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Title: 2013-01-10 torrentfreak.com - Bombing BitTorrent and File-Sharing Websites Back
Post by: julz on January 11, 2013, 04:22:53 AM
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Bombing BitTorrent and File-Sharing Websites Back to the Stone Age


2013-01-10

http://torrentfreak.com/bombing-bittorrent-and-file-sharing-websites-back-to-the-stone-age-130110/

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Founded in late 2004, TorrentBytes has its next server bill due at the end of January but thanks to a PayPal withdrawal has no way to collect money from users to pay it. Not even Bitcoins will work according to an admin.

“Bitcoin is not an option. We can pay next to nothing with it and there seems to be no ‘certain’ way to convert it to something we can use,” he says.
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Title: Re: 2013-01-10 torrentfreak.com - Bombing BitTorrent and File-Sharing Websites Back
Post by: sunnankar on January 11, 2013, 05:38:34 AM
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“Bitcoin is not an option. We can pay next to nothing with it and there seems to be no ‘certain’ way to convert it to something we can use,” he says.
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IceServers (http://www.howtovanish.com/iceservers), based in Iceland!, accepts bitcoins for shared and dedicated servers. Looks like the admin is looking for ways to fail.


Title: Re: 2013-01-10 torrentfreak.com - Bombing BitTorrent and File-Sharing Websites Back
Post by: FreeMoney on January 11, 2013, 06:39:56 PM
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“Bitcoin is not an option. We can pay next to nothing with it and there seems to be no ‘certain’ way to convert it to something we can use,” he says.
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IceServers (http://www.howtovanish.com/iceservers), based in Iceland!, accepts bitcoins for shared and dedicated servers. Looks like the admin is looking for ways to fail.

Seals uses Orange, been quite good for a year.

Seals manages to pay all the bills with bitcoins. On the rare occasion that dollars are needed, those are available for bitcoins too.

By 'certain' he must mean promised by someone currently powerful.