Basically, some article I read on TorrentFreak seems to give me the impression that they’re the best thing since sli- torrents, so I decided to give it a try.
I made a torrent of a small file (< 256 KiB) with uTorrent 1.8.4 and used TorrentSpy to extract the infohash and plugged it into a magnet URI as follows.
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7e1e4c13d8726730a1982b877c4a310908789b0d (By the way, feel free to (try to) download that to help my testing)
I set uTorrent to seed that torrent and I added the magnet URI to uTorrent on my server.
Currently (30 minutes later), my home laptop and my server have yet to find each other over DHT.
FAIL!