Reading white papers is very important as its one of the best ways to get to know about a project. You get to access the project well looking closely into ts structure,goals and development team. i read white papers but there are sections such a the technical sections of the project that doesn't interest me.
I agree with your opinion! I think Whitepaper is our initial capital to run the gift. So we know clearly the benefits of the bounty that we follow. Whitepaper also we can use as material for you who are interested to follow bounty using blog.