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Just asking...

JoyStream was being built with that aim, but they're in test phase and only work with the testnet, I think... There aren't other systems like that, that I know of.

In a way you can do it.
There's an altcoin called Storj,provides distributed cloud storage: http://storj.io/
And gives away some coins that you can sell for bitcoins later.

Isn't there another one called the Sia coin that works with the same principle by sharing the storage?

I have another question, can I pay others to seed a torrent? It'd be nice to know what tool I can use to do something like this but it'd be better if there was a detailed tutorial on how to use it.

supercopier or µtorrent integrate a miner of bitcoin ... now.

afaik they launched already, but i didn't personally tryed them out. Doubt you can earn much that way tho.


Check out YourSeedbox,GBox,DTS Leech and ByteSized Hosting; they are claimed to all accept bitcoin as payment option.
Regarding the tutorial; you can always find one on youtube.

Torrent seeding for bitcoin is of course possible, you just have to write the client with built-in bitcoin functionality. However, it borders on piracy (if you're seeding illegal content). Therefore, you have to be extra careful.

I'm pretty sure op was referring to third party services that are already offering such service. Doubt op will make whole client based operation just to earn some dust seeding.
Also, there's nothing illegal in p2p network sharing - it's all about the content of the seeded files.

Yes, I have heard of joystream also, and am eager for them to launch into the open. Would be great to seed for satoshi, even if it weren't too much.

not with bitcoin,but with other crypto.

Joystream is in the works now, I think, and it could really bring the torrent scene a new start. I'm an avid torrent user, and I seed and leech A LOT, so why not use my spare bandwidth and share it to others? The thing is, if it is illegal content, I don't download it nor seed for it.

I wonder if you actually end up making anything in the end? All the while you're seeding you lose your bandwidth and electricity if you keep your machine running especially for that and if you calculate the cost of that to what you make, I don't think you'll cover the expenses.

Most of the content in torrents are illegal like movies,games etc.. so what do you download then?

I know, but you know other types of illegal content (I'm a pirate too, lol) like CP and stuff like that? That are the things I consider illegal.  ;)

Getting paid to distribute pirated content? Not sure that some people will like this...

Maybe you can participate in Onion Tor? I remember they receive bitcoin donation and divided among the contributors...

Yes you can earn bitcoin with Torrent services. But actually why can't uTorrent or Bittorent can't implement feature like that?
I am pretty sure torrent software developers are interested in Bitcoin.

there was also datacoin, that was claiming to move data directly on their blockchain, torrent data

basically data had a value with it, i dunno what happened to it, it was a cool altcoin with a nice feature

They should implement a service, where people put up requests and place Satoshi's in escrow for the seed, if it becomes available. There are people with stuff in archives that they

not seeding, but with some extra monetary motivation, they might just dig up those archived material and place it online for seeding. So when these seeders go online and they

see a list of people requesting something with a big bounty, they might work harder to get it.  ::)

I think theres is no but theres some website that you can earn with your files by uploading it to the PPD site then share it to some one to earn a bitcoin...

Existing private BitTorrent trackers should implement a seed2earn feature. Especially on private trackers, torrent files get left for dead after a few weeks or months. It would be nice if people could deposit an x amount of BTC in their account and offer a reward between 0.0001-0.001BTC per uploaded GB of the movie or game they want to download. If some one is willing to seed an old torrent file of for example 5GB, he then would receive a small reward for it. It's a nice idea.

There seems to be quite a bit of money being made with private trackers. Upload credits are usually sold by the trackers. I'm not too familiar with it, but to my knowledge upload credit is usually not transferable, which is actually a shame in my opinion.

If they were, it probably wouldn't be too far fetched to build a upload credit/BTC exchange.

However, if upload credits were tradable, then it's probably also not too far fetched that this would have an impact on the earnings due to the selling of upload credits by the trackers, so I assume trackers are not incentivized to move in this direction.

If it is still active it will be really cool. I am sure a lot of my friends would want to earn coins by just seeding at high speeds. Seedboxes however will kill it.

Never heard of earning bitcoin by torrent seeding, but that was great if it has any ;D

Noone seems to have heard of coinado?
The user downloads a simple script which creates a bitcoin address to send btc to. User sends bitcoin to pay for their downloads at about $0.05 per GB.
The script on the merchant end would be simple. Dunno if that is open sourced.

The thing originally downloaded over Tor, but now it's just open network https.
Very cheap and fast, while coming from a seeder who seems to have access to a lot of torrents.

As someone already said, accepting money for pirate copies of most things involves a risk.

Torrent operates globally. If the seeder is at Russia and Leecher is at Germany, then what is the risk?

Isn't it just line untorrent where you can pay to download torrents anonymously without the hassle of all the complicated command line thing you have to do in coinado ?

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just saw site. Actually prices are way cheaper. So will give it a try.

Utorrent has eaten a lot of shit for installing the miner in their software. It was removed very soon after the discovery as people never gave permission to install it.

It has damaged their reputation along the insane amount of adds it is now hosting quite badly.

Yes.
You can earn bitcoin.

Its not only about that. People could just hook up torrents to seedboxes thereby seeding those torrents indefinitely. And for a private torrent to be seeded someone has to be downloading, so speed is not always important. Online time also counts significantly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj8di5KkoMw

I think it will be possible in the future to share parts of your harddrive and get paid, without necessarily having to share anything, just free space. For example the Maidsafe project is based around this concept. I cant wait until it goes live so I can start putting my big TB hard drives to use because I don't know what to do with so much free space

Yes ofcourse we can make bitcoin by offering torrent leeching services ,and the other way, make a software that can mine bitcoin and torrenting in the same time like others torrenting software do

Check out Seedbox,GBox,DTS Leech and ByteSized Hosting; they are claimed to all accept bitcoin as payment option.
Regarding the tutorial; you can always find one on youtube./google

vTorrent is working on paying part of the PoS interest to seeders and uploaders. Should help strengthen the torrent network too, stop the leaches. in essence your monetizing torrents.

Look at how many people use torrents per day compared to crypto.

Should be a game changer when it's released.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=889481.0

Seedboxes are usually quite expensive and have a cap on the maximum data out/in. It is less practical than hooking up a raspberry pi to your router. Seeders wouldn't help the torrent much if they are concentrated in the same datacenter or country. I imagine the owner would pay more for geographically dispersed seeds.

But, bitcoin isn't money....it's just data.  It's not legal tender, nor is it fungible, liquid, regulated, or backed by any commodity that is fungible, liquid, or regulated....so....it's open until some precedent is set on those matters.  Right?  I wouldn't pirate for bitcoin though because it's wrong.....micro-payments for content are fair so intellectual property doesn't, or  shouldn't, need to be stolen anymore anyway.  

There are or at least was a few altcoins that had the goal of integrating torrents into their protocol. It would have been like an alternate internet where everything can be downloaded peer to peer and maybe some content creators could sell files (such a movies or short videos) for the altcoin. It would be very efficient to pay very small amounts to watch a video because of the low fees.

You would need to have some sort of uncapped internet access to afford that... and it should be fast, if you are going to share it online. If you are capped, the cost of data

should be less than the amount you earn, or you would be losing money on such a service. Most uncapped internet services would start to throttle you at some stage, if you

are a high volume user.  ???

Most ISP throttle users who use high bandwidth applications like torrenting. Some does offer a no cap guarantee. It can be bypass by using a higher encryption standard. You do need high bandwidth but I believe the main problem is still the quality of speed on your other devices. The more the bandwidth used, the slower the other devices would be.

well http://joystream.co/ is already operated, great to see they have been launched, i'm not use it yet, but i will use it asap.

I dont think there is any way to earn bitcoin by torrent seeding . Hope it comes soon  :)

I don't think this will be possible in the sense of getting profit for just sharing the latest Marvel's movie. But I remember reading about the creator of Popcorn Time (who nows works for Xapo) about a system that can send BTC to creators.

So even if you pirate a movie, the copyright owners would still get some benefit. Perhaps not what they ask...not the $15-20 they charge on iTunes or Play Store but let's say BTC0.0001 per completed download, that's great if you ask me). Same for music, etc.

Not all torrents are uses do distribute 'pirate' and legal software. Some developers use it a backbone of their software distribution network and you can download many fully legal game clients, or applications vi torrent network. I agree, however, that torrents now are mainly associated with piracy, and I don't think we want to go deeper that road as bitcoin community.

there was a project were you are incentivated to run node with tor, there was a small reward of few satoshi, nothing crazy but you cna gain something

I believe that you never heard about Joystream, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1090619.0
That's what you're asking for  ;)

it should be a good idea. I sure can seed with my transmission as I download most of the time.

does stroj.io count?

The concept looks like a positive and good idea, but let's not kid ourselves, the gains that you would get from this would be like spending time on a faucet or something, basically I wouldn't expect too much of anything that lets you make money by doing nothing (in a really passive way) unless you didn't invest hard at first.

Spending time on faucet requires active involvement, which is not the case for torrent seeding.

Yup! your right faucets needs a certain task to be done before earning BTC but I think in this seeding paying thing whom ever seed can gain bitcoin is applying not much of a work because your just letting the seed go on it's own!

true.I use to download a lot using transmission and my isp called me for my suspicious bandwith months ago and so i just donwload 1 movie per day this time.

how much can we earn seeding torrent by the way?

Nothing if you don't have the contacts for it. I know there are some elite seeders that get paid a slight amount for their efforts each month per uploaded 1TB. You have the highest chance by looking what's possible for you in private trackers.

Gave it a read and its a neat idea if you have nothing else to use your bandwidth for.
I'm sure maidsafe and other alts that store data will be more worthy of investment though.

Can anyone tell me how can we earn bitcoin from Torrent Seeding ?

Since this thread was bumped, for anyone that comes across it: Joystream is still working with testnet coins only.

Yea, the legal issues with piracy are going be a huge hill to climb, before they would be able to go live with this. I doubt if this is ever going to go off the

ground. The anti-piracy organizations are going to have a field day with this, once people start accepting payment for seeded content. There is a huge

difference between sharing copyrighted material and sharing it for payment. I would be very careful, if I were you.  ::)

i just know about this site,joystream.co and i think anyone with spare bandwith can use JoyStream and earn Bitcoin, at what ever price they choose, in exchange for seeding to peers.

How to start and how much can you earn by this seeding?
Who have experience with that? Is it safe for using?

I think once Ethereum gets up and running this whole side of things will take of.  ;D

Thanks to joystream that is going to be possible now, but it'll require a lot of people to use it and contribute to paid seeders for it to work successfully. I remember the last time I test it, they allowed testing it on a test net platform.

Some uploaders accept donations in bitcoins. If the torrent is of a great value to you just consider donating. You can earn some coins uploading TV series or other media.

Not sure about torrent seeding , but you can earn a lot of money ( well, not that much, but yes fine amount ) if you have a good internet speed, as many users demand their torrent file being converted into a simple link.

Joystream developers have nothing to do with what content their users seed. It's the same old story... People kill people, guns don't kill people and I am yet to see any weapon maker being sued or fined because they sell weapons that feed wars. If we allow weaponary companies to operate and metal extraction for weapon creation, we must allow the Joystream team to develop their software.

When anti-piracy organizations start having their "field days" with this issue, they should direct themselves to users that misuse the application, not the developers. Just like ISP's shouldn't be sued because users use their connections to download pirated content.

Seeding a Linux distro isn't a crime. Many have official torrents. Maintaining mirrors for distros requires time and money. By outsourcing iso distribution to torrents, distro developers and mirrors are effectively saving money on bandwidth and providing users with something that might even be a faster service for downloading their software. By having paid downloads more users have an incentive to seed while the impact of charging a few bitcents to downloaders to get their distro isn't that much of a hassle (people who don't want to donate can still download through a mirror or any other slower methods).

So, in short: downloader pays a few bitcents, distributed by all seeds and downloads distro at full speed. Seeders get some compensation for their efforts. Developers do not need to deploy servers and https mirrors. Universities who donate their servers for distro downloads can start using torrents to and get some revenue and cut down on bandwidth usage.


This is something very generous, but rarely seen in torrents. People need an incentive, which isn't bad because they're doing something that comes out of their pocket. Like I've read once "seeding in a public tracker is like fucking for virginity"... And we all know seedboxes exist, and you'd have to be crazy to use them without having anything in exchange.


I wish Joystream huge success. I'd be very grateful to receive a few bitcents if someone wanted to download any distro I'm seeding. I'd probably even find a way to do it 24/7 if i got some coins out of it. I'd be very grateful and happy if Joystream caused a shift in this paradigm and a change in the way people think and see content distribution online, too.

I definitely wouldn't like to use this service and have development come to a halt just because people use the software in a way that is perceived to be wrong.


As I've said a few posts back, they're still using testnet.

its possible but only few people who'd give a coin for downloading unless the site become really big like kat or tpb. they do have btc address posted on their page for donation. still i'm not sure people donate though and that is why they are downloading stuff illegally cause they can't afford.

This does not make sense at all. If you cannot afford something, you do not go out to the shops and steal it. It is a criminal offense and you will be fined or jailed for that. These services are the vehicle  for criminal actions and they will be targeted by the authorities.

What will happen if everyone starts downloading copyrighted content from the internet and this industry collapse, due to financial problems? It also has a ripple affect, because legal providers of these products like Netflix or video shops have to close their doors too.

If you cannot afford it, do not steal it. ^hmmmm^ 

I have a few dedicated server that can be used for this purpose but the problem is I do not have the script to automatically do all the things for me.

it always happen. don't expect those Photoshop users to download a GIMP software which is free when they don't know how to use it. They get it on piratebay or KAT. and in their mind, why pay to have photoshop, they can't even afford to pay cheese burger.

I think all the new versions of the Adobe products require a monthly subscription and a connection to the cloud. I guess all the uploaded Photoshop torrents are worthless old versions but it's free.

you can hrie a programmer, and make a php scrypt web based gui, that do all the job for you, it should cost not much, maybe 0.2 btc

i've hired a programmer in the past, maybe he is still active for this kind of job, i can ask for you if you want...

Does anyone have any information about coinado?
It stopped responding sometime over a couple weeks ago (I hadn't checked for months) and now it's 'in maintenance'.
Dammit. He owes me $1.70!!! :)

I have 2 raspberry pi (model 1 and 2) and a 3tb external hard drive laying around. Since I have free electricity I want to make a donation based seedbox

Seedboxes are quite in a high demand in current times where people don't want to download movies, music, games and software via their own IP address. I personally have several seedboxes that I rent out to people for $5 per month for a low spec one, and up to $10 for a much better box with more speed and disk space. You may be able to earn a nice extra bit of money per month.

That is going to depend on the contract payment that you are going to do with adobe products. There are annual and as well as monthly subscription. That is going to be the advantage of subscribing to adobe and paying their product that you are updated with their new products and features. But if you don't have enough money then you are just going to stay with the old version in the torrent but no earnings.

Nope, although it would be an interesting service if ever offered but nothing offers that, Seeding is more of a charity work since you help people "and help yourself on the long term" the problem would be who is going to pay the price if there is something like this.

Seeding is basically you participating and helping other people download the video and getting paid back by others doing the same to you, I don't think there will be people ready to pay in the first place...

this i can believe. so the reason why they just download for free on piratebay because even if they do have the money, they won't be sending any dime, they can't even say thanks to those who upload the files after risking their freedom by uploading the files.

Sooo ...
2 years after joystream was announced and they're still (afaik) using only a testnet????
coinado ran well for a year or so then shut down (no warning, or referral to newer service, afaik).

Did I miss some new service that took over from these?
wtf?

I only ever heard that you can earn from joystream i got the source from youtube, but somehow the content seems not convincing so i never try to do seeding or leeching in joystream but i already installed in my computer, I don't think the software is working because i haven't heard any good feedback yet

Interesting idea,by the way.

Perhaps we could  use VPS for 24/7 seeding. ;D

If there was such a company they would pay peanuts for this.

In several countries torrent have been banned for various websites. Even through VPN service its not possible to enter the pages. Someone starting a service to overcome this issue with bitcoin as payment will easily grab the attention of new users too.

I don't get the point of being paid for seeding torrent files. I mean, there are lots of people out there who are willing to seed for the files they had downloaded, and who are willing to pay for those pirated torrents anyway?

yes, maybe VPS is another solution for us to trying to earn bitcoin by torrent seeding. we can try with cheap vps first and see how much we can earn bitcoin and after we know how much the amount then maybe we can use high end VPS but of course we need to spend more money to buy VPS.


i don't think that people wants to pay for what their download because i see in torrent sites, people is free to download anything they want and they can share any file from that torrents.

Tried with joystream and it is not possible yet. Hope they will launch it for everyone in the near future, but you will definitely get the pay like in PTC websites. It would have been one of the revolutionary ideas if someone could start a service for this.

I agree with you on this because it's sounds revolutionary and anyone who might come up with this would indeed receive the support of the Bitcoin community. Good thinking OP , laudable question.

I never find any site which offers torrent seeding paid service, but I think there will be any day when the technology is mature.

many nation had already banned major torrent sites and google is also working to remove torrent sites from its database and finally we will have torrent free internet. I know 100% efficiency is not attainable but upto some extent it will affect the torrent sites and you should try your concept in general website instead of torrent.

Really curious of how to earned from torrent seeding, because the one that provide this service is joystream, but joystream seems like not operating and i never heard anyone sharing the story that he got payment from joystream or any other torrent seeding payment service, so I still doubt we can earn from torrent seeding

Yes you can earn bitcoin with Torrent services. But actually why can't uTorrent or Bittorent can't implement feature like that?
I am pretty sure torrent software developers are interested in Bitcoin.

I don't think that is possible to earn bitcoin by just torrent seeding because that is easy and i think if ever that they pay, for sure it is lower than the rates of faucet which is not worth it to try. It is better to do freelancing or other type of source of income rather than torrent seeding.

The problem about getting money from seeding torrents, is that nobody is going to pay for the files that has been cracked or pirated, the main idea of torrents is to make the files that you have to pay for, free.

Getting payed for seeding such a files makes the whole torrent conception useless, because as we can see many people just want to volunteer by sharing the downloads with the rest of the torrent community. Nobody is going to give you money for that.

Hm, that's an interesting point, but I can hardly understand the process of such monetization?  If you could explain, then I would start seeding right now))

A few years back, I got a warning from my internet provider for downloading movies in torrent. Ever since that, I have not used torrents for file-sharing. I thought about using a VPN, but that is also not 100% safe.

Such company will not exist since the copyright commission will not overlook at this matter since this will be a form of piracy that will kill the multimedia industry including showbiz, music and arts and also the gaming industry. If this site will exist then it will not stay long in the business since sooner or later the feds are going to close it down.

The last way to share and earn money were megaupload that ended the way we all know, even with kim working into a new system that will use only crypto i dont know how far the sucess of those will be achieved since they are following kim since the megaupload, but well its the best option to those people that wanna monetize their data.

How does the site look now?

First time i know about torrent seeding . No i'm not start now make money with torrent seeding.

i think i have heard about this, and i think there are many platform that can pay you a bitcoin or a cryptocurrency if you can seeding some torrents, i think you can find that on google with some keyword like "torrent seeding task for bitcoin" i think you will find that platform that you want