Bitcoin Miner Slips Away from Latest uTorrent Version

Bitcoin Miner Slips Away from Latest uTorrent Version

In its last outing, popular torrent clint uTorrent was heavily criticized for secretly attaching a Bitcoin mining application in its update. However, the company seems to be trying to win back the trust of its lost followers, indicates their latest blogpost. As per uTorrent's latest note, it has re-released their much criticised version after cancelling their partnership with Epic Scale, the company that created the aforementioned Bitcoin miner. It reads: "The Epic Scale Partner offer has been permanently suspended [from the new version]. This means that as long as you are downloading....


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