The Recovery Phrase is a list of 12 words that are your secret combination that is used to generate both the public and private key of your account. With this phrase, you can import your wallet into any BitTorrent product on a different device. If you lose this phrase, you might lose access to this…
BitTorrent Speed is enabled by default for all μTorrent users. Yes, you can turn off Speed to stop spending the BTT in your account. To do that, simply turn “Speed Increase” toggle into the “Off” state. Your ability to download won’t be impacted, but there will be no increase in speed.
A public key is your Wallet’s public address. It is tied to your private key. Since all public keys are public, knowing a public key allows anyone to inspect the history of transactions on the chain or send coins or tokens to its owner.
The Wallet’s Private Key, is the private key tied to the Wallet, it is how you show ownership of the wallet. This must be kept strictly secret; anyone who has this key controls all funds stored on the blockchain by the wallet.
Speed does not change your overall torrenting experience. Speed allows you to spend in-app BTT to increase your download speeds.
A password which serves to locally decrypt a private key stored on a user’s disk. The password should be kept in secret because anyone who gains access to the device can retrieve the private key and steal the wallet’s funds.
A server that helps peers find each other. A tracker maintains information about each torrent client using each torrent, and coordinates the transfer of files among users; it does not have a copy of the file being shared, and it does not host torrents.
Antivirus companies are going beyond detecting viruses and malware and into categories of “potentially unwanted programs” they feel you may not want even though they aren’t dangerous. Note that it is not our clients themselves that are flagged under either category, but occasionally our partner install offers that are flagged in this “potentially unwanted program”…
A small file with the extension .torrent that contains information about the file, its length, name, hashing information, and the location of a tracker. To start sharing a file, a user uploads a torrent to a server. It can then be downloaded by users from torrent websites.
A network of peers that are all trying to download the same file. Each peer in a swarm has anywhere from none of the file to the entire file. They are all uploading, downloading, or both to each other simultaneously. A swarm is joined when a client loads a torrent file.