Blog: New Bitcoin Core sub-site

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+title: "New Bitcoin Core Sub-Site"
+permalink: /en/posts/bitcoin-core-subsite.html
+## Set correct date at merge
+date: 2015-09-14
+author: |
+  <a href="https://github.com/harding">David A. Harding</a>
+---
+
+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.
+
+{:.center}
+![Excerpts from Bitcoin.org's Bitcoin Core pages](/img/blog/free/bitcoin-core-pages-collage.png)
+
+{:.center}
+*Excepts from Bitcoin.org's <a href="/en/bitcoin-core/">Bitcoin Core</a> pages*
+
+Both Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin.org have come a long way since the site
+began promoting the earliest public versions of the software.
+
+{:.center}
+![Bitcoin.org homepage, 3 March 2009](/img/blog/free/bitcoin-org-2009-03-03.png)
+
+{:.center}
+*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.
+
+## A Brief Guide to The New Pages
+
+- [Bitcoin Core overview][]: provides a brief description of Bitcoin
+  Core and links to the other sections of the sub-site.
+
+- [Feature overview][]: briefly describes some of Bitcoin Core's
+  leading benefits and links to pages that provide more details.
+
+- [Get help page][]: resources to help Bitcoin Core users find help.
+  Prior to this PR, we also created and filled a category on the Bitcoin
+  Wiki with all the existing [Bitcoin Core help pages][].
+
+- [Contribute overview][]: links to ways you can directly contribute to
+  Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Core users.
+
+## Future Plans
+
+We plan to enhance this new section of the Bitcoin.org website by
+collecting together some of Bitcoin Core's disparate documentation and
+providing instructions for important ways users can enhance their privacy and
+security while using Bitcoin Core—such as using Tor and an offline
+wallet.
+
+In addition, we hope to provide more resources that help businesses
+understand the benefits of validating the transactions they receive with
+their own full nodes.
+
+If you want to help, please feel free to email the Bitcoin.org
+documentation maintainer,
+{{site.text.bitcoin_org_docs_maintainer_email_link}}.
+
+## Thank You
+
+Thank you to everyone who made these pages possible, especially the
+people who reviewed Bitcoin.org pull requests [1044][],
+[1009][], [1007][], [966][], [957][], and [869][] as well as the
+[Bitcoin Foundation][] for their funding of the Bitcoin.org server
+during the time these pages were written.
+
+We hope you enjoy the new pages.  If you see any problems, please don't
+hesitate to [open an issue][].
+
+[Bitcoin Core]: /en/bitcoin-core/
+[Bitcoin Core's powerful features]: /en/bitcoin-core/features/
+[provide help]: /en/bitcoin-core/help
+[start contributing]: /en/bitcoin-core/contribute/
+[Internet Archive]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090303195936/http://bitcoin.org/
+[helps protect Bitcoin's essential decentralization]: /en/bitcoin-core/features/validation#help-protect-decentralization
+[bitcoin core overview]: /en/bitcoin-core/
+[feature overview]: /en/bitcoin-core/features/
+[get help page]: /en/bitcoin-core/help
+[Bitcoin Core help pages]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Bitcoin_Core_documentation
+[contribute overview]: /en/bitcoin-core/contribute/
+[1044]: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/1044
+[1009]: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/1009
+[1007]: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/1007
+[966]: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/966
+[957]: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/957
+[869]: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/pull/869
+[Bitcoin Foundation]: https://bitcoinfoundation.org/
+[open an issue]: https://github.com/bitcoin-dot-org/bitcoin.org/issues/new