Examples of “whitepaper” in a Sentence

noun A document published by the people behind a cryptocurrency or blockchain project that sets out what it is meant to do and how it is designed to work, usually including its technical structure and how its tokens are to be issued.

• Bitcoin's whitepaper was published in 2008 under the name Satoshi Nakamoto.
• He read the whitepaper twice and still could not work out what the token was actually for.

noun In business and government generally, an authoritative report that explains an issue or a proposal and argues for a particular approach to it.

• The department published a whitepaper on energy pricing ahead of the consultation.