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A significant technical contribution from µTorrent was the introduction of uTP (Micro Transport Protocol). Implemented in version 2.0, uTP was designed to address the "TCP congestion control" problem. Standard TCP file transfers often saturated network buffers, causing high latency (lag) for other internet applications.

The nadir of µTorrent's reputation occurred in March 2015. Users discovered that the installer for µTorrent Classic version 3.4.2 was silently installing a piece of software called "Epic Scale." This was a background application that used the user’s CPU cycles to mine the Litecoin cryptocurrency. utorrent classic

Watch your download speed and "seed" (upload) status in the main dashboard. A significant technical contribution from µTorrent was the