Tribler Lab Countries in Bitcoin to Buy 14.4 Bandwidth Petabytes for their ProjectByBill Toulas-February 1st 2019.056 The project continues to innovate by introducing some of the smartest exit-node management bots. Torrent customer version 7.2 now includes all the new goodies resulting from the project’s recent developments. Delft University of Technology’s Tribler Lab has just spent some of its Bitcoin stash adding a humongous amount of “fresh” bandwidth to their Tribler torrent client. Tribler is the only truly decentralized torrent client built in the sense of a research project in Delft nearly a decade ago. Being an open source it attracts contributions from people all over the world while 15 university scientist engineers are working on the full-time project. Tribler uses a Tor-inspired onion routing approach, thereby ensuring its users are anonymous. But, this is exactly what caused Tribler users speed-related problems so far as onion routing implies that the shared data packages had to move through multiple connections before they hit their goal. However, though users enjoyed remaining behind the exit nodes of the encryption proxies they still had to use as there is no way around this. Tribler’s service will now be scaled up with the purchase of 14.4 petabytes of internet bandwidth from Leaseweb and the exit nodes will be managed by intelligent, autonomous and self-replicating bots called “Dollynators.” Professor Johan Pouwelse, leader and founder of the Tribler project, made the following comment on TorrentFreak: “We are building swarms of smart bots for bandwidth management. Those bots are able to make smart decisions as they are configured. We say robots can’t be manipulated as easily as humans, or forced to act against their own will. We can purchase servers autonomously using Bitcoin self-replicate to run a Tor-like exit node and sell Tribler bandwidth coins to survive another month. “All this awesomeness has been paired with the torrent client’s new version release (7.2.0) so if you’re interested in testing out Tribler now is a great moment to do so.