White Paper
A project's founding technical document.
A white paper is the document that lays out a crypto project's design, goals and technical approach. Bitcoin's white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto started the field.
Reading a coin's white paper is part of doing your own research before you commit hardware or money to mining or holding it.
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