Bitcoin.org is proud to announce the addition of a dozen new pages to the site about Bitcoin Core. Several of the pages describe Bitcoin Core’s powerful features, others provide help for Bitcoin Core users, and several make it easier to start contributing to Bitcoin Core.

Excerpts from Bitcoin.org's Bitcoin Core pages

Excerpts from Bitcoin.org’s Bitcoin Core pages

Both Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin.org have come a long way since the site began promoting the earliest public versions of the software.

Bitcoin.org homepage, 3 March 2009

Bitcoin.org homepage, 3 March 2009 (Internet Archive)

These new pages give us a chance to introduce more recent Bitcoin users to the advantages of full nodes like Bitcoin Core, particularly how full validation helps protect Bitcoin’s essential decentralization from takeover by a handful of miners, Bitcoin banks, and service providers.