Engineering
BitTorrent has a New Website!

The BitTorrent team is proud to unveil our new website, which is now available at https://www.bittorrent.com. Several months in the making, our goal was to make big improvements in site performance and stability. Now the site is faster to load, making it more efficient to find and download our trusted mobile and desktop torrent clients…

2020/05/08

Announcing Altruistic Mode

We’re in the process of rolling out a new feature of for our BitTorrent and uTorrent clients: Altruistic Mode. This is a feature for users who want to make sure that they upload more than they download and are okay with the tradeoff that their download might never complete. Because this feature has some subtle…

2016/09/27

A Word on the OS X Malware Attack

In our connected world, no one is safe from malware. All types of software are constantly under attack, making security a major issue for software developers everywhere, every day. This week, the first ransomware on Mac was discovered in a release by the Transmission team. It’s understandable that this has made news, particularly given that…

2016/03/11

How BitTorrent finds torrents

When you click a magnet link on a website to get a torrent, it automagically opens a torrent file with a list of files you can download. Ever wonder how uTorrent finds that file in the big mess of the peer to peer internet? You can now see how this works  with a new visualization…

2015/10/29

Bleep update: Forward Secrecy for Offline Messages

Our engineers have recently updated the Bleep core engine to address offline forward secrecy. We’ve discussed forward secrecy before, but this is a major overhaul to the fundamental way we package and transmit messages. It also introduces something that no one else has figured out how to do (as far as we know): providing forward…

2015/08/11

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