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!
I am pretty sure that not many people read whitepapers. But those who do - they develop.
I usually skip all technological side cause I am not a tech guy, and concenrate on general idea, global vision (what project is going to achieve, which problem to solve), team, advisors and hardcap (plus % allocation to the crowdsale).
I see that today people used to follow influencers and have very little personal understading and expectations. Currently market ignores some great projects because nobody from influencers speak about them - everubody is looking for new ICO with X2-4 forgetting that there are old great projects that are ready to explode.
Yeah, I never was the technological guy, but reading the papers and listening to some of these youtubers.. you can of weed out who is saying B.S. and who knows what they're talking about.. like one concept im trying to wrap my head around is the Sharding feature.. from my knowledge it basically takes pieces of information and spreads it across the network, which im guessing keeps the network/nodesup to speed alot faster because the bits of information are destributed, which breaks them down in size. I heard somewhere cant really remember with all this tech, news, and government drama.. but they were saying to run that sharding feature it will require alot of computational power and all types of stuff..