[bevel]

Not all that surprising that he leaves after the company was bought by a scamcoin.

[Cypher]

Its remarkable that a project that had almost a decade of work was bought out by a cryptocoin launched 6 months ago.

[aae42]

he's also working on his own cryptocurrency, so there's that...

[torben-friis]

I haven't kept up with those news. As a torent user (through a different client, I use qbittorrent) is there anything I should be wary of?

[cosmojg]

Nope, BitTorrent, Inc. is just as scummy as its new owners. Both of the proprietary(!) clients it distributes, BitTorrent and uTorrent, are loaded with adware and other garbage. The inventor of the open-source BitTorrent protocol we all know and love, Bram Cohen[0], already left the company late last year to start another company, Chia.Network[1], which is yet another cryptocurrency company.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen [1]https://chia.net

[zaarn]

Probably not using Bittorrent itself is sufficient. I would also be wary of their Sync application.