How Blockchain Whitepapers Became Worldbuilding Documents

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-blockchain-whitepapers-became-worldbuilding-documents. A firsthand reflection on writing blockchain whitepapers during the ICO boom, and on becoming an unlikely author of futures that did not yet exist. Check more stories related to web3 at: https://hackernoon.com/c/web3. You can also check exclusive content about #web3, #blockchain, #ethereum, #ico, #whitepapers, #storytelling, #web-history, #startups, and more. This story was written by: @intellicorepress. Learn more about this writer by checking @intellicorepress's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. During the ICO boom, whitepapers moved from technical documents to world-building tools: part pitch deck, part manifesto, part speculative fiction. This essay revisits what it felt like to write them from the inside.