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Bitfetch (https://bitfetch.com) is a new torrent download service designed to make downloading torrents from your browser a breeze.

Many ISPs have adopted the practice of violating net neutrality and heavily throttling BitTorrent traffic along with every other protocol they deem inappropriate. There have also been many incidents lately in which ISPs have shown a blatant disregard for the privacy of their end users by inspecting their traffic or giving out their information to 3rd parties without due process. There is a way around this.

How it works:

• Add a torrent URL, magnet URI or otherwise upload a torrent file. You can also type something in and search for it.
• When your torrent is added its cost will appear on the right side. Click on Deposit and send a Bitcoin payment to the address listed.
• Once it is done downloading you will be provided with a fast direct HTTPS link to the file(s).

Anonymous
Payments are only accepted in Bitcoin. We do not log IPs or any other data that may be used to identify you. There is no account to register - you are identified by a randomly generated unique token which you can use to access your balance.

All connections to Bitfetch - including downloads - are encrypted by default. Torrents can either be deleted manually by you or automatically after 48 hours (torrents over 10GB in size are deleted after 10 days).

Automatic zipping
You can choose to have torrents zipped so there is only a single file to download.

File selection
Need to download a small file out of a big collection? No problem!

Cost is 0.001 BTC per GB.


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Some additional info:

Connectivity & upload
The server is on a gigabit connection so your torrent will be downloaded at the highest possible speed. Each torrent has a 8 MB/s upload allowance with 20 upload slots. Slow or stalled torrents are the result of low or nonexistent amount of seeds.

Slow downloads from the US
This applies to browser downloads only. As a cost-cutting measure some US ISPs (Comcast, Verizon) will limit the throughput of transatlantic TCP connections. To get around this you can use a multithreaded download manager such as DownThemAll.

Ratio
Ratio is not guaranteed to be 1, in some cases it will be much higher or lower. It all depends on the amount of leechers on the network. Average ratio of all torrents ever downloaded is currently 1.618 (BT total bytes out / BT total bytes in). I am open to suggestions on how to handle ratio for people that use private trackers.

Very nice - super fast downloads for me. Will use this service.

Thanks! Downloads should be even faster now.

We've received feedback that the current price is a tad too high. Moreover, Bitcoin has just hit $22 today.

So,
Cost per GB has been reduced to 0.01 BTC (Minimum of 0.001 BTC)

As a thank you to all our users who enjoyed our service on our first week all active accounts have had their total deposit amount doubled.

do you actively monitor torrents for illegal stuff?

do you put your own morality stamp on what passes through your server?

is it possible to specify particular files from a torrent, instead of getting the whole thing?

is there a limit to the size of the torrent? (eg. a 50mb .torrent file which maps 500gb of data?)

No. With that said, please do not download copyrighted or illegal material.



While it is possible to choose which file to download to your computer (you get a file list when you click on Download), the entire torrent will be downloaded to our servers.



The size limit for the .torrent file is 10MB while the maximum data size is 200GB.

so as long as it's legal*, and not copyrighted, you're fine with it?

*what country is your server in?

Server gets my torrent fast but download to my PC is only 400k/s.

Leet minimal interface.

This thing is slicker than snot!

My first attempt at sending BTC to this service failed - my account didn't get credited at all. Scrat Acorns responded quickly to my email and also gave me a generous amount of extra credit so that I could test the service fully.

As everyone has been saying, the interface is slick. My test (well seeded) torrent was downloaded at 9MB/s. Download from the server to my computer was equally fast. What more could one ask for?

If GLBSE were still alive, I'd be dumping BitcoinTorrentz shares right about now.

hmmm after reading your faq, i just re-read this line of yours here and realised i missed this the first time.

so if i upload a huge .torrent which maps 300gb of data, but i only want one 7kb file from it, do i have to pay for 300gb?

is there any way around that inefficiency?

NL



Since the server is in Europe, connectivity to the States largely depends on your ISP's peering with Europe. Some people get 5 MB/s, some get 400 KB/s. I've gotten 15 MB/s from an EC2 instance in N. Virginia.



Currently no. But I will add something like this (along with many other new features). Stay tuned.

Hey man, I love the design of the website! I'll be sure to try out your service, if/when I have a need for it :)

absolutely awesome page and service

last night transaction was seen right away... today it seems to have to wait for a block (no block yet). bitcoind connectivity bad?

PM or email your TXID and I'll take a look at it.

I think I found a bug that allows me to increase my balance..

deleted, will PM first

It's not a bug, it's a feature! (This message brought to you by Microsoft Inc.)

Your balance should update within 5 seconds when you send bitcoin. If it doesn't try refreshing the page. Socket.io with xhr-polling can be buggy sometimes.

Really great service, super fast downloads!  Recommended.

You should consider adding a feature to browse downloaded torrents, and give us a chance to re-download them, with a fee of course.

Not likely. All files are private and transient.

Impressive, very slick interface! One bit of feedback: It would be great to have a QR code below the deposit address. Makes it easier to use it in combination with smartphone wallets (using the website on a desktop, but paying with a phone).

Thank you for your feedback. QR codes will be included in the next update.

Site is broken?

It's just search that is broken at the moment since I'm relying on a 3rd party service for that.

Everything else should work (and has been working for a while).



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Pushed a big update today that added the following features:

• File selection - you can choose which files to download by clicking on the yellow file icon. You can only do that once and while the torrent is at less than 50%.
• Desktop notifications for Chrome and Safari 6
• Automatic browser downloads - some browsers will require fiddling with settings to autoaccept downloads
• More info - you can hover on the "i" button to get more information such as upload speed or availability
• Tons of bug fixes and improvements

I tested this service and thought on making a small review.

Site looks cool and everything works flawlessly. Big +++ comes from the security and anonymity part.
I tested the service with a Linux Mint download and it was überfast - you can't really download it any faster. I think that the price of this service is priced alright, too.

So, if you got some restrictions on torrent downloads and need to download - for example, linux distro -, I recommend this service.

Great site.

Cost per GB has been reduced to 0.005 BTC.

A couple of additional changes:

• Torrents over 10 GB in size are now deleted after 10 days - or manually if you so choose
• You can hover over the 'x' button to see when a torrent will be deleted

I wonder what ISPs are throttling. It doesn't seem like Cox does, they just forward the copyright violation "lawyers'" emails to all the addresses on your account.

Maybe some people are being throttled and they don't realize it, and would use Bitfetch if they knew.

Here are some popular ISPs that are throttling

USA: Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T
UK: BT, Virgin Media
Germany: DT
France: SFR

Full list (http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs)

Any chance of a way to choose to keep for longer than 10 days?  Often go away for two weeks and a torrent may complete downloading while I'm away, and / or I don't have time to fully download it.

If a torrent stalls at 75% and will never complete, is that just bad luck and the customer needs to accept they've lost a bit of bitcoin?

If you need a torrent to stay up longer drop me an email and I'll remove it's expiration date. I'm open to suggestions here.



Certainly not. Email me and I'll refund it. I'll probably change the refund to work on all incomplete torrents.


User experience means a lot to me, so if you're dissatisfied with my service in any way email me (or post in this thread) and I'll do my best to make it right.

Great.  I've spent quite a few Bitcoins on it so far, and overall I'm satisfied.  It's a good service.  Thanks for the responses to the points I raised.

A couple of other nice-to-have things related to the zip functionality.  One is that on zipping a file, I changed my mind and wanted to download the files individually, but there wasn't a way to do this.  Another is that zip as an archive format has the index at the end, so there's no way with standard tools to access files in a partially downloaded zip while it's still downloading.  If you offered tar as well, then, due to its streamy nature, customers would be able to access files in the tar file so far in their partially downloaded tar file.

I guess I could add a cancel button which would kill the zip process, but this such a rare use case. It doesn't help that zipping is painfully slow and the reason for that is that I've limited it to 30 MB/s so that it doesn't hog down the entire server.



This is a great idea. What other archive/compression formats keep their file list in the beginning and allow opening of partial files?

Answers to emails I get a lot:

Connectivity & upload
The server is on a gigabit connection so your torrent will be downloaded at the highest possible speed. Each torrent has a 8 MB/s upload allowance with 20 upload slots. Slow or stalled torrents are the result of low or nonexistent amount of seeds.

Slow downloads from the US
This applies to browser downloads only. As a cost-cutting measure some US ISPs (Comcast, Verizon) will limit the throughput of transatlantic TCP connections. To get around this you can use a multithreaded download manager such as DownThemAll (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/).

Ratio
Ratio is not guaranteed to be 1, in some cases it will be much higher or lower. It all depends on the amount of leechers on the network. Average ratio of all torrents ever downloaded is currently 1.569 (BT total bytes out / BT total bytes in). I am open to suggestions on how to handle ratio for people that use private trackers.

Have you possibly considered hosting a torrent of the blockchain? I know that it has been done, but having someone to be a dedicated seeder would probably help a great deal.

What do you think?

Did you know about burnbit.com?

It does the opposite of what Bitfetch does.  It turns an http downloadable file into a torrent.

It's been useful to me a number of times when I needed to download a big file over an unreliable connection.

I am seeding Jeff Garzik's blockchain torrent (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=145386.0).
It is also available as a direct download here (https://bitfetch.com/static/bootstrap.7z).



I have seen it. Download managers generally do the trick of downloading big files over HTTP just fine. Corruptions are not an issue since everything is checksummed over noisy channels (ADSL, 3G, etc) and files are almost guaranteed to stay uncorrupted on my server (ECC, verification). SSL also adds an extra integrity check to each packet. My service is for people who can't or don't want to run a torrent client.

hello,

i just love your service ;)
just two suggestions:
 - dropbox integration (just place torrents in one dir and let it download with bitfetch)
 - dropbox: place completed files in dropbox


regards
flower

Thanks!

I think that Dropbox integration goes against the privacy oriented nature of this service. Dropbox API access is not open to everyone - you have to apply for it and get approved. I also don't see the point of watching a dropbox directory for .torrent files, since you can upload them to bitfetch just by clicking a button and they are typically <50kb anyway. Magnet links beat all other methods for convenience though, all it takes is a copy/paste.

I will definitely be adding multiple file upload support (ctrl + clicking multiple files) for browsers that support it.

ok, you're right regarding dropbox integration.

what about an api instead?

if often use your site from work to add new torrents, and i would love if my homeserver would download them after bitfetch has finished them (so i can use them as soon as i get home).

You can already do that. Click on Settings (top right) and enable Automatic Browser Downloads.

It will work on Chrome (up to 2 files, any more than that and it will popup 'This website is attempting to download multiple files. Allow? Yes/No' to which you click Yes) while Firefox/IE/Safari will require changing of the default download action in the browser settings.

my home server does not have an ui ;)
but anyway: love your service

Dammit Bitcoin, where are you going?

Cost per GB has been reduced to 0.003 BTC.

ha, awesome... about 20 minutes before I submitted a job.

Thanks for a great great service, btw. It's pretty much perfect.

Mole is right, BF is damn near perfect.

Scrat deserves all the nice passive income it generates; thanks again for making such a nice, useful thing for us!   :-*

Thank you both!

Featured on Torrentfreak: http://torrentfreak.com/bitfetch-debuts-bitcoin-powered-anonymous-bittorrent-downloads-130330/ (http://torrentfreak.com/bitfetch-debuts-bitcoin-powered-anonymous-bittorrent-downloads-130330/)

Recent changes:

• Search removed; apparently getting quality search results is serious business
• Refund will work on all uncomplete torrents, no matter their percentage or number of seeds
• You can now add SHA1 hashes of torrents
• Price dropped to 0.001 BTC / GB

Are you also gonna raise prices with bitcoin value falling :/

I used Bitfetch yesterday and was very impressed with it. I was actually trying to find it via Google, but couldn't.

I think you might want to add some <meta> tags and verbatim text that at least says "bitcoin torrent download", or something like that. I'm sure it'd come up in the rankings pretty quickly.

Anyways, great job on the site :-).

I will be converting balances to gigabytes to remedy this.



Thanks. Indeed, I haven't done any SEO yet.

good decisions!

I draw my hat for simplifying an already stunningly simple service!

Just started my first download... very reasonable price that makes sense to use it... cheers!

However I have an improvement suggestion:  I added a torrent to see how much it would cost, but it did not tell me, just the size.  Also it got rid of the price so I had to open an incognito window and do math (math is hard :) ).  It would have been much nicer if it would show me what I needed to deposit to download it, especially now that I have a balance.

Other than that:  great UI!

You're right, since converting this to bytes was kind of an afterthought. I will add some sort of indicator for the amount of bitcoins you need to start a torrent.

REVIEW:

After using the system for a full 'cycle' I can say that I am SUPER IMPRESSED.

Not only is the system top notch in terms of usability and visual niceties, it WORKS.   It is simple and it is clear.   They also don't do anything stupid.  For example I started a download from my office then copied the ZIPed URL to my server at home and downloaded the result from there.

I will most certainly be using this service again and can't sing enough praise. 

Downloads are hanging right now. Tried with direct .torrent links and magnet links. :-\

EDIT: 3 out of 4 torrents have downloaded now; still waiting on the fourth one to start. Maybe running out of disk space?

I miss the search feature. It was really giving me good results and made life easier.

Torrent client was stuck at 100% cpu.



I'll see what I can do.

i have had decent luck with http://www.scrapetorrent.com/

I use metasearch.torrentproject.com with great satisfaction.

However, it's about only having to go to one site (bitfetch) with nifty easy-to-use interface and no-crap search feature.

Just wanted to say that I have used the service again and it worked flawlessly!

Moving to a new server.

There will be some downtime as DNS changes propagate.

Server move is finished.

If you were affected by this downtime PM or email me and I'll credit your account.

I really do hate hosting providers sometimes.

I confirm that all my stuff looks like it moved correctly.

What was the reason for the move?  Did they get upset about the nature of the service?

Nothing of the sort. The new server is more powerful and has 4 times the disk space.

Just noticed I hadn't praised your service yet! You saved my life at least 5 times so far ;)

As my balance was just short 4MB of the file I wanted to download and that I am not addicted to ;), I flipped over another $5, realizing that this bought me 25GB. Nice. :) Your service is most likely a niche product but for people that get discriminated like me, it is just great. Touching torrents kills all internet traffic for a minute totally reproducible.

How is your stance on sharing one account? Somebody posted a link on facebook. Sure, long time you will not like that but to get the word out, maybe? Public sharing would be easy to keep under control by allowing to send the coins back again (full wallet)

friend just got €950 fine for bittorrenting some shit.

time to introduce him to bitfetch.

problem is: site doesn't seem to work: says "0% fetching magnet metadata" on different magnet urls.

EDIT: it might've been 2 bad magnets

Uhm … wtf?? I had some whatnot GB left in my account and now I went there and it says "BALANCE0.0 KB"? I wanted to check for you but apparently I deleted a cookie. I should have the link somewhere though. Maybe optional login wouldn't be a bad idea. Cookies are something people tend to delete from time to time.

Bookmark the link with your token. Easy. :)

I still have the cookie. How do I get the token?

Click the "Deposit" button and save the link with "token=<character string>" at the end. I just keep it bookmarked for whenever my cookies disappear.

I thought I did that but right now I don't find it. I will. Eventually. If not, it's not the end of the world neither.

Krak are you the new owner of bitfetch? Scrat Acorns said he sold bitfetch and I kind of like to know who I'm dealing with when I trust them with my money. As the sums at stake are low or at least can be kept low, I don't necessarily need to know who the owner is but still I prefer to know who I'm dealing with.

Nah, I'm not affiliated with the site at all; just a happy customer. Where did he say that he sold it?

In a pm. I wasn't sure if he said it in the thread, so now I'm a bit confused why he makes it a secret here and tells me he sold there.

Not a secret. I was waiting for the new owner to post here, which he will do shortly.

Don't know wether I like this news. New owner will have to prove he can run the service as smoothly as you have. A bit sad. Hope you got an adequate price.

He has been running it for the past 40 days.

Yeah, but will he make frequent improvements as you have? I doubt it if only for one reason: the service is close to perfect as it is now.

Hello everyone, I am the new owner of bitfetch.

FTR, Scrat was willing to sell and I took the opportunity as a small user to keep the site alive and competitive in the future. Like you say molecular, the site is close to perfect.

Cost is now 0.001 BTC per GB

Why? During the last 40 days the site revenue was 7BTC. More than enough to cover the server expenses for the next 6 months!

I want the offer to stay attractive and I am listening to your feedbacks.

Gizmo > The idea of a full wallet is a good idea. Thanks for the feedback. However seeing Instawallet issues, I think the risk is too high.

molecular > I have also seen bad magnets not working, you can try to delete the end of the magnets dirname, sometimes it will work. Most do work.

I have also received the following requests from a heavy user:


Thank you for your feedback. Obviously the main competitor of bitfetch are seedboxing services like feral (+setup an https access for your files).

The main advantage of bitfetch being that I do not require your email. Bitcoin is not linked to your personal identity and your privacy is respected.

So I dont think we will open an email contact option.

Dont hesitate to PM me with your [requests]. And thanks again to the founder  : Scrat Acorns

Confirming this.

Hey man. What took so long to inform us of the change in ownership? (Not that I care much as long as the service works nicely).

I for one welcome our new service provider.

The king is dead! Hail to the king!

:)

Welcome and thanks for reducing the price, but why not be a bit more aggressive? Grant your users a 100% referral bonus for example. This effectively also halfs the price/profit but gets you known. I found the price very well before already and I would rather want to see your service grow fast. So far, nobody knows about it. You can still lower your price when the competition wakes up.

Just because not having an email address distinguishes you from others, doesn't mean optionally having one wouldn't improve your service. Sure, people that download movies for example, should not put in their verified gmail address if they live in countries that honor copyright, but having that feature would still be nice. Memorizable credentials to recover an account would also be nice. Why not mung my credentials into a secondary token? You could hash login+password client-side. This would not lead to you having a way to contact me, but it would be much more transportable and even safer in case my computer is lost. My password safe would hold the login and not my bookmarks.

I'm still quite happy with the site.

2 things that had been better before:

• built-in search was great
• "fetching metadata" consistently takes quite long (20-40 seconds?), this use to be a lot faster (<10 seconds)

I almost forgot this site existed, lol.

Extremely Impressive! And great prices.

I have to conclude: new owner not as responsive as previous owner. Not complaining, though.

I have already addressed this.



I've not noticed DHT discovery taking more than it previously did. It depends on the amount of seeds and size of the torrent.

can you point me to that?

All I found was this:


Is that still applicable?

I take it you still help out the new owner?

I don't want to sound too negative: Those issues I have are minor and the site is great! I use it exclusively for all my torrent needs. Let me thank you and the new owner once more at this point for a great service.

I like the way the site works, and I'm in the middle of my first test under the new ownership which seems to be working well.

But dude, you gotta advertize if you want the site to survive.  Look into placing an ad on those "daily Bitcoin faucet" sites if you want some cheap visibility.  Don't let the site die due to lack of traffic like BitcoinTorrentz did (the inspiration for Bitfetch in the first place, if I'm not mistaken)

Streaming does not seem to work? Does it work for anybody else? Using VLC player. I think it worked before with the "s" from "https" removed but now it does not.

Hello everyone, here are some good news for our users : Rate is now 0.0005 BTC per GB

2 reasons:
-btc price increase
-free bandwidth upgrade from the provider

Enjoy the updated rate!

Ricochet -> you're right, site could have more traffic with some ads, but the goal here with bitfetch is more about the service than everything else.

Saw the ad on CoinAd, already used it to download Breaking Bad and I'm currently downloading some other series.

Great site, you should consider showing some stats, stats are always good  ;)

Used it today, very very impressed! Will be using this in the future for sure  :)
may I add, instant transaction, super fast downloads and just awesome general feel to it. Well done!

Very nice. I'm not into pirate content, however I still get screwed by my ISP when I download a Linux ISO or similar. This can be handy. Bookmarked

My shit of an ISP (http://vtr.com/index.html) put fibre to the home and installed a router that can't handle when my browser restores 4 tabs at once. Using torrents kills all my internet. Wonder how much nagging it takes to get a better router. I actually thought that the tabs problem was a side effect of them penalizing torrents but a friend now told me that he got his router replaced after 100 calls.

Don't you mean modem?

Probably both, they now come together into one equipment.

Noob question ---> Is there anything we can do if there aren't any seeds and or leeches? There are some things I want but only have like 1 or 2 seeds with no peers

Downloaded 2.18 GB in about 5 minutes. Mother of god.

Which ISP are you using and are you in America?

I meant Bitfetch downloaded a torrent at that speed, after that I downloaded from the site at 1.8 MB/s (my max speed).
I'm from Portugal and my ISP is meo.

screw them, just buy a router yourself?

I've seen even faster speeds on well-seeded torrents. It's nice, especiall when you have a file in a "streamable" format, you can start watching right away via http.

https-certificate expired, please renew!

I would bet my balance vanished again :/ How else could I reach exactly 0 by using it up? Does it expire after a month of inactivity? Not amused.

Did you use your token link to log back in? It's probably not in your cache anymore after a month.

Well, yeah, most likely that is the problem and I addressed it before. Why not optionally let me log in with something my password store would remember for me? Most likely I have the bookmark somewhere, too but optional login would help others from getting too mad at bitfetch, too.

Would it show in your history?

Yeah, it was in my history and I wasn't really worried it would be gone for good but I wanted to make a point as bitfetch does not force me to the actual url. instawallet did it better I guess. I went to instawallet, it would forward me to instawallet/w/somerandomid and now if I hit bookmark, I would not bookmark instawallet but instawallet/w/somerandomid.

I expect bitfetch to run into the same issues instawallet (willingly as I would guess) ran into.

Rate was last changed around Sept 13.  Since then the value of bitcoin has gone from $150 to $850.  How about changing it?

Quick! Change the rate now! Tomorrow there might be no reason to do so anymore ;)

No, seriously, I would find it fair to deduct balances in $$ as Ƀ is to volatile. Ƀ prices have to be adjusted every day else.

so, whoever is running this site now?

Site's great for fast torrents, but I sent 0.8 BTC in by accident the other day (address book malfunction). Who's running the site now? They're not answering their email ::)

Did you check how many PB you can download now?

Yeah. Got about 1.6 Tb ...heh. At least I'll never run outta porn.

Awesome service, but you might want to consider adjusting the price again, make it update automatically with bitcoinaverage.com (https://bitcoinaverage.com/) API or similar.

Many businesses use bitcoin as a currency where they should use it as a protocol only. Almost all change to $$ at some point. If you have liabilities to return unused credits, you will not want to have received a bitcoin but rather the $16 it was worth last year.
And yeah, the more users you have to convert from one policy to the other, the harder it is. Also magic money that multiplies itself by the service having to lower the price is bad as the old users will not have any incentive to send more money there. 1.6TB of porn he said? Maybe soon it's 1.6PB. Then he can publicly share his link and nobody will ever pay for the service again cause they all live off his balance. As people pay, can you really forbid to share the link?

Deposits are instantly converted to GB, the site doesn't store BTC, it only stores the amount of GB you have purchased.
If you "deposit" 1 BTC to your account now, you'll have 2,000 GB to use, 10 years from now you'll still have 2,000 GB to use (if you don't download anything of course).

Yeah, right. Still it's priced in Bitcoin as if Bitcoin was a currency. Lol.

still not a valid https-certificate.

If the only payment method is BTC, why would it be priced in something else?

Because I want to be sure it's $x per GB when I take a decision to use the service without having to check what it is today. I mean you can take gold or Euro or Argentinian Pesos. All these are stable units of account but bitcoin is just too volatile, which already forced the service to change its price how many times?

Also: bitfetch.com

This website just froze when I tried to start two torrents.  The xhr-polling web request is taking 20 seconds.

It's concerning that there is no one to talk to about this site. The guy who started this thread isn't responding to PMs and no one is answering their admin@ email.

Don't forget he hasn't held up his part of his giveaway.

Are there any competitors?

Is it working for other people?  For me it just downloaded half of a file and then stopped.

I accidentally sent 0.8 BTC there a few weeks ago and haven't had any response on returns. The https cert is expired.

RE: is it working?

No. It just crashed while I was trying to zip something.

Take that back. It suddenly started and finished. I d/l'd a pretty large torrent about 4 hours ago and it worked.

Anyone know what a Pending download is?

I don't even have torrent stats (Seeds/Peers).  I would assume this to mean that the torrent has been downloaded and 'submitted' to the their backend torrent system, but it is not downloading for some reason.

No idea. But it won't read magnet links. It looks like it's down.

I can't help thinking this is my fault for accidentally sending them those coins. They won't respond to emails. They won't give the coins back. 0.8 BTC was probably like a year's income for the site and now they're going to bail with it.

Lol. Bitcoin is evil. When you made 'nuff money with your business, you close shop. Heard that about a good restaurant that accepted bitcoin for a year, too  ;D

If .8 BTC is enough cause for an operator to quit the game, we're in a lot more trouble than I thought lol. I can't seriously believe that whoever bought and owns this site now would have paid for it just to trash it like that. Maybe they're dead or something.

Bitcoiners seem to die often.

Dangerous business. Plus after you die you get reborn as a 17-year-old Chinese kid.

I'm still waiting for my Bitcoinica money.

I guess that's the most effective way to keep your hands strong. :D

Hehe. I'm gonna have a Popeye forearm for that little bitch if I ever cross his path. And does wanting to tie up Tihan Seale and take a piss on him make me gay? I hope not.

It's always good to have at least one all-out grudge. Takes the pressure off to get agitated about the merely annoying, e.g. bitfetch going down. 0.8 BTC? That's like a decent cable package if I lived in the States. I'm mostly pissed that I need to find a new way to watch HBO.

Is the website owned by the person listed on the Whois?  If so, they are French and a recent college graduate (and possibly unemployed in which case they should have lots of time).  And you can look them up on linked-in. 

I'm guessing it is worth their time to keep the website up and running. 

Looks like it is back up!

OP logged in today.
SSL certificate is still expired.

very interesting concept

There seems to be a problem with bitcoind.

Address generation doesn't work and thus deposits are not working.  Typically they're slow to fix things, but I'm hoping it will be fixed within a week or two.

dpositing is broken. cannot top up balance ;(

https://i.imgur.com/uFUlQUx.png (https://i.imgur.com/uFUlQUx.png)

Tried a very small deposit to an 50 day old address.  Didn't work.

damn... first bitcointorrentz.com now bitfetch.com?

sucks.

I need such service!

any alternatives?

I wish.

Seed boxes are the alternative.

Any good one that accepts Bitcoin?

I'm not an expert.  Started using Ultraseedbox.  Accepts bitcoin. Requires email address.  Seems pretty good.  I accidentally left my torrents running and went over bandwidth - so we'll see how that goes.  It's cheaper than bitfetch if you are doing lots of downloading (40 gb/month or more).  Bitfetch was a better service for people who only need say 10 GB/month.

it's rather old, but here's a list of seedboxes accepting bitcoin

http://seedboxgui.de/guides/seedbox-providers-accept-bitcoin/

Doesn't seem to me those make sense for casual usage.

Bitfetch was ideal for me. I'd download 500MB to 4 Gigs or so once every 2 weeks on average. Doesn't make sense to buy any monthly planned stuff for that.

I think I might try a shared seedbox from http://yourseedbox.com/page/shared_seedbox for €1,85 + VAT per month.

I read somewhere they take bitcoin (haven't made it to the checkout yet).

Oh my god, I'm in the process of trying yourseedbox.com seedserver.

What a major fucking hassle.

Sorry to vent here, but it this just points out how much a service like bitfetch is needed.

Took me about 90 minutes to go through all of this crap:

• to buy 1.89€ shared seebox (turns out to be €2,80 in the end), I have to fill out a form, pay btc via bitpay, email support about failed bitpay payment (they reacted quickly).

Not to mention having to register an email address somewhere.

• put up with 2 different quite crappy control panels (at least they seem to work, though)
• find out that a torrent (with many seeds) I managed to start to download wouldn't download (hangs at "connecting peers" for 10 minutes)
  
• find out (they said this before I admit) that I can only dl 2 torrents simultaneously.
  
• find out that my type of control panel (torrentflux) doesn't support magnet urls at all
• click "convert to torrentcloud" control panel so I can use magnet urls
• read message that "high priority conversion within 24 hours cost €30", low priority is free, but takes up to a week (best effort)

what the hell?!?

I wonder how much time and money I will have spent until I successfully downloaded something.

Compare to bitfetch:

• top up account by sending BTC to a bitcoin address
• paste magent/torrent url

EDIT: I came down a bit from my rage. They switched me to torrentcloud very quickly (support seems to be top-notch so far). That is a way better interface and I can actually download stuff now.

I still uphold that we need a bitfetch-style service, though ;-)

use put.io instead. accepting bitcoin as well, and easy as pie to use!

Not going to pay more than my Netflix subscription to pirate a couple of movies.

I don't know what happened, but it used to be an excellent service. I hope it gets back, if not then some alternative is badly needed.

I wish it would get back because the owner has made the right choices. It was doing what it was supposed to and it was doing it very well. I also tried some old funding address without any luck (probably bitcoind died?). Fetching still works fine.

:D I have no idea how the premium service could still take up to 24 hours. They must set the waiting period server-side with a RNG, or else they send all the work over to a single RPi.

TorrentFlux isn't too shabby, though. The NG fork handles magnet links through Mainline or Transmission. Maybe someone can be found on the forum who'd be willing to throw it up for us.

works for me, thanks.

not nearly as nice a gui as bitfetch and billing is time-based instead of volume based. Also requires registering with email (or does it?).

I just joined http://yourseedbox.com/ which has a cheap plan for 1.89 Euros / month.  Seems a bit slow, but ok.  Cheaper than the 8 Euros that I paid at Ultraseedbox (which was faster).  Both accept bitcoin.  Require email address.

I've reached a functional form of a "replacement" as of now and would like some feedback while working on a final version. For the time being downloads are free but subject to change.

https://untorrent.me/

Known issues:

• Leave the page, download is goneSave the link that is provided and you can come back to finish
• Add a torrent that has been added already, can't download the zip
• Click the add button twice, same as above, can't download the zip

The known issues will be fixed soon^tm, just looking for additional feedback on style, potential pricing, speed of download, etc. while I work.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/version-1-sucks-but-ship-it-anyway/

https://i.imgur.com/A8MIExY.jpg

Awesome.

some feedback:

• I was getting download speeds > 10MB/s when downloading back to me, but the download never finished (it was stopping at random points)
  
• magnet urls seems to work in the way that the name gets displayed but they don't seem to download
• when trying to add some other file after refresh I kept getting "failed to add torrent", maybe you were changing something

http://brillianceinsight.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/card-2-24-2014-1.jpg

thank you!

will check it out soon enough.

Alright who had to "test" it by downloading an episode of Futurama?

Fast, slick, and just in time for Broadchurch S02E01...   8)

OMG U R MUH HEEEEEEROOOO!!!   :o

Can u make plz accept Monero, for privacy?

I found why the downloads were stalling on you, looks like you tried to download 4 different versions of broadchurch but they all hung... your latest should have just resumed.

The server has a 1TB drive but the folder where Transmission was saving the torrents was limited to 20GB so it filled up quickly and paused all the torrents.


Do you have a link to the Monero thread? However to start things of I was probably going to only accept bitcoin, unless of course there is enough demand for others.

Sorry, got impatient and finally used a private tracker instead.  I'm just a tiny little bit eager to see the season premier.   ;D

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.0

is the Monero thread.  TheKoziTwo is working on releasing his payment gateway (used at Poloniex, etc).

Yea that particular one you had open last, was downloading at 10kbps it had only a handful of peers.


I'll take a look at Monero shortly, currently scrolling through Reddit then going to fix a few issues with the website.

There are now links that can be saved to come back and check the status of a download later

Great, the speed anyway. I only get 1MB/s if I'm lucky. As for the downloads stopping I have not had that issue myself, could you try again with some of the more recent changes to see if it still happens.

None of my tests included magnets, however currently it seems to exhibit the behavior you mention but if you click the status link then you can see the progress. Something to work on...


Hmm... have not experienced that yet either, does it still occur? If so is it reproducible by a specific torrent or procedure? I might have been making changes and you simply had bad luck ;)

Perhaps we should spin off into a new thread ;)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=914631.0

https://bitport.io/ they accept bitcoins and do the same job - very slick I think.

Free for 2gb and no https.

nice did not know about them

Looks like they're gone for good now. :/

September 2014 deposits stopped
October 2014 SSL certificate expired
February 2015 ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

just tried the service...

there was not enough funds available so I added some when I started the download.

there is now 1 confirmation.

Not sure how many confirmations you'll be waiting for, but don't you think 1 would be sufficient?

I've been busy with school so the system isn't automated yet. I just manually upped the balance.

Thanks for using the service.

Thanks a bunch!

Great service!

I remember you made a thread for it, no? I can't seem to find it.

Yep, it's over at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=914631.0

For those that are still following this thread...

https://untorrent.me
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=914631.0

Bitfetch was a cool service, I used it all the time. Great to see UnTorrent.Me stepping up as a successor!

As there has been a bit of discussion around the various alternatives, allow me to also pitch my service: Coinado provides anonymous remote torrenting via a Tor hidden service. Read the announcement (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=84.0) for more details. Cheers!

Via tor? Not the best way to achieve fast downloads...

True, although you might be surprised, Tor isn't the trickle of bandwidth it was in the past. But the real goal here is not speed, but privacy. A VPN's "no log policy" is all good and well, but there is always the risk, that in some future crack down on filesharing via VPN those businesses will just be run by law enforcement for a while, logging whatever they need to build a massive case against a bunch of people. It might be a small risk, but Coinado is torrenting for the paranoid. ;-)

Considering that it has already been revealed that the NSA is actively looking into Tor (and they have some of their own exit nodes IIRC) - I'd be more inclined to think a seedbox created from scratch on a VPS in a grey jurisdiction would be the best. Next best would be in countries with little need to comply with DCMA (ie. few treaties) such as eastern Europe.

Secondly, it depends on where the VPN's are actually located - can't build a case on evidence that hasn't been legally obtained. You'd need a warrant first to get the logs and no unauthorized surveillance would stand a chance in court.

Is it possible something broke? Seems all downloads stop at 0.x%.

HD full?

Wrong forum thread?

Anyway yea, that's probably the cause. I'll free up some space after class, should be less than an hour.


Edit: Yep, the disk was full. I just purged a bunch of old BluRays and Games.

yeah, wrong thread. LOL. thanks for being alert in this thread, too ;)