reading whitepapers is a great source of information for new people to the cryptospace, alot of these concepts seem very not needed sometimes I recommend you new folks to read Mybit whitepaper it will definetely open your eyes to a few pockets of the blockchains usage with certain sectors of the cryptosphere.
Anybody else has a couple of informative whitepapers, that opened your eyes to a certain technology or undervalued market or just good information?
Im about to read deeponion's!
Indeed, it is a good references before you want to investing in ICO projects.
Even you can notice if the ICO is fake or no, by reading the whitepaper. Many scammers just copy paste their whitepaper from others.
You will notice there are other company names if they don't change the copied whitepaper.