Topic: BitCoinTorrentz.com - Torrent Download Service - page 7. (Read 57203 times)

Problem with the site.

I tried download from a magnet link and a torrent file, just goes back to main page with no error message.

Account is funded for 10GB

File is Over 3 GB

I verified that torrent is valid (tried to download with client)

Great Service I love it keep up the good work

There is no btc client, he uses an API but they do have a client, yes..

I'm also concerned about seeding, but I have yet to still find an alternative to this service and I LOVE IT! Please maintain and grow it!

i remember someone wrote about polling the bitcoin every other minute or so with low priority and restarting it on failure

Absolutely.

Thoughts from the CEO on costs of development work to make this a much more reliable service please.

I guess the biggest problem of the whole endeavor is the lack of reliability. There are two "foreign" components, namely the bitcoin client and the BitTorrent client, both with their own reliability problems, and limited time of the one person running the project. So it is no surprise that the entire system is not perfectly reliable.

Perhaps some good ideas about this are needed. How about a little bit of monitoring and automatically restarting components that fail? Ideally all open tasks should survive such a partial reboot and pick up where they were interrupted.

The second best task survival idea may be to have the tasks and the recently paid bitcoins on the book (in the database) and restart tasks from the beginning that were interrupted by some partial failure. Or perhaps pay back the already paid bitcoins and ask the user to start again from scratch. Payback may just mean to set the task to unfulfilled and ready to be restarted in the bookkeeping. Or it might mean to actually send the bitcoins back.

Of course it would be much better if each and every piece of software involved were perfectly reliable, but I have my doubts. So the intermediate aim may just be to provide a reasonably good user experience in the face of occasional failures without the need for round-the-clock monitoring by the operator.

My other worry would be the seeding or the lack of it.

Yeah, I fixed the first error that you posted about but didn't realise that the bitcoin client had also crashed.
Apologies for the downtime guys. The problem has been fixed now.

problem surfaces in checkout.js, line 58 (last line in quote)


when trying to load the url constructed in the line above.

uuid seems to be undefined, so it tries to load http://bitcointorrentz.com/checkout.php?undefined which results in a "http error 500 (Internal Server Error)"

apparently this has been fixed. now I got the bug (for the first time) with the popup being 0-sized empty payment popup (only the "x" visible)

Seriously dude, you need to get on the fucking ball.

it's been this way since yesterday

Same for me yesterday. I was trying to show a friend how great a site it is.

can't initiate a download... after entering magnet or torrent url and hitting "continue" button, browser times out on "bitcointorrentz.com/uploader.php"

Dividends were paid out a few days ago, here is this months financial & usage statistics:

Financial Statistics
Monthly Earnings: 16.53825 btc
Dividend per share: 0.01653825 btc/share
ROI @ 0.51 btc/share: 3.24%

Usage Statistics
New users this month: 64
Total users: 422
Downloads this month: 360
Bandwidth this month: 155 GB

I am using firefox in Ubuntu. It starting working for little bit after I restarted my computer. Sometimes I switch to chromium just to use bitcointorrentz.

It's frustrating to use sometimes (one time I paid to download a torrent that didn't download, I kept the status page in my browser for days), but it's a really useful service and a perfect application of bitcoin for micropayments.

I see the same thing, though it's never working for me.

it only works occasionally for me. When it doesn't, I just get the little "x" bubble instead of the whole "pay with bitcoins" box.

Clicking "Download Torrent" isn't working anymore.

Publicly uploading opens him up to dramatically more lawsuits were a user to violate the ToS and download unlawful content in his/her country.

Downloading content when unlawful to do so is almost never prosecuted. Uploading content when/where unlawful to do so is frequently prosecuted, and every time the file is uploaded, that's another count of illegal activity, which is how the court systems screw teens' parents out of boatloads of money. Download a $500 piece of software - it's unlikely anyone will care unless your ISP actually keeps tabs on you. Upload that a few times, and you're a much higher-valued target. Same with enforcement of almost all laws -- if you have an ounce of weed, or one carton of untaxed cigarettes, you'll likely just get a small fine and possibly a very short stay in jail (in the US, anyway). If you have a pound or few of weed, or 100+ cartons of unpaid cigarettes, you're facing serious prison time, because those are "distributor" amounts.

I used this service on a small file a few months ago, on a file i uploaded.

seemed to work good.

Would like to see any updates in the start of the topic, 26 pages is a lot to go through...

Also I like to have the option to get some seeding in, maybe a check box for 100%, 200%, 400%...

Is the server down? bitcointorrentz has been trying to download a <1GB torrent for me for nearly 3 hrs. and no progress.