The cryptocurrency landscape has been hit hard this week.

Bitcoin is down more than 50% from its high a few months earlier and even some ‘stablecoins’ have started to disintegrate.

This type of volatility is not unexpected and the early adopters have already lived through a few of these crashes. This includes The Pirate Bay.

The notorious torrent site is somewhat of a crypto pioneer. In 2013, it was one of the first to add support for Bitcoin donations , with Litecoin and Monero following shortly after. Later on, TPB also popularized website-based mining , something that not all users were in favor of.

The PirateToken

Last year The Pirate Bay added another crypto project to its list with the launch of PirateToken (TPB) . Initially, we assumed that this was some type of advertising deal for a third party, but the site swiftly reassured the public it was serious.

“It’s a soft launch to a new thing we want to try and we have many ideas,” the TPB team wrote, noting that the token might be useful to donate to moderators and uploaders, or to purchase VIP content.

“Much Ideas. Much Wow. So Great,” they added, hoping that the site’s users would hop on the bandwagon.

This week, exactly a year has passed since the Pirate Token went live and, thus far, the project hasn’t been particularly successful. At the time of writing the token trades for little over $1 , far off the $15 high that was reached soon after it went public.

Needless to say, the recent crypto crash hasn’t helped but the price had already begun to tumble while Bitcoin was making new highs, so that’s not exactly an excuse.

478 Holders, 5 Transactions

The price isn’t really the biggest concern either. From what we can see, there is simply very little interest in the project. In fact, the number of people owning some TPB tokens is dropping. There are currently just 478 holders left , which is a tiny fraction of the site’s userbase.

These holders aren’t very active either. Over the past 30 days, there have only been five transactions.

Another bad sign is the fact that 99.98% of the 100,000,000 tokens are still held by the creator of the project. So while the theoretical market cap is over $100 million, the public only owns roughly $20,000 worth of TPB.

None of this should come as a surprise really. The token has no utility at the moment and The Pirate Bay isn’t promoting it in any way either. Yes, there is a dedicated link to the “token” page on the site, but that’s currently redirecting to the homepage.

Perhaps all of this will change when the TPB team spurs into action, but holders shouldn’t get their hopes up. Right now, it’s certainly not the digital pirate treasure they’d hoped for but the same can also be said for other niche tokens, including BitTorrent .

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Torrenting has emerged as one of the best ways to share files amongst peers. Today, you can visit any torrent site and download music, videos, pdfs, and other files almost readily. There are several best torrent sites like The Pirate Bay that are frequently visited by torrent enthusiasts.

However, torrent sites have always attracted negative publicity due to breach of copyrighted content and therefore law enforcement agencies have shut down several torrent sites over the years. It is the reason why Pirate Bay proxy and other proxy sites have emerged lately to allow users to access websites that are unavailable easily.

The Pirate Bay, the popular torrent search engine, has been blocked by government agencies in countries like UK, India, France, and Australia. Thanks to Pirate Bay proxies, you can still access the torrent website by bypassing the geo-restrictions. There are several Pirate Bay proxy sites and TPB mirror sites that you can use to download torrent in 2021.

We have compiled a list of Pirate Bay proxy sites for your ease. Check out below.

How To Check Pirate Bay Status?

If you’re not able to access TPB from your region, you can Google “Is Pirate Bay down” and check on down detectors from the search results.

If it is down then there is no need to worry, we’ve prepared a list of Pirate Bay proxy sites that you can use in 2021.

Pirate Bay Proxy List 2021

Here is a list of the Pirate Bay Proxy sites for 2021. We’ve tested these proxy sites and you can surely download your favorite torrent from these TPB proxy sites when the Pirate Bay is down.

How Do PirateBay Proxies Work?

A proxy site is nothing but an intermediate server that requests data from the site you want to access on your behalf and returns the received data back to you. This ensures that your IP address is not visible to the original website. Proxy websites are used as a means to obscure your IP address and access content without allowing the destination website to track you.

The popularity of TPB has lead many torrenting enthusiasts to create Pirate Bay proxy sites and Pirate Bay mirror sites so that you can easily download the content available on the original website despite its ban in some countries. When websites are banned from certain locations, you can use proxy sites or mirror sites to access them. There are many Piratebay proxy sites that can be used if the original Pirates Bay website is not working for you.

Why Use Pirate Bay Proxy Sites?

The original Tpb is often down or blocked in certain regions which is when you can use Pirate Bay Proxy sites to access torrent files. We have updated the list of tpb proxy sites and have checked that all the sites in this list are working flawlessly.

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