Verdict
en.bitcoin.it 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 | Main page of the Bitcoin Wiki — a community-maintained encyclopedia for information about Bitcoin, covering technical details, FAQs, wallets, mining, privacy, and community resources. Content is editorial and non-commercial. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- 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 | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20141 snapshot | 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 2014.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a community-maintained Bitcoin encyclopedia presenting technical explanations, wallet and security guidance, mining and trading information, privacy material, frequently asked questions, and community resources. Its apparent purpose is editorial and informational rather than the provision of financial, custodial, or transactional services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent community-wiki model, identifies the publication as maintained by the Bitcoin community, and contains no direct financial-service flow, sensitive login form, wallet connection, or custodial transaction mechanism. External reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, no phishing or impersonation indicators, and no abuse reports associated with the observed delivery infrastructure. The site’s long registration continuity and consistent informational purpose further support an established-site interpretation, although the real-world operator is not independently verified.
- The homepage is titled “Bitcoin Wiki - Main Page,” describes the site as community-maintained, and presents editorial Bitcoin content rather than a commercial service.
- The homepage analysis recorded no sensitive forms, login form, hidden forms, wallet-connect activity, wallet-drainer behavior, or clipboard-hijacking behavior.
- External checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no phishing or blacklist hit.
- The domain was registered in 2010 and is approximately 15.7 years old; archive records contain 1 snapshot from 2014-03-28 to 2014-03-28, spanning 1 tracked year. The limited archive capture is not evidence of a recent domain or suspicious repurposing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed content supports an informational wiki classification, so no financial-services licensing claim is apparent or necessary for the stated business model. The site does not independently establish a verified legal-entity profile for its operator, and no license authority or registration number is presented in the reviewed content; this is a transparency and verification point rather than evidence of fraud. A separate broker-reputation dataset returned no match, which is contextual support but not a regulatory determination. Transport and hosting telemetry are technically consistent with a functioning, established web service.
- The registration record lists Marcaria.com EU limited as registrar and ICRON SERVICES LTD as the recorded organization.
- The site is served from AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc. (CLOUDFLARENET), US.
- The transport certificate is issued by WE1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-09-22T11:42:48+00:00.
- No broker-reputation match was returned.
What to Verify Next
Before any future credential or payment interaction associated with the site, an independent corporate-record check should establish whether the recorded organization is responsible for the publication. If a separate service is reached through a site link, its legal entity, licensing status, terms, refund or return provisions, and payment-protection arrangements should be assessed independently rather than inferred from the wiki’s reputation. Official support or contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before sensitive engagement.
- The reviewed content describes an editorial community resource rather than a regulated financial service.
- Operator identity remains independently unverified despite the registration record identifying an organization.
- The reviewed page contains no license authority or license number to validate against an external registry.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high-trust and low-risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate informational website. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-conflict indicators were observed. The assessment supports ordinary informational use, but it should not be interpreted as independent proof of the real-world operator’s identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN and WAF protection fronts the website, with observed service resolution through Cloudflare’s edge network and AS13335. This is a meaningful mitigating control against direct exposure and common delivery-layer abuse, but protective hosting infrastructure is not, by itself, proof of operator legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Informational browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture; any later credential or payment interaction should follow ordinary independent checks of merchant identity, service terms, return or refund provisions, and payment protection.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 | 50% |
- 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 en.bitcoin.it.
- The request stayed on en.bitcoin.it. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Marcaria.com EU limited. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-21. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2014-03-28. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Marcaria.com EU limited |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:20::ac43:4b9c |
| Name servers | amy.ns.cloudflare.com brad.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-22 |
| Domain age | 15.70 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-21 |
| Archive first seen | 2014-03-28 |
| Archive snapshots | 1 |
| 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 en.bitcoin.it 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.