Pros and cons of whitepapers

[Swenna]

A whitepaper is an authoritative report that gives everyone all the information needed and a bird's eye view over a project or an ICO. It contains the background, history as well as its current and future development. Therefore it is very important. The more a whitepaper is detailed and well-written, the more it will be able to attract future investors.

Howrver, nowadays, ICO scams had also taken into consideration how important whitepaper is. That is why some ICO's are actualy investing on having a well-written whitepaper to fool not only newbies.

[zero4five]

White paper is an important document that tells how the project technology will work.
This file usually contains a detailed description of the architecture, as well as how the users interact with the system, information about the current market situation and growth forecasts, the conditions for issuing and using tokens, and a list of team members, investors and project consultants.
The WP should be written so that any investor who is not even familiar with cryptography understands the idea of the project.

[SixOfFive]

Whitepaper is a document which is prepared by the developing team of an ICO prior to the launch of new currency which specifies the details of the coin or the associated project. A whitepaper is considered good if it clearly gives the complete details of the project and clearly defines the roadmap. The future prospects should be made clear in the whitepaper. Whereas, a whitepaper is considered bad when the details about the project are not given completely and clearly.

[3la9l_kolbaCa]

Question for everyone, what are the signs of a good whitepaper and also signs of a bad one.

Base on my understanding the whitepaper is the details where we can see what kind of platform that we are going to deal on it. You can read their the inputs like the pros and cons that you wanted to know. But all along white paper is just and informations that needs to scan for us to understand well. It is also prepared by the team who made the project it is kinda document prior to launch the developing project.

[Zidanmusk]

I think the Whitepaper of a fake project will be messy with no proper structure or meaning. The details will be at a high level or not relevant at all to the project title. Nothing will make decent sense. A good project will have a properly structured whitepaper with a detailed description of the project plan and its implementation.

[Zidanmusk]

I think the Whitepaper of a fake project will be messy with no proper structure or meaning. The details will be at a high level or not relevant at all to the project title. Nothing will make decent sense. A good project will have a properly structured whitepaper with a detailed description of the project plan and its implementation.

[jmigdlc99]

Question for everyone, what are the signs of a good whitepaper and also signs of a bad one.

Seems like your topic title is misleading. I believe you are looking for signs that indicate if a whitepaper is good or bad.

Anyway, to help you with this here are some guidelines:

1. If there are no grammatical errors.
2. If it has coherent content that actually outlines the project's purpose, solution, and roadmap.
3. If it looks professional. Some whitepapers look like they were just typed in MS word and don't even have any type of styling or design.

[roxan iris]

Personally, I think a good whitepaper:
- Gets the point across
- Does not market
- Is highly academic
- Describes attacks against the cryptocurrency, and how they are countered
- Describes the mathematics and cryptography adequately and technically

[chriselda nina]

Honestly, I used to read a bad whitepaper. It looks like a PowerPoint presentation which doesn't describe the mathematics, lacks references, and tries to cover for a lack of innovation.

[britai ruby]

From my point of view, I think that a good whitepaper will clearly state the problem to be solved, and the solution to be provided.

[thomas daniel]

A good whitepaper should mention the business benefits. This section is the soul of a white paper, and discuss return on investment (ROI), usability, adherence to standards, and speed of implementation.

[Baldric Anderson]

Personally, I do not speak highly of a whitepaper including spelling mistakes, because it is not professional. I think it's a bad whitepaper, so I will not invest in that project.

[VenturaBro]

Question for everyone, what are the signs of a good whitepaper and also signs of a bad one.

Seems like your topic title is misleading. I believe you are looking for signs that indicate if a whitepaper is good or bad.

Anyway, to help you with this here are some guidelines:

1. If there are no grammatical errors.
2. If it has coherent content that actually outlines the project's purpose, solution, and roadmap.
3. If it looks professional. Some whitepapers look like they were just typed in MS word and don't even have any type of styling or design.

Pretty much. It's much easier to tell if a whitepaper is bad after reading a lot of them, you can easily tell from the experience.

[tranquann000]

A good whitepaper attracts investors, so a simple way of marketing is whitepaper.
If you have not a well and basic defined whitepaper you can not find potential investor so much.

[LyaBog]

Documents are an important part of the ICO.  because it contains all the details of the project.  This is the same as the business plan.  So the projects have development goals.  This is the engine for creating a promising project.  And it motivates all interested investors.

[JohnYDillinger]

White paper is really important document, the main pros is that devs usually put there all the information..

[hongtranggg]

I think that a good white paper should have a clear plan and a substantive role. It must be clear when it introduces its project, and it must be practical, and it must have sufficient innovation. This will attract a lot of investment. This will make this project better developed.

[vladaziya1]

I think it needs to be learned from people who use it, because who does not use is difficult to explain. Very interesting question for owners.

[susutao87]

From my point of view, a good whitepaper should have the team section. I think it is the most important section of any whitepaper. I like to know who they are, what their objectives are, and what their reasonable solutions.