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<p><strong>the downloads at bitcoincore.org are the safer ones?</strong></p>
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<p><a href="https://bitcoincore.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoincore.org</a> is the website where developers of bitcoin-core place ready to use executables you can download.</p>
<p>I wouldn't characterise <a href="https://bitcoin.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoin.org</a> as unsafe but nowadays I would prefer to download executables from <a href="https://bitcoincore.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://bitcoincore.org</a></p>
<p>Some might argue that it is safer still to download <em>and carefully inspect</em> source code from <a href="https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin</a> and then compile it yourself.</p>
<p>Whatever you do you should take care to test the checksums and/or digital signatures, making sure you don't get the expected values or keys from the same download source.</p>

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RedGrittyBrick
<p>(more than bitcoin.org?)</p>
<p>And a few more questions regarding this:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Why did they change the naming of the versions from 0.xx to xx.0? (latest update changed from 0.21 to 22.0).</p>
</li>
<li><p>Why they did not add the docs for the RPC API of version 22.0?</p>
</li>
<li><p>Will they update the API to use JSON-RPC version 2.0?</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>**This is the same question divided to sub-questions that are related so please don't delete.</p>

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For the version change see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20223.
Vojtěch Strnad
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Just to be sure, the downloads at bitcoincore.org are the safer ones?
LesserFlow
# Just to be sure, the downloads at bitcoincore.org are the safer ones?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-11-08)

(more than bitcoin.org?)

And a few more questions regarding this:

1. Why did they change the naming of the versions from 0.xx to xx.0? (latest update changed from 0.21 to 22.0).
2. Why they did not add the docs for the RPC API of version 22.0?
3. Will they update the API to use JSON-RPC version 2.0?

\*\*This is the same question divided to sub-questions that are related so please don't delete.

**Tags:** bitcoin-core, json-rpc

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: For the version change see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20223.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2021-11-08. Score: 1

> **the downloads at bitcoincore.org are the safer ones?**

<https://bitcoincore.org> is the website where developers of bitcoin-core place ready to use executables you can download.

I wouldn't characterise <https://bitcoin.org> as unsafe but nowadays I would prefer to download executables from <https://bitcoincore.org>

Some might argue that it is safer still to download *and carefully inspect* source code from <https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin> and then compile it yourself.

Whatever you do you should take care to test the checksums and/or digital signatures, making sure you don't get the expected values or keys from the same download source.


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