Here is a tutorial on how to set up a proxy on uTorrent: Open your uTorrent client. Click on Options and then press Preferences. A new window pops up. On the Proxy Server section choose the Type Socks5 or HTTP. For Proxy enter one of NordVPN's servers addresses, that allows P2P traffic.
We wrote an an entire article on reasons to anonymize your torrents but the short answer is: If you don't use uTorrent anonymously, you don't know who's monitoring your downloads and what they're doing with that information. Unless you take steps to protect yourself, your true IP address is available for anyone to see on uTorrent. You may not realize it, but you can pull up a list of all peers you're connected to in a given bittorrent swarm and see the full IP addresses for each and every peer. For those that aren't familiar with the term, an IP address is a unique series numbers that is assigned to you by your internet service provider. An IP address can be used to identify a unique computer, device or connection. To see your current IP address, go to Check your IP at IPVanish.com(it's totally free and takes 5 seconds. Your IP address will be in the upper left corner). Yikes! The truth is you are much less anonymous online than you probably realize.