Best Whitepapers to Read as a Beginner?

[jrrsparkles]

I find myself reading Whitepapers and barely understanding any of the technical languages or being able to formulate any form of assessment or analysis. I was hoping anyone would have recommendations for me and/or others on this forum to read to truly gauge many of the concepts and technicalities.

*EDIT* This is my first post and am extremely thankful for all of the advice! This forum appears to be very hospitable, thank you, everyone!

For a complete beginner I will not recommend to gather information from whitepaper of bitcoin and others because its more technically oriented so for an average joe it can be really confusing even lead to not choose to invest so I will recommend the documentary or short fils if how blockchain works which eventually give us better understanding in 20 or 30 mins video then we can go for reading the whitepaper then it will be easier for us to understand.

[Apocollapse]

@OP each project has their own whitepaper and there's no such best whitepaper. A beginner don't need to learn all thing, you just need to learn how it's work, the security and the reason you invest in that project. If you read many whitepapers of altcoins project, you will get confused.

If those whitepapers are old enough you could just use programs like chatgpt to summarize them to you like you wouldn't have highscool level of education or something like that. And if you have have an access to chatgpt4 you can do that with any whitepaper.

Terrible idea, asking Chatgpt to summarize it will give inaccurate definition and each whitepaper project is differ to another one, you can't expect it will summarize all of technical words in one. I will not be surprised if user will call Bitcoin fee is gas fee, decentralized exchange is uniswap and other misleading information.

[FanEagle]

I think it also depends on the project. Some of them has a technology which are too hard to understand for a common individual but in simple terms, they can contribute a big thing in the blockchain and crypto world as they can solve other existing problems in here.

There are also projects which use cases are only easy to understand like for example it was only a crypto exchange or a gambling site. The terms that are being used on them are less jargon. You just need to hang out often in this space and make it a habit to read stuffs related to them. If there are terms that you don't understand, you can copy them and search their definition in Google. You'll soon be good at them. Okay, buddy? Good luck!

[goldkingcoiner]

I would definitely start with the official Bitcoin whitepaper to understand cryptocurrency in its very essence. Otherwise any altcoin whitepaper you read is just an alteration with some somewhat new variations but ultimately is the same concept. After you are done reading, and most importantly, understanding Bitcoin, the next step is for you to read how Ethereum works. That will give you a higher focus on how smart contracts work and in what ways they can be used.

Everything else is not really all that necessary unless you want to be an expert in Blockchain.