Tron’s BitTorrent Network Reaches 2 Billion Downloads
Cointelegraph
Published Aug 13, 2020 12:20AM ET
Updated Aug 13, 2020 02:00AM ET
Peer-to-peer file sharing service BitTorrent, and little brother uTorrent, have now been downloaded more than two billion times on various platforms. Last year the network accounted for 3% of all downstream, and 28% of all upstream, traffic across the internet.
The company attributes the figures to the “longstanding popularity of its classic desktop torrent clients, as well as its new web-based torrent downloader and player built for the streaming age”. It said the Android version of the service on Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Play Store is the “most popular torrent downloader”.
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