Is bitcoin.org or bitcoincore.org the one to trust? &quot;Download Bitcoin Core&quot;: https://bitcoin.org/en/download
&quot;Download Bitcoin Core&quot;: https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/
I've been alternating between the two sites for years. I have no clue who to trust the most.
Why are there two? I mean, I get it, it's &quot;decentralized&quot;, but we all know that in practice, we must trust some kind of central source to get the actual &quot;reference implementation&quot;, which most of us do consider the official &quot;and only&quot; (for us) Bitcoin client.
There's something which psychologically prevents me from ever trusting one of the other Bitcoin wallets/clients. It seems to me that Bitcoin is so absurdly complicated that only one team can really get it right. I've spent endless hours over so many years just trying to understand it on a &quot;user&quot; level, but it's just an Enigma still in so many ways. I'm even nervous for the main Bitcoin Core team to make a mistake, by accident or through evil intentions.
It looks like https://bitcoincore.org/ is the one run by the people who run the Github bitcoin/bitcoin project (the actual core developers) since it is the one listed on their Github page: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
If you want the absolute best source for the client directly from Bitcoin Core devs then I would use that site or their Github page for downloads.
https://bitcoin.org is still, however, a reliable source for information on Bitcoin Core, and maintained by the community. However, it is owned by someone who isn't tied to the Bitcoin Core project itself (as far as I'm aware): https://github.com/cobra-bitcoin