if the project was launched without having a whitepaper of course investors would not bet on the project.

Yes, the whitepaper is very important in any project, this is because it is the first tool through which the team communicate or shows their ideas to the community or investors as well as outlining how to achieve it and the anticipated time frame (road map). Also, whitepaper is meant to be unique, concise, self-explanatory and easily accessible, because a good whitepaper shows how ready the team is towards developing their projects.

It is good to have a whitepaper but personally I think, having no whitepaper because of some reason is plausible too. If the team is aiming for flexible and efficient development, having no whitepaper is a great help for them. Because they can not be too focused on the deadline/roadmap and can adjust the development based on the crypto latest situation.

Whitepaper is so important to a project in diverse ways whiles at the same time the success of a project is quite dependent on its whitepaper. It helps describes the project in whole and summarizes where necessary helping traders and investors to make decisions. Whitepaper is very important to a project.

Like every business plan, the whitepaper of the project should be carefully analyzed before releasing the final version. The no real problem solving projects can pass this stage if they only have the intention to raise as much as they can do with the token sale. The burned coin calculations even should be marked in the whitepaper in order to avoid any possible confusion by the main investors.

Without the existence of the whitepaper, I doubt team will be able to convince the investors for investing in the project. The effective methods of convincing investors are to show them the vision of the project, the roadmap which team believes in and the last one is to keep the promises. Broken promises mean the broken loyalty by the investors and this number tends to go up if the team keep to broke the roadmap deadlines.

White paper gives all the various details about project and their phases. It gives investors a review about their idea and how they are gonna achieve the target with timeplan. It should be ready properly before making any investment.


I don't think thats a valid question. Just download it from the original project site. Haven't heard of whitepaper being real or fake.

If we don't research the whitepaper, how will we know what the project is all about, or if it's fake? The whitepaper is as important as ever can be imagined as it forms the foundation on which a project is built although it can still be updated as time goes on. Also, it is through the whitepaper that we have a glimpse or mindset of investing or not; anyone who invests in a project without reading the whitepaper is doing so based on hype which in most cases ends up disappointing them.

i think it is important. Because with the withepaper will make people know alot more detail what is the project about, what the different this project with the another, what plan they have, and who's the team. and i think the right way to know how the whitepaper is real or fake is just read they whitepaper with some familiar project like they do.

You should do your own research, and check all project details, so you can know if one project is copying the whitepaper from another. When in doubt you can search on forums such as bitcointalk for example.

Yes, white paper tells you what the project is and what idea it wants to implement. This document should be studied when choosing a project, but do not blindly believe everything that is written there. The most important thing is actions. Look at what the team has already done to make their project successful and this will show you their true intention.

Of course white paper is very important for a project. All things that explain the vision and mission, solutions, business models, products, roadmaps, are all explained in detail in the white paper. The aim is to provide the right media to give investors comfort in getting to know the project. Unfortunately, many scammers are starting to use this to deceive investors. The methods that you can use to find out if the white paper is fake or plagiarism are:
1. Please check using the plagiarism checker that is widely available on the internet, there are many that provide it for free.
2. visit Scam Accusations (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0) to ensure that the project you will support is not reported there

First it is very important to research the whitepaper in any project so that you will be educated on what the project is all about. In fact, it is the first thing we should ask of the project team thus knowing their level of knowledge and experience. Secondly, I don't think there is anyway to know if a whitepaper is fake unless you have gone through it and find it having somethings in common with another project; in this case you can query the team or make more research to know how legit they are.

There were known projects before even up to now that just copied their whitepapers and that made them lose their reputation. It's like the brain of the project on most of the details on what they are aiming too is on their whitepaper.
Catching if they just copied it is a hard task, you need to dedicate more of your time just figuring that it's a copied one. And you should be reading most of the projects whitepaper to determine one copied WP.

Reading a project's whitepaper extensively and with understanding is very important. If you cannot do that by yourself, you can ask for the assistance of experts to help detect if it is real or not and that if what the team ius presenting is unrealistic.
A lot of time, some projects have presented plagiarised whitepapers, which means they have nothing to offer.

Yes, may the team not professional to write whitepaper, but there are a lot of way to make whitepaper look profitional, they can use outsource, freelancer help to write whitepaper in professional way.

For sure, it is. White Paper is the most important document that investors can rely on when deciding in favor of a project. However, you should always remember, even a perfectly written White Paper is not a 100% guarantee of the reliability of a project and its success, but a poorly written White Paper will clearly indicate the launch of a product that is really doomed to failure.

I guess your question is how to find out if a whitepaper is plagiarized? There is no easy way to know this. I usually convert PDF whitepaper into text then search the whitepaper texts page by page on Google or other search engines.
There are couple of tools you can download online to convert PDF file into texts.

Very useful for researching whitepapers.

White paper is like a guide on what will be the future of a project or ICO. It explains all the story of what they want to do, why you should go for their plans. without  the whitepaper everything will be disorganized and no possible plans

Whitepaper is a great instrument to achieve success and it tells you about the product. A good project should have an outstanding whitepaper, but without smart team members, financing and community, it is just a piece of paper.

White paper is almost one of the most important part of a project.
This is where you can find the reasons for the project. I mean the main purpose of the project.
The project plan
The project instrument. What tge project will use the achieve thier goals. And much more about the project.
So, whitepaper is very important

In my view, the whitepaper is one of the most interesting factors to distingue legal and promising projects. If the whitepaper is very professional and it explains everything about the project, its roadmap, and its product, then that's a good sign showing us that the team behind the project is very experienced.

White paper is very important to know about the project in depth. It gives the overview of concept along with technical aspects. The information mentioned in whitepaper is nowhere mentioned.
However, one pager can also give the idea about project in simple and short manner.
We have to be careful with whitepaper information as so many scams are happening in crypto society. There are many plaglarism tools available on web to check if the content is copied from other project or not.

We cannot judge a project by its whitepaper alone. A whitepaper is indeed important to know the overall details of the project. As what most called it, it is indeed the "roadmap" of a project. Some whitepapers are excellently written, researched, explained, and presented but on the implementation stage, still failed. And there is also some project's whitepaper that is the opposite--or maybe just created on an average level but still able to present or explain everything about their project well--and yet proven to be legit or successful.

In my opinion its very important to have a good white paper. And you can understand a project its good or not with its white paper. A good project always have a good organized, informative and non copy content in its white paper. They explains everything in the white paper. Without a white paper its hard to understand a project in its core. Most of the time in bad projects there are copy material in the white paper. They skip did ep information about the project. So its always good if a project has a white paper which explain everything.

How many people can really read whitepaper? There are thousands of cryptocurrencies on the market, and I'm sure if they were thoroughly scrutinized, we'd know that many of them didn't have a real whitepaper. Dozens of copies of each other whitepaper ...

Way to identify counterfeit or copied whitepeper is.It is important or not to analyze this document, you decide. If you are going to invest in a project then you definitely need to look at the details.

Sure, White Paper is important part and also important to discover team and product which they offer. White Paper is a soul of project and if WP is clearly explain how project decide some existing problem - this project has a lot chance to be succsesfull.

The whitepaper is the starting point of any serious project, and it is unthinkable to start promoting a currency unless you are able to understand what lies behind it. It is obvious that you can also lie about a project, but with a little practice you can easily identify scams and losing projects.

you're right. I often see that scammers themselves do not understand what they write in their white paper. they just don’t understand anything in technical terms and add them just for the beautiful reading

Most of the time it determine how credible the project is Well written papers are indication of good team work and personally I think that makes sense for investors to check out the likely success of the project

You need to know the idea behind a project, so when you read the whitepaper, you may not yet be able to get the full details about the project, except it is written in a very simple. concise and clear manner. The whitepaper can sometimes be technical, containing technical jargons. Of you do not understand some of the technical terms, you can ask on their social media channel for clarity.

Of course. The white paper is one aspect that must be analyzed by investors before joining a project. White paper who explains the whole project, vision-mission, targets, which are arranged systematically and professionally will give a positive impression. That is why some scammers try to duplicate white papers from other real projects. To find out whether it's fake or not, you can use Plagiarism checker which is available free or paid on the internet. If necessary, change the PDf format white paper if it cannot be copied.

Whitepaper is an important aspect of every project a it serves as a guideline to many. It is important as it helps investors and crypto enthusiast know more about the project, its unique features and roadmap which determines whether the project is a short term or long term investment strategy. It also contains the legality of the project and I think whitepaper is really important to a project.

Whitepaper used to be highly important in the past but this days i think a strong team is a better benchmark for a good project..Majority of the projects i have researched recently with top notch whitepaper have done terribly in the crypto market with some even exit scamming.

Only those who has real intentions of developing their platform  has that kind of whitepaper. Truth be told, most of them are copy-and-paste from old projects. Very few is really putting their effort to create their own whitepapers. I believe this is one important aspect of the project to gauge the sincerity of the dev team whether they want to pursue their goals in this industry.

Unfortunately, these days, whitepapers of most projects mean nothing seeing how the crypto space has been bastardised by unprofessional projects seeking for relevance and the opportunity to grab as much money as they can. Back in 2017, most projects were worth something and actually had good whitepapers with decent concepts and roadmaps. Today, the reverse is the case and things aren't looking to change. Only few projects still have considerable whitepapers worth looking at.

Of a truth, it was meant to be important to study the Whitepaper before investing, at least that's what I learnt. But nowadays, it's not so important anymore as most projects are based on hype, and once that takes place all investors will be after hype and not what's written in the whitepaper. Taking IEOs today as example, how many investors really study any project whitepaper? But once it's an IEO major exchanges which of course comes with hype they will forget about the whitepaper and focus on how to participate.

of course, it is. Without whitepaper, how can people know a project's details and their main motto? Whitepaper and pitch deck are important for a project. Though most of the whitepaper's words just some black ink, nothing real.

Right. It's the most important among everything since it explains what the project is all about and what their investors should know. It's easy to identify if a whitepaper is either plagiarized or paraphrased through different tools available online. You will also notice if it's fake if their mission is quite the same as previous projects. On the other hand, don't depend too much on whitepaper since there are also a lot of good whitepapers whom weren't useful due to lacking of implemetation by its team.

yes the whitepaper on a bounty projects is very important because it is one of the most sought after details of bounty hunters as it is also a requirement that is very true to your legit project and not a scam.

The white paper is suppose to be all about the project. It is very important because in the white paper, you get to find the roadmap of the project and how everything concerning the project will go, but of recent when you check some white papers, it is not just worth reading, so another thing to consider before investing in the project is the team backing the project up.

By knowing and reading the whitepaper of a new project, we will get an overview of the product to be produced and estimated future income. Whitepaper might be like a prospectus in stocks and every investor in my opinion should understand the area to be invested

Strong team with no whitepaper? I'd never give into something like that. And how on earth would you know about strong teams anyway? Anyone these days can splash out a nice CV with blockchain expert and CSS wizard skills etc. But end of the day, no leadership and no real motivation to build product is going to lead to a project with no progress.

Of course the whitepaper is very important. To understand the project, you need to read the whitepaper and draw conclusions, if a project does not have a clear white paper, it could be a scam.

whitepaper is like the blueprint's core of the project itself. by reading it you will know about their vision, goals, and what will they solve about crypto with their own project.
Also with whitepaper you can compare the pros and cons about that project with the other projects.
For the way to find out which is the fake, you will see any same words as the other whitepaper had. You definitely need time to research it.

The white paper is very important for the success of the new project because the quality of the whitepaper, strong concept and the level of experience of the project are what woo crypto investors about investing in a project. Besides, the white paper provided more insight about the project which is not included in the project web page.

yes whitepaper is very important because the summary of a project's data is in the whitepapper, every time an investor wants to invest in a project the main thing they will see is whitepapper. so the importance of whitapaper because that's the essence of a project.

Yes whitepaper is important, it gives a breakdown of the project vision and mission. But whitepaper alone should not be the only source for one's research, since some information might be deceiving. You can always check for plagiarism to know if whitepaper was largely copied from another source or not.

Whitepaper helps me to check token economics, roadmap and understand the project aim too.  Some whitepaper are fake, so you need to verify if it is similar to  previous projects with similar aim. Legit projects will have high level of originality, fake projects will copy other project whitepaper.  In all, whitepaper is very vital for investors during research.

It is the backbone of  the project AFAIK. You may find some people on the Scam Accusations board that deal with it, you may ask them if you stumble some thread that discuss some plagiarized/fake whitepaper.

Whitepaper is one of the measurements or tools for us to see their road plan in the future we have here in crypto industry.
All the good content about the utility token was written all the flow how the project will run, together with the team background
of the campaign project. But sometimes scammer, they use other's whitepaper for them to find out a new victim, so be careful.

Is a plan to build a house important? If you just build a shack you can do without, if you want a sophisticated comfortable living home you its essential. You also need one if you depend on a loan to build.

We have seen a lot in this space and one of the ways to checkmate these projeCT’s is to research their white paper ! Although a lot of them just make a copy and edit stuff and just sweet coat the project to raise money and hang on the way ! But now it’s beyond just researching the whitepaper ! You need to check if the project is realistic , if the team are real and working , how are they making progress , does the project have real usable use case in the present world that is applicable to the everyday living ! These are what we should look for !

It can't be said any better. Its a technical description of a cryptocurrency project. It is supposed to have all the details of the project from the abstract, scope and including the roadmap which tells the future prospects very important to the decision of investors. Asides introduction, Tokenomics and team partnerships, the roadmap is also what I find very useful

Before I buy and join the project I always read the white paper because all of the details are in there. At first you wouldn't notice if the project white paper is for real because we need to wait until they delivered all what's in the white paper after releasing the project.

The whitepaper for any project is important and must be read by the investors and anyone who would like to know any important information related to the project such as (company information, road map, products, teams, problems facing the project and ways to solve it ... etc) This whitepaper is the project work plan and I consider it the heart of the project, There are projects that do not make their own whitepaper, this indicates that the project is unable to show all the details about the project, There are projects that use whitepapers for other projects and modify them to fit the whitepaper of their project, or they steal content and put it inside the whitepaper of their project without mentioning any source, these projects is nothing but a scam.

Of course, whitepaper analysis is very important when selecting a project. The document must be original (not plagiarized), correctly composed. It should contain information about the project idea, development and evolution plans.

A whitepaper is definitely a must-have for projects/startups. This is a very important piece that investors look at to better understand your mission and see if you have an achievable roadmap or not. I usually look at this trusted website where it averages the score (https://www.coincurb.com/?utm_source=lx) that other listing sites give it and help investors to know which ones are legit or not. Whitepaper is one of the few things that a project creates before they go public, and without it, it's a huge red flag.

Everything you say is true. I want to add a little more that in the whitepaper there is a vision, mission, ideas and even the most important thing. Which we can't find on the project website. So whitepaper is the main thing that you really should read carefully about the project.

whitepaper is very important in a project if in my opinion whitepaper is very important because the summary of a project being launched, a document that includes an outline of the problem the project wants to solve, a solution to that problem, as well as a detailed description of their product, its architecture, and its interaction with the contents of each white paper must cover points as far as I am

Whitepaper briefly describes a project, how a product is made and marketed. I think it's important to read the whitepaper if we are long-term investors because it takes quite a long time to produce a product

Definitely, the whitepaper is essential to me. Whitepaper explains almost everything about a project. As an investor, I always read the whitepaper of the project where I am investing. A whitepaper with trustworthy information about the project drags an investor to get involved in the project. So, new project authorities always aspire to bring a great whitepaper with each info which an investor is looking for. Whitepaper helps a project to become successful.

Whitepaper is importan in the project, as investor we should reaserch whitepaper before investing in project. Now many plagiarism whitepaper in some project and some are almost the same, all of that can show a project is not serious and ends in a scam.

Well i think everyone agree that whitepaper is important in the project. Its a complete information about the project that you want join. All the road map, allocation and details put in there. So if you want to long term invesment you need to read the whitepaper.

Personally, I believe that all project documentation should be in full as the user must know all the information about the project. And for the development of any project, you need to know all the subtleties of the development of the project’s business. The more necessary inflation, the easier it is to develop a project in this modern world.

I am not reading whitepapers, for me it is waste of time.
Projects could have so nice whitepapers with revolutionary ideas, but in most cases they do not achieve they goals because the team is not enough skilled.

in a project, the white paper is very important because it illustrates what a project will do in the future. in addition, the whitepaper also has all the information about the project, starting from the team, to all matters relating to the project.

we can find out that a project can potentially be a scam when the white paper is not made in good form. like the team and background, concepts that are similar to other projects, and so on. Some experience I have gotten is that the project that was just created has a whitepaper that is similar to an existing project, and that can be indicated as a scam, especially if there is no difference in that.

developer to explain of details with future chance on terms with the preparation of plan on projects with the investment offers for public audience as the use with reference to helps as improving stakes to deliver with higher limit on nominal of capital with the terms of initiation.

yes I agree with you, the importance of the white paper because the contents of the whole project or plan they want to launch are listed all in the whitepaper, so I think it's also very important to research or read the whitepaper before investing in the project.

in this case the whitepaper is quite important in terms of the projects that I will choose later. I certainly always research and study whitepapers and explore ideas or future project ideas.

Previously I thought that nothing can be more important than a whitepaper, but after several years I have finally realised that it is just a piece of paper. The only thing that really matters is the working product.

I do not think that whitepaper is the most important thing what you should care when you choose ICO to invest.
I would say that a lot of commits on github are more important that only promises in whitepaper.  ;)

I would say it is important if you going to investing on the project.
Putting your money without proper research will be like donating your money.
Whitepaper is a good source of your own research about the project, you will know what are the project's advantages, opportunities, and other things.

Of course whitepaper is important, but so does it's credibility and also the fact that if it can be accomplished.
If you ever go through certain whitepapers, you can see very fancy technology or very great written up target that attracts you.
But fact is, it is easy to say and write than to work out and built the real thing

Next, in order to find out if one whitepaper is real or fake, you really gotta read it and understand the whole concept than just trusting what people are writing
Look at the team and find out if the team member exist
Note: Always check out if the team member from the whitepaper are actually existed and check if they are actually participating in the activities of the company

For example, people could just write says that Vitalik are part of their Team. Vitalik does exist but is he really part of the team?
This is all the checklist you should have check before to verify the credibility of a project

- Project Roadmap
- Project use of funding (You don't want one project where it took most of the crowdfunded amount and spent on unnecessary stuffs)
- Team Member
- Timeline of what they going to accomplished

Whitepaper plays an important role in the development and success of a project as it forms part of the very few things to run checks on in order to ascertain the authenticity and capabilities of the project. It also gives investors a clear idea on what the project intends to do, how to do it and when to do it as this can be seen from the road map section within the whitepaper.

true, whitepaper is very important because the project development infrastructure is summarized in the whitepaper but the problem is there are many fake whitepapers, many scamers are revolutionizing other project whitepapers to make it look real. sometimes I find it hard to tell the difference.

examine in the forum as an indication that includes various ways to determine the project that we are working on or that we are currently running in the same forum as the original, not covering the false results that are in a project container that we are working on.

I think the whitepaper for a project is fundamental to understand it. But the roadmap with the dates of the various milestones is equally important. Only after this time will it be possible to see if they are respected or if there is a smell of scams.

whitepaper in a project holds all the documents about the project, there are lots of articles and explanations about the project. whitepapper is very important because with the whitepapper many people will become convinced of a project and many people will know the concept of the project

Right, whitepaper is one of the most important documents in a project. Before joining a project, you should first check their whitepaper by reading carefully, like financial models, Law problem, and roadmaps for implementation.
If you find a project with an unclear whitepaper, then the best step is to avoid unclear projects like that.

Yes, whitepaper is very important for a project. But they are sometimes not followed by the company who created it. And the rules can be changed after the appearance of the token or coin at the exchanges. It is important as it gives an idea what the team want to achieve, but it should not be 100 percent trusted.

The whitepaper is a must not because it became the tradition for every project that when they launched their token sales, we need to know what kind of project are they going to do and how it can help to promote the blockchain technology in the world. all of this is written on a single file which we called Whitepaper.

If you believe in crypto and blockchain, past hype of price, it is non negotiable.

For sure, every time I am browsing between the new and upcoming projects I tend to take a closer took at their whitepaper which is a pretty big indicator about the potential of the project and even their seriousness about it. So I simply eliminate those projects with sloppy 20 or 30 pages whitepapers.

I think the whitepaper for a project is fundamental to understand it. But the roadmap with the dates of the various milestones is equally important.

Whitepaper is indeed an important part of a project. The success of a project has a full dependancy on its whitepaper. The whitepaper contains the main idea of the project, its mission or goal, features and roadmap which serves as a guide to the project. Also investors and other traders focuses much on its roadmap to determine whether the project requires short or long term investment plan to make a decision so in a whole, whitepaper is really important to a project.

White paper is an important part of the project to be addressed in the future, so there must be investors who will read it carefully to avoid being fooled.

That is right, it is actually supposed to be the function of whitepaper, most of the solid projects that I did in 2017 caught my attention through their whitepaper, and during that time, whitepaper was far enough to judge the future of the company, but nowadays, it is a different thing as whitepaper is no longer enough to really decide if the project would be useful, genuine or not. 


Many developer now because of their childishness, or could I call it laziness just duplicate the whitepaper that they see, rewrites it and then present it to the public as the new concept or a better system to the existing one, this is why I don’t pay much attention to whitepapers again now, I just concentrate on researching more of the team and project eternally.

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The whitepaper serves as the backbone of every project and as such its role in the development of a project cannot be underestimated in any way. It serves as a gateway to the project where investors look and pass through to the project. Almost everything or information about the project must be captured in the whitepaper to ensure transparency.

Whether a project is real or fake it is still important for that project to have one, that's the only way to know their proposal.

it determine how credible the project is Well written papers are indication of good team work and personally I think that makes sense for investors to check out the likely success of the project

Of course! Every prospective investor before investing in a blockchain project will definitely read the whitepaper to find out more about the project, if there is no whitepaper how can a potential investor believe?

I see no reason to read all the white paper, as often the team does not realize any of this. I just look at the team and at the partners

core of the projects, it is very important, it provide the first impression of the project.
But it is very difficult to know if it is fake or no, it may be written in very good attractive way.

- Why not? Even without a whitepaper, if the project still provides enough information and necessary data, I believe many people still appreciate the project, the whitepaper is not so important as you think because since recent years, projects have appeared too much, ideas and plagiarism constantly, the whitepaper is no longer valid for investors to refer. Instead of trusting such documents, most wise investors always interact with the project, they always ask the project about the plans, confirm the partners of the project, then look at the community to predict the future

But reading a whitepaper is far more important than just seeing the team and project partners, because in the team can still be made fake and in partners can also be manipulated, so reading whitepaper is also important.

Yes, yet you shouldn’t rely on a whitepaper alone and how beautifully it is written. Linguistics is a tool for manipulation among other things.

This is the major reason I believe that we should not rely on the content of the whitepaper alone, white paper is very vital, and without it, we cannot even do the research that we want because that is what will give us the clue to know if the said project is genuine or not. At least from the white paper, you yourself could already even tell that the paper is fake because of the duplicity of it.

From white paper, we would be able to pick some research on the team that is stated on it and know if they are genuine by trying to communicate directly with them, and also be able to research on their level of experience, because I learnt that some scammers do go to the learnt of even hiring some people to act as team and can even be contacted.

Whitepaper is very important when you're having a project and we all know that whitepaper is the face of an project that mostly viewed by the investors. It is also use to determine whether the project is scam or its not because nowadays most people tend to scam their investors for their own goods and just leaving their investor without giving them what they deserve.

I read the white paper and use a plagiarism tool to check it out. I am also familiar with some of the layouts and setups on white papers so I can tell red flags when something starts looking a little too familiar to not be plagiarized. There many people here that do a good job and thanks to the new implementation of the warning at the top of the thread it helps. The white paper also tells you more about the sort of effort and things involved in the project. Too many white papers look too familiar and don't really say much more than one another other then the idea of the token. Kinda like a template you edit.

Whitepaper is a source of information relating to a project yes it's possible to research a project whitepaper to find out details about the project. Also on how to find a ream or fake project, it's all in the effort they put in their whitepaper if there's no effort aside copied items the projects isn't re but fake.

For those projects that are just entering the market, I think white paper is needed, especially if they want to enter the ieo a good exchange, especially on binance as it is a top exchange and expects that developers will develop their product.

yes it is also really important when we have the knowledge about something it is a collection of different things so the white paper is also giving the good idea about making the investment or not very easily that's why it is important.

Researching and reading a project's whitepaper is very necessary and important. The whitepaper contains the basic foundation of the project and the future image and purpose of the development of the project. It tells you the investor the particular gap the project is likely to provide solutions to.  Reading the whitepaper of a project tell you the investor how realistic the project is and whether its solutions or purpose can be achieved.

I have never thought of fake white paper, but I know of fake ICO/project. Everyone may not see white paper as been important, but if there is any other means at which details about the ICO can be conveyed it will be accepted. Not having any info may will make such ICO not be trusted.

Whitepaper is of much importance to a project as that of a travellers map. It is the feature or tool that helps investors in decision making and directs the project to a successful ending. It contains the structural aspect of a project which gives a summary about the project. So whitepaper is very important to a project.

I would begin by saying that it is highly essential for anyone who does not want to fall victim of scam bounty projects to take out time to read the whitepaper of the projects well. In the bid of doing that, several information will be discovered to really know much about what the projects have in plan. The roadmap of the projects will be highlighted in the whitepaper which talks more of the future projection of such projects. The whitepaper is just like the blueprint of what the entire project stands for. It gives more clue to the value and product development of the project and as well introduces the team working for the project. Hence, the white paper is of necessity to read before investing into any crypto project so as not to end up being scammed.

The fake whitepaper is likely copied off from the other project's whitepaper and there are not enough tools for determining the originality of the whitepaper, as far as I know. In other means, teams don't have an idea about the project but they want to make as much the money they can with token sales. Everyone is not capable to understand the deep meaning of the project but teams have to increase their knowledge with various teaching platforms.


If there is no reliable project, reading the whitepaper of the randomly chosen project will be as same as wasting time watching the TV. Partnerships are agreed before they publish this news on social media and the investors think about investing more to the specified project. If the investors don't have the true vision in the project, this project will live in the deep corner of the shitty exchange from my experience. Experienced traders pay attention to the whitepaper, team, the roadmap, etc. Teams also use psychological tricks for misleading the investors, this is not right move but they don't hesitate to do such dirty tricks, unfortunately.

One of the important aspect in choosing an ICO to invest your money , whitepaper is important to know and read before going to invest your money in a project. Most of investors want to know and read the whitepaper of a certain project before they decide to invest in it. But not every project is successfull even though their whitepaper is good.

The whitepaper serves as the blueprint, the framework and the foundation upon which the projects is built. It has got an incredible role in a project's development because it serves as one of the primary sources of information for investors and readers about the project. It gives an outline and in-depth description on how the project plans to execute its road map and makes available the goals, objectives, mission and vision of the project.

WP is very important in a project, from WP investors can find out what the projects they are building

Whitepaper is the most important in a project. The investors will pay attention on WP of the project. Only from WP, the investors the blueprint, the framework and the foundation of the project. They will not want to get lose their money. So, they should be carefull before they are going to invest their money.

to know if the whitepaper fake or not just read it carefully and try to inderstand it my friend
because we never know if we never read it buddy
also whitepaper is very important for any project beside the team member  ;)

Of course, whitepaper analysis is very important when selecting a project. The document must be original (not plagiarized), correctly composed. It should contain information about the project idea, development and evolution plans.

Of course it's important actually too much important for any kinda project. A good whitepaper carry a good project. Without a whitepaper it's literally tough to find a good project. Whitepaper seems like a core to a project. A good project always announce a good quality whitepaper and you can find there all details about that project.

yes you're right, whitepaper is everything. without it, investors will find it difficult to understand the goals, functions, benefits, vision and mission of the project itself. yes you're right, whitepaper is everything. without it, investors will find it difficult to understand the goals, functions, benefits, vision and mission of the project itself.

Whitepaper is an important part of the project development but not the most important aspect of it. What if the project presents a good whitepaper with all the catchy information yet the team are inexperienced enough to walk the talks? What if the team decides to run away or abandon the project along the way? This means that the team plays a very paramount role in project development than the whitepaper although the whitepaper cannot also be underestimated.

The white paper is a very key component in every blockchain start-up. But it becomes useless if the team are not dedicated and committed to hold to their promises and work hard to achieve their set targets in the white paper. To me white papers dont count anymore if the team is not committed

It is quite easy, try to compare it online and there a lots of free  software to check if the paragraph is copied from another article. Lots of whitepaper of some project even has typographical error in which the name of the project they copy the files are still there, so busted when it comes to project presentation.

This is the back bone of the project and might needed to show a great explanation and display of humor and technical parameters for this so team can easy look it up that way.

Very strange. This document, like nothing else, helps investors understand the goals of creating a project and the problems that it intends to solve. Therefore, understanding the structure of a technical document is an important point for each participant in the crypto sphere. This is necessary in order to avoid investments that would result in a loss of funds when investing in scam or participating in a fraud project.

Ha, I don’t even want you to ask this question, just accept that it is very important, although we have so many fake whitepapers too, but I don’t pay attention much to those promises that they make in there, when I pick up a whitepapers, what I research on first is the team, I check thoroughly through many ways I can use to verify team to ensure that the team as said in the whitepaper is real and that they are really behind the project.

We have some whitepapers where you will see a respected team member, but not associated because the developer lied, but once I am convinced about the team, then I can move to the next level of reading about the product and seeing if it is not another duplicated project of those that are already existing with their silly promises of making the initial one better.

Whitepaper becomes important if we want to invest for the long term because to make a product work takes time. I agree that Whitepaper will provide investors with an understanding of the project to be carried out and Investors must know the project to be worked on and the target roadmap to be achieved

Without whitepaper there is no serious project
BTW can someone point me to the segwit/lightning whitepaper, never had a look at it

Whitepaper is very important as it can explain the whole project and its future.
This one will make the investors to understand the project and might enlightened them and make them support it.
This will definitely strengthen the bond between the two.

The whitepaper is a very important tool in the success of a project. It contains details of how the project will be done and all the technology involved. If the whitepaper is not a detailed one then the project will definitely have a problem and wouldn't be successful.

I do not think that the project will not be successful if it does not have a very detailed white paper. everything will depend on the team and their project development strategy

I think that White Paper is primarily intended for investors, and how detailed it is drawn up will depend on how attractive the project will be for the investor.  But how much the success of the project depends on the connection of team professionalism and investment attractiveness is another matter.  If the team initially has start-up capital, then they have every chance and opportunity to launch their project, and the investor responds better to the finished product and investments come more actively if the person sees what he is investing in.

White Paper is very important in any project. If a project is handle by any team of professionals you will know it from the white paper. The more detail a white paper is the more attractive to investors. If someone can take the pain and sit down and write a very detailed information about a project there is high tendency that the project will be very successful. That's my opinion.

Yeah whitepaper is of very much importance to the progress and success of a project in more than numerous ways. It helps describes all about the project in a grand and official way whiles at the same time a guide to investors. Within the whitepaper contains details on such as the executive summary and roadmap which and guides the project to a successful end.

Yes, after reading the whitepaper, you can understand how the team responsibly approaches the creation of the project.

There are many different nuances, you need to find and read the topics on the forum, in which everything is painted in detail.

Are you kidding me, is asking for white paper important or not? Of course the whitepaper is the most important thing, like the blueprint, you can find out the team, the vision, and how they solve problems.
maybe your real question is, how do you detect whitepaper plagiarism?
You can use several "plagiarism" detection application /sites available on Google.

Whitepaper together with its roadmap plus knowing the transparency of the team behind does always matter because if you havent consider on checking these things on initial phase then you are just purely doing gambling because you are blindly selecting project without any analysis or verification if the said project is good or bad.Looking its WP
will tell everything on whats the project is all about and you can find it if its realistic or achievable or not.You can make self jurisdiction basing on your own investigative view and research.On this case you will determine if its worth to invest or just simply skip and find for another one but somehow even how good the WP is you cant still be sure or do have an assurance on getting up some success on your project investments.

One of the key things every investor looks out for before considering to invest in a project is its whitepaper. The layout, organization and typo free texts of the whitepaper alone gives a clue on the expertise level of the team behind the project. The whitepaper gives a vivid information about the project, its goals, how to achieve them and its benefits.

yes it is very important , in the whitepaper you wull know what the projects plans and company structure, and what theyy are planning to do with the coins, and its really what the investors are looking
because if you don't have plans , who are people going to invest in the project ? none so what the developers do and the people inside a project do first is the whitepaper its like a plan of the building you can't make a house without a plan or blueprint it will be a disaster without it so yes its very important

I believe whitepaper shows you the ambition of team members and you will find a complete plan of the project from the whitepaper. If you want to check that the project is worthy of investment, I think you need to do some market survey. I visited a site (https://www.coincurb.com/category/active-ico/) they have a decent rating and web-score structure that helpful.

Whitepaper is one of the first few things that people look at whenever a startup is being introduced to them. It may make or break what their first impression will be and it's where they can tell if the project has a good cause/missing something.

That's exactly it! I've translated my share of whitepapers and there are huge differences in content, organization, language, errors, etc... in that point of view it is not hard to spot a scam paper... nevertheless the scammers can crop parts of other good whitepapers and make a quick adaptation... that is not so easy to spot unless you have been reading a lot of them...
These topics are good to educate and fight scams

Whitepapers are important of every project..every investors must checking whitepapers..
I check whitepapers like CounosCoin or AxeCoin or..

It's imperative to take note of that a project's whitepaper is just expected to present the "thought" behind the project in a short and tolerably straightforward way. for instance bitcoin's whitepaper is clarifying what transaction structure is, a basic clarification of PoW, time stepping and the system.

for instance there are some altcoins that had smart thoughts however flopped appallingly in usage step so their entire project is currently viewed as a disappointment.

White paper gives us the opportunity to get acquainted with how the project is going to realize itself. Sometimes you can immediately see how stupidly and soullessly all the technical documentation was done,
the reading of which does not give any pleasure, this is the first sign of a weak project.

The ratings of a project does not guarantee a 100% success for the project. Some of these new projects buy the ratings. It is good to check the whitepaper, the structure of the website and the ratings of the project, yet it is better to go an extra mile to study the team as well and know their expertise level. This is very important because an inexperienced team will definitely end the project in failure.

For me whitepaper is the most important reference or guidelines for the investors and bounty hunters, every time there is a new project
that will arise here in the forum. Without this no one will get interest to support the project, it is the full content of the project where the community will going to have an idea about the plan, usages, features and more.