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August 14, 2015, 03:43:40 PM
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BitTorrent, Inc., the company behind the original BitTorrent client and uTorrent, has removed their hidden Bitcoin miner in the latest version of uTorrent. The update, version 3.4.3, was released on April 8th, exactly one month after the initial statement was released on the uTorrent blog.

http://www.coinbuzz.com/2015/04/15/utorrent-removes-hidden-bitcoin-miner/
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August 14, 2015, 03:56:57 PM
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BitTorrent, Inc., the company behind the original BitTorrent client and uTorrent, has removed their hidden Bitcoin miner in the latest version of uTorrent. The update, version 3.4.3, was released on April 8th, exactly one month after the initial statement was released on the uTorrent blog.

http://www.coinbuzz.com/2015/04/15/utorrent-removes-hidden-bitcoin-miner/


It's old and it's not like it does matter anyway , no ?
They have shitload (millions) of users around the world so I'am pretty sure they already did some decent amount of money already .

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August 14, 2015, 04:04:24 PM
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BitTorrent, Inc., the company behind the original BitTorrent client and uTorrent, has removed their hidden Bitcoin miner in the latest version of uTorrent. The update, version 3.4.3, was released on April 8th, exactly one month after the initial statement was released on the uTorrent blog.

http://www.coinbuzz.com/2015/04/15/utorrent-removes-hidden-bitcoin-miner/


It's old and it's not like it does matter anyway , no ?
They have shitload (millions) of users around the world so I'am pretty sure they already did some decent amount of money already .

maybe is old but i didnt notice it untill now :S i have lucky that i didnt use that client version, btw if this is true as im reading i dont like it, i will not use utorrent client anymore, even if they remove it already.
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