White papers fulfill, in a way, the task of a document for the system’s foundation for digital currencies. In it, fees, signatures, mining, and other important cryptographic aspects relevant to networks for the network function are explained. Ultimately, a white paper is a scientific paper.
In the Bitcoin Whitepaper, Satoshi Nakamoto described the functionality and structure of Bitcoin. For example, Bitcoin mining or the Bitcoin halving. The Bitcoin Whitepaper is comparatively short with eight pages.
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