Verdict
bitcoin.org appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | An informational, community-funded site about Bitcoin with donation prompts and educational resources for individuals, businesses, and developers. The page contains a BTC donation address and QR, navigation to guides/resources, and multilingual links. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 18 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2009483 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2009.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Bitcoin.org is an informational, community-funded website focused on Bitcoin education, offering resources for individuals, businesses, and developers while requesting BTC donations to support its open-source educational work.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a consistent informational purpose, with educational material covering Bitcoin basics, wallets, purchasing, businesses, development, documentation, and community resources rather than selling custodial or investment products. The captured site had no login form, sensitive input form, hidden form, wallet-connection activity, external posting, or observed wallet-drainer behavior. Independent reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, and the site has a top-tier global traffic footprint and established page authority. Its long-running historical presence is consistent with the current Bitcoin education mission, with no evidence of suspicious repurposing or brand impersonation.
- The homepage identifies the project as “Bitcoin - Open source P2P money” and provides educational navigation for individuals, businesses, and developers.
- The captured page contains no sensitive forms, login form, hidden forms, or untrusted form destinations; behavioral testing recorded zero wallet-connect and wallet-drainer runs.
- The domain was registered in 2008 and is approximately 17.99 years old.
- Historical records show 483 archive snapshots spanning 2009–2021, with 13 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available content supports an informational, donation-funded model rather than a regulated financial-service offering. The homepage describes BTC donations supporting the website and does not claim a financial-services license or provide a registration number; this is a limited disclosure point for any engagement that extends beyond educational content, not evidence of deception. Registration through NAMECHEAP INC, valid transport encryption, established historical continuity, clean external reputation, and mainstream hosting infrastructure provide converging support for the site's established identity. Any regulatory assessment should therefore be limited to the specific activity being undertaken, rather than inferred from the site's Bitcoin subject matter.
- The site's business model is presented as community-funded donations supporting an open-source educational project, with no captured offer of custodial services or financial products.
- The domain registrar is NAMECHEAP INC; registration date is 2008-08-18, and expiration date is 2034-08-18.
- The site is served from AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc. (CLOUDFLARENET).
- The TLS certificate uses DV validation, is issued by WE1, and is valid to 2026-11-04.
What to Verify Next
If an engagement involves a regulated service rather than educational browsing, the relevant provider and activity should be checked against the applicable regulatory register. Before making a donation or relying on an externally linked service, the destination and counterpart should be confirmed through the site's current official pages and an independent channel. Current privacy, terms, and support disclosures should also be reviewed if the relationship involves account creation or continuing communications.
- The homepage provides the primary description of the site's purpose and funding model.
- The site includes navigation to privacy information and extensive educational resources, allowing the scope of the engagement to be checked against the site's stated role.
- The captured page contains no sensitive transaction form or custodial workflow; any later service interaction should therefore be assessed as a separate activity.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is that of a legitimate, established, and trustworthy website with no observed scam or impersonation indicators. Normal interaction, including account login where offered and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare's CDN and WAF. Observed addresses belong to Cloudflare edge infrastructure, and the origin server was not observable in this analysis; this reduces direct exposure of the hosting origin and is a mitigating infrastructure control, not independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Routine browsing and normal site interaction are appropriate; any materially different financial, regulated, or third-party service activity should be evaluated according to the specific counterparty and transaction involved.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-10 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of bitcoin.org.
- The request stayed on bitcoin.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NAMECHEAP INC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2034-08-18. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-01-31. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NAMECHEAP INC |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3032::6815:956 |
| Name servers | keanu.ns.cloudflare.com, meera.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-04 |
| Domain age | 18.0 years |
| Domain expiry | 2034-08-18 |
| Archive first seen | 2009-01-31 |
| Archive snapshots | 483 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about bitcoin.org at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.