Just saw the surging traffic on our download site and noticed the link from HN. Re: Aggressive sharing. Yes and no. If the torrent is encoded as a Merkle tree,

Just saw the surging traffic on our download site and noticed the link from HN. Re: Aggressive sharing. Yes and no. If the torrent is encoded as a Merkle tree, you can verify subsets of a piece. For torrents that only include piece-level hashes, a BitMate client can upload an unverified piece. However, in our experience, its rare for pieces to be corrupted (unless the uploader is maliciously uploading corrupt pieces). Please let us have your feedback regarding the performance and stability of the client since this our first (read: pre-alpha) release.