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TorrentGalaxy.to ‘Returns’ as a Dubious Memecoin Promo Page

The mysterious disappearance of TorrentGalaxy, which left millions of users and its own staff in the dark following its sale last year, has taken an unexpected turn. The site’s main domain has been transformed into a landing page promoting a memecoin. This strongly suggests that the original TorrentGalaxy project has been completely abandoned.

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At the start of the year, TorrentGalaxy was one of the most-visited torrent sites, welcoming millions of users every day.

Launched by former members of ExtraTorrent which had shut down in 2018, TorrentGalaxy soon established itself as one of the most stable torrent sites.

TorrentGalaxy’s Mystery Shutdown

In the summer of 2014, things changed when the original founders sold the site to a new, undisclosed party. The handover was immediately noticeable to outsiders, as the typically stable site suddenly began experiencing repeated stretches of downtime.

The site’s troubles escalated in January 2025, when the new operators posted a message claiming they were in “financial difficulties“, asking users to chip in for server costs. In late February, the site became unreachable, and by March, the site’s popular upload bots also stopped working.

The reason for the sudden shutdown was a mystery and couldn’t be explained by financial issues. The site’s staffers were also left in the dark, and there was no farewell message of any kind to officially mark the site’s ending.

In March, the staffers still had hope for a miracle comeback, but the chances of that were not seen as very high and dramatically shrank in the passing months. Meanwhile, what truly happened behind the scenes was still unknown.

A Memecoin Promo

Today, the TorrentGalaxy saga gets an unexpected new chapter. The main torrentgalaxy.to domain is suddenly operational again. However, it does not list any torrents.

Instead, it now promotes a memecoin project for a token named $1 on the Solana network. Whether TorrentGalaxy’s new owners are connected to this or if the site changed hands is unknown.

Needless to say, this has nothing to do with the original TorrentGalaxy site. We can’t guarantee that the site is free of trouble, aside from the inherent crypto risks, so potential visitors should tread with caution.

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A look at the site’s source code reveals it is powered by a standard configuration script that’s used for memecoin projects. For now, most links on the page are not functional either. They simply point to a “#” placeholder, suggesting that it is still work in progress.

We see no point in scrutinizing this memecoin in detail, as there are better outlets for that. However, the sudden TorrentGalaxy comeback does strongly suggest that the torrent site has been abandoned completely, marking the end of an era.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Here’s how orbital dynamics wizardry helped save NASA’s next Mars mission

Blue Origin is counting down to launch of its second New Glenn rocket Sunday.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—The field of astrodynamics isn’t a magical discipline, but sometimes it seems trajectory analysts can pull a solution out of a hat.

That’s what it took to save NASA’s ESCAPADE mission from a lengthy delay, and possible cancellation, after its rocket wasn’t ready to send it toward Mars during its appointed launch window last year. ESCAPADE, short for Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, consists of two identical spacecraft setting off for the red planet as soon as Sunday with a launch aboard Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket.

“ESCAPADE is pursuing a very unusual trajectory in getting to Mars,” said Rob Lillis, the mission’s principal investigator from the University of California, Berkeley. “We’re launching outside the typical Hohmann transfer windows, which occur every 25 or 26 months. We are using a very flexible mission design approach where we go into a loiter orbit around Earth in order to sort of wait until Earth and Mars are lined up correctly in November of next year to go to Mars.”

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