Sorry you took that last comment negatively, it wasn't meant to be, but I could have phrased things better. On the other hand, yes I could have been more arrogant too.
Just saying the blue paper took out/abridged quite a lot of important information to make it easy to understand. The white paper goes into it in detail to truly understand the workings of Steem. Only higher level you can go from their is actually reading the code which is even more daunting than the whtie paper.
As far as white papers go 32 pages is on the short side of them and it does give you some legs up in using the coin and the steemit platform to its fullest. As well as other dApps built on Steem.
By witnesses and developers doing nothing they are holding true to the code as it is coded and letting (dare I say it) the steem and steem dollar bubble play out as it will based on the open markets. Which in my opinion is the best thing they can do for the coin.
Again sorry for the negativity at first. Please accept my up vote on that comment to give you a more positive vibe from me as an apology.
Lol apology accepted :) I too am sometimes too quick on the keyboard and my comments comes across more negative than intended... I completely understand what you are saying about the whitepaper vs bluepaper, I simply think that the bluepaper is easier to understand, and therefore a better place for a complete beginner to start, which is why I recommended it to a newbie, as Spock would say "it's only logical". ;)