I have read the white paper a couple of times.  Thing is, bitcoin is a v1.0 piece of software at best.  It has so many flaws it is hard to know where to start.  And layer 2 things like Lightning Network are simply a small sticking plaster over a big hole at best.  It works, but that is not really good enough these days.

I'm just trying to come up with suggestions for v2.0.