04 Feb 2025

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BitTorrent Weekly Report | 01.27–02.02

Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard in 2004, BitTorrent, Inc. is a consumer software company based in San Francisco. Its protocol is the largest decentralized P2P network in the world, driving 22% of upstream and 3% of downstream traffic globally.

Its flagship desktop and mobile products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, enable users to send large files over the internet, connecting legitimate third-party content providers with users. With over 100 million active users, BitTorrent products have been installed on over 1 billion devices in over 138 countries worldwide.

Since November 2018, TRON (TRX), Binance (BNB), and Bitcoin (BTC) holders have the opportunity to purchase one-year subscriptions of BitTorrent or µTorrent products, including Ads Free and Pro for Windows. Pro includes anti-virus and anti-malware screening, file converting and playability in HD. Users can visit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com to learn more.

04 Feb 2025 5:12am GMT

28 Jan 2025

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BitTorrent Weekly Report | 01.20–01.26

Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard in 2004, BitTorrent, Inc. is a consumer software company based in San Francisco. Its protocol is the largest decentralized P2P network in the world, driving 22% of upstream and 3% of downstream traffic globally.

Its flagship desktop and mobile products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, enable users to send large files over the internet, connecting legitimate third-party content providers with users. With over 100 million active users, BitTorrent products have been installed on over 1 billion devices in over 138 countries worldwide.

Since November 2018, TRON (TRX), Binance (BNB), and Bitcoin (BTC) holders have the opportunity to purchase one-year subscriptions of BitTorrent or µTorrent products, including Ads Free and Pro for Windows. Pro includes anti-virus and anti-malware screening, file converting and playability in HD. Users can visit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com to learn more.

28 Jan 2025 2:46am GMT

21 Jan 2025

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BitTorrent Weekly Report | 01.13–01.19

Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard in 2004, BitTorrent, Inc. is a consumer software company based in San Francisco. Its protocol is the largest decentralized P2P network in the world, driving 22% of upstream and 3% of downstream traffic globally.

Its flagship desktop and mobile products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, enable users to send large files over the internet, connecting legitimate third-party content providers with users. With over 100 million active users, BitTorrent products have been installed on over 1 billion devices in over 138 countries worldwide.

Since November 2018, TRON (TRX), Binance (BNB), and Bitcoin (BTC) holders have the opportunity to purchase one-year subscriptions of BitTorrent or µTorrent products, including Ads Free and Pro for Windows. Pro includes anti-virus and anti-malware screening, file converting and playability in HD. Users can visit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com to learn more.

21 Jan 2025 7:59am GMT

14 Jan 2025

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BitTorrent Weekly Report | 01.06–01.12

Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard in 2004, BitTorrent, Inc. is a consumer software company based in San Francisco. Its protocol is the largest decentralized P2P network in the world, driving 22% of upstream and 3% of downstream traffic globally.

Its flagship desktop and mobile products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, enable users to send large files over the internet, connecting legitimate third-party content providers with users. With over 100 million active users, BitTorrent products have been installed on over 1 billion devices in over 138 countries worldwide.

Since November 2018, TRON (TRX), Binance (BNB), and Bitcoin (BTC) holders have the opportunity to purchase one-year subscriptions of BitTorrent or µTorrent products, including Ads Free and Pro for Windows. Pro includes anti-virus and anti-malware screening, file converting and playability in HD. Users can visit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com to learn more.

14 Jan 2025 7:19am GMT

07 Jan 2025

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BitTorrent Weekly Report | 12.30–01.05

Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard in 2004, BitTorrent, Inc. is a consumer software company based in San Francisco. Its protocol is the largest decentralized P2P network in the world, driving 22% of upstream and 3% of downstream traffic globally.

Its flagship desktop and mobile products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, enable users to send large files over the internet, connecting legitimate third-party content providers with users. With over 100 million active users, BitTorrent products have been installed on over 1 billion devices in over 138 countries worldwide.

Since November 2018, TRON (TRX), Binance (BNB), and Bitcoin (BTC) holders have the opportunity to purchase one-year subscriptions of BitTorrent or µTorrent products, including Ads Free and Pro for Windows. Pro includes anti-virus and anti-malware screening, file converting and playability in HD. Users can visit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com to learn more.

07 Jan 2025 10:07am GMT

03 Jan 2025

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BTFS in 2024: Charting New Frontiers of Innovation

BTFS (BitTorrent File System) has made impressive strides in 2024, achieving remarkable breakthroughs in scalability, security, and user experience. These advancements have fueled broader global interest, drawing a diverse community of users and developers into the BTFS ecosystem.

Network Performance

The BTFS distributed network truly excelled this year. Through three rounds of architectural upgrades and cutting-edge technological implementations, BTFS significantly boosted its storage efficiency while pushing the boundaries of decentralization, delivering superior transaction processing and a more seamless user experience. Meanwhile, the BTFS community successfully passed six new proposals during this year.

- Total Miners: 8,606,472

- Super Miners: 6,903,081

- Total Revenue: 27,370B BTT

These metrics showcase the BTFS community's dynamic engagement and the network's promising economic outlook, demonstrating its immense potential as a decentralized storage solution.

Ecosystem Growth

BTFS witnessed robust growth in 2024, evidenced by compelling indicators:

- Total Storage Used: 5.33 PiB

- Storage Contracts: 179,831,269

These indicators reveal BTFS's emergence as the preferred data storage and sharing platform for an expanding user and developer base. Powered by innovative products like Storage3 and BTFS Finder, the BTFS ecosystem continues to expand its reach. As a cornerstone of the BTFS ecosystem, BTFS Finder is intuitively designed to help users easily access resources across the network. Whether searching for documents, media files, or metadata, users can now navigate and access these files with unprecedented ease and efficiency.

Security Enhancement

In 2024, BTFS placed a strong focus on network security, taking user privacy and data protection to the next level through comprehensive security enhancements. A standout improvement was the release of BTFS v3.1.0, which introduced enhanced dashboard encryption to safeguard node private keys. These efforts underscore BTFS's commitment to creating a more secure blockchain ecosystem for both users and developers.

Halving Event

The Reward Halving update, marked by protocol enhancements, website improvements, and mining rewards halving, is another major milestone for BTFS in 2024. As a pioneering project in the Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) sector, BTFS leveraged this upgrade to improve storage efficiency, expand its user base, and foster a dynamic cycle in its ecosystem.

Conclusion

Integration and development defined BTFS's journey in 2024. Through tireless efforts in network optimization, security enhancement, and ecosystem innovation, BTFS has proven itself as a trailblazer with immense growth potential in the blockchain space.

About BTFS

The BitTorrent File System (BTFS) is both a protocol and a web application that provides a content-addressable peer-to-peer mechanism for storing and sharing digital content in a decentralized file system, as well as a base platform for decentralized applications (Dapp). The BTFS team has been working on the latest network operations and BTT market sentiment, etc., to make a series of dynamic adjustments such as upload prices and airdrop reward schemes.

03 Jan 2025 3:29am GMT

02 Jan 2025

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BTFS Protocol v3.2.0 Mainnet Is Now Live!

Key Upgrades:

- BTIP-79: CIDs can now be filtered when you access them through the gateway.

- Resource Summary: A summary of resources used by the libp2p resource manager is now available.

- Modification Time: Files stored in MFS now feature a timestamp for their most recent edits.

We are dedicated to refining the BTFS protocol and driving the progress of decentralized networks. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us at any time.

Resources for BTFS v3.2.0 Mainnet:

● GitHub repo for BTFS v3.2.0 Mainnet: https://github.com/bittorrent/go-btfs/releases/tag/btfs-v3.2.0

● BTFS Dashboard repo: https://github.com/bittorrent/btfs-dashboard

● BTFS official website: https://www.btfs.io

● BTFS SCAN: https://scan.btfs.io

● BTFS documentation: https://docs.btfs.io/docs

Contact Us

Have any questions or want to engage with fellow BTFS users? Connect with us and be part of the community:

● Discord: https://discord.gg/VmMjp2gvAB

● Medium: https://medium.com/@BitTorrent

● X (formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/BitTorrent

About BTFS

The BitTorrent File System (BTFS) is both a protocol and a web application that provides a content-addressable peer-to-peer mechanism for storing and sharing digital content in a decentralized file system, as well as a base platform for decentralized applications (Dapp). The BTFS team has been working on the latest network operations and BTT market sentiment, etc., to make a series of dynamic adjustments such as upload prices and airdrop reward schemes.

02 Jan 2025 9:22am GMT

31 Dec 2024

feedStories by BitTorrent Inc. on Medium

BitTorrent Weekly Report | 12.23–12.29

Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard in 2004, BitTorrent, Inc. is a consumer software company based in San Francisco. Its protocol is the largest decentralized P2P network in the world, driving 22% of upstream and 3% of downstream traffic globally.

Its flagship desktop and mobile products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, enable users to send large files over the internet, connecting legitimate third-party content providers with users. With over 100 million active users, BitTorrent products have been installed on over 1 billion devices in over 138 countries worldwide.

Since November 2018, TRON (TRX), Binance (BNB), and Bitcoin (BTC) holders have the opportunity to purchase one-year subscriptions of BitTorrent or µTorrent products, including Ads Free and Pro for Windows. Pro includes anti-virus and anti-malware screening, file converting and playability in HD. Users can visit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com to learn more.

31 Dec 2024 10:08am GMT

24 Dec 2024

feedStories by BitTorrent Inc. on Medium

BitTorrent Weekly Report | 12.16–12.22

Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard in 2004, BitTorrent, Inc. is a consumer software company based in San Francisco. Its protocol is the largest decentralized P2P network in the world, driving 22% of upstream and 3% of downstream traffic globally.

Its flagship desktop and mobile products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, enable users to send large files over the internet, connecting legitimate third-party content providers with users. With over 100 million active users, BitTorrent products have been installed on over 1 billion devices in over 138 countries worldwide.

Since November 2018, TRON (TRX), Binance (BNB), and Bitcoin (BTC) holders have the opportunity to purchase one-year subscriptions of BitTorrent or µTorrent products, including Ads Free and Pro for Windows. Pro includes anti-virus and anti-malware screening, file converting and playability in HD. Users can visit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com to learn more.

24 Dec 2024 1:41am GMT

17 Dec 2024

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BitTorrent Weekly Report | 12.09–12.15

Founded with a leading peer-to-peer sharing technology standard in 2004, BitTorrent, Inc. is a consumer software company based in San Francisco. Its protocol is the largest decentralized P2P network in the world, driving 22% of upstream and 3% of downstream traffic globally.

Its flagship desktop and mobile products, BitTorrent and µTorrent, enable users to send large files over the internet, connecting legitimate third-party content providers with users. With over 100 million active users, BitTorrent products have been installed on over 1 billion devices in over 138 countries worldwide.

Since November 2018, TRON (TRX), Binance (BNB), and Bitcoin (BTC) holders have the opportunity to purchase one-year subscriptions of BitTorrent or µTorrent products, including Ads Free and Pro for Windows. Pro includes anti-virus and anti-malware screening, file converting and playability in HD. Users can visit bittorrent.com or utorrent.com to learn more.

17 Dec 2024 10:01am GMT