I'm sure your answer is up to the mark but I don't think as new comer he doesn't know what a "white paper" is! Oh let me guess now he needs know what white paper is first and then he can start reading it. ;-)

To OP,  you can start working with the forum itself and you will see many generous topics created for the newbie like you. It's a vast world and just reading white paper wont help. Realistically you have to know things which are out of the whitepaper because many things have changed since that!

Just go through the simple reasons first , may be few steemit blogs, forum guidelines itself and many topics discussion that are specifically made over the bitcoin.