Btw 2 years of this blockchain existing is coming up very soon...

Block 1 Time:   2014-12-14 00:27:13

Hard fork guess 31 December, 2016 03:30 AM

If what you were saying was true then Netflix wouldn't exist. People pay for what they want, and if they can't find it legally then they'll find it through other methods and pay if necessary.

Regardless, have you seen the past few pages of this discussion? You're sitting here 2 weeks after what.cd--the largest music tracker on the planet got shuttered plus when a number of other raids have occurred.

Go back and read some of my posts where I've discussed what benefits an incentivized model could bring (i.e. making sure older content is still shared)

As for legal issues, vTorrent is just software like BitTorrent. The end user decides how they use it.

Because torrents aren't "free"; bandwidth is not "free".
There has also been a sustained attempt at shutting down torrent-related websites over the past decade; which has increased significantly in the past few weeks.

There are also torrent trackers and communities that have been hit by legal consequences; without sustained communities torrents will die off (never entirely, but the idea of BitTorrent being "content rich" could easily fade away after some time).

vTorrent is best described as a project that will incentivize the torrent network.

Yes, that is technically true I suppose.

That's the vtorrent dev. You're already running software that he's written so the "safe to use" question is a bit misguided.

I'll add 1000 to the guessing pool--so the total should be 1101. 101 coming from coins101 and 1000 coming from me.

Coins101 can choose the winner.

It also very much depends how you define "users"

Sure, bitcoin because its so valuable has "users".

Anonymous cryptocurrency #632? Not so much, because there is no real purpose besides speculation.

Storage based coins may have real users, however this is still very, very, very, very limited in scope.

Bittorrent >< Cryptocurrency will likely bring on a huge wave of new users into the ecosystem; least of all because the price of entry will be so low. You won't need a Chinese mining farm or a stack of sick 1337 graphics card. The only price to play the game will be to have bandwidth. There are numerous places on earth where gigabit internet is horrendously cheap and the minimum salary is ridiculously not worth it.

Should make for an interesting situation.

That's basically because people aren't willing to sell the coin at current prices. There seems to be a lot of demand that is steadily increasing, but most people around here probably simply don't want to hawk their coins off at low prices. This is a long-term bet and not a short-term bet like most of the altcoins around.

If you're in to VTR its because you likely believe in the concept of torrents/cryptocurrency and that it will do well once it hits.

Also another note that Cryptoguru only ever displays nodes on a certain port which is why it only shows 5 or so active connections out of 22+

change
addnode=x.x.x.x:1234

to
addnode=x.x.x.x


To be honest, as much as its not ideal that this isn't open to more novice technical levels that is where crypto is at right now. Perhaps with more wallet upgrades in the near future things will improve greatly.

I have 22 nodes connected, a record I believe.

Remove the ports from all the nodes.  Just put it addresses.

Also another note is that unless you have set windows explorer/mac os X to display ALL FILE EXTENSIONS then everything anyone says here is pretty much a moot point.

i.e. if you open your folder where the vtorrent program is and it just says "vtorrent" and not "vtorrent.exe" you're probably doing things wrong.

You also need to make sure that no firewall is blocking the client from working (that includes your router and not just your operating system)

Also the vtorrent.conf file cannot be a word document; you have to be able to open in notepad and see clear formatting. If you've made the document in anything like MS Word etc then it won't work unless you save it in a specific way.

EDIT: Food for thought; can dev please make available a .conf file with peers (because he is the trusted party here) so that people can download it, shove it where it needs to go and get it running

Hey Dev,
When you get a chance can you please issue an "official" bootstrap?

I don't mind to do it, but because I'm just a user people won't trust it.

Thanks.

~32 BTC (~$24000) volume on Bittrex within last 24 hours
~800K VTR volume

8th largest market on Bittrex

Wow my client has 18 connections.

Highest I've seen.

If I recall correctly, like 100 years or some ridiculous number. Not anytime soon at least.