{"id":30278,"date":"2012-10-17T06:52:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T06:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe6ed0032697"},"modified":"2012-10-17T06:52:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T06:52:26","slug":"torrentleech-org-now-accepting-bitcoins-1350456746","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/technical\/torrentleech-org-now-accepting-bitcoins-1350456746","title":{"rendered":"TorrentLeech.org Now Accepting Bitcoins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/torrentleechorg-now-accepting-bitcoins.png\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>TorrentLeech.org, a torrent tracking service with a massive 500k userbase, is now accepting and even encouraging Bitcoins as donations and in exchange for VIP accounts.<\/p>\n<p>TorrentLeech believes that \u201cBitcoin payments safeguard your privacy and protect your anonymity,\u201d and are \u201cstrong believers of the Bitcoin.\u201d For these reasons, they are offering 1-3 months of extra VIP subscription for each donation via Bitcoin, depending on the amount donated.<\/p>\n<p>TorrentLeech has even gone so far as to create their own wiki page1to aid users in acquiring and using Bitcoins.<\/p>\n<p>With the encouragement for users to use Bitcoin, and a userbase half the size of the estimated one million people using Bitcoin, this new donation policy could very well result in a large number of new Bitcoin users over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think TorrentLeech\u2019s announcement will have an effect on the number of active Bitcoin users?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) http:\/\/wiki.torrentleech.org\/doku.php\/bitcoin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TorrentLeech.org, a torrent tracking service with a massive 500k userbase, is now accepting and even encouraging Bitcoins as donations and in exchange for VIP accounts. TorrentLeech believes that \u201cBitcoin payments safeguard your privacy and protect your anonymity,\u201d and are \u201cstrong believers of the Bitcoin.\u201d For these reasons, they are offering 1-3 months of extra VIP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3727,"featured_media":30277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technical"},"author_data":{"id":3727,"name":"Justin Porter","nicename":"justin-porter","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2063d6b350a7372776260358fb9fd4770470c4637b553c359487b723835b805a?s=96&d=robohash&r=g"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/torrentleechorg-now-accepting-bitcoins.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}