History of BitSong developments!

Hello everyone and welcome to the BitSong Blockchain development update, May 2019.

Back in 2017, a small group of dreamy guys had the idea of ​​designing a new music streaming portal, different from all the others, with the precise goal of changing the way people listen to music and the one in which the artists get the revenue from the created works. Practically completely change the music industry, through the functions and advantages that the Blockchain technology puts at our disposal.

For more than 20 months, our team of developers have been working hard to build the BitSong Ecosystem and now that we are really close to the launch of our first Testnet, we are writing this article to introduce you a little into the architecture and general logic of network operations and provide you with the reasons behind our choices in the past.

The first step we have taken has been to choose a Blockchain suited to our needs, on which to implement our ecosystem. Initially we launched on the idea of ​​Ethereum, as at the time it enjoyed very high hype but it was also the most advanced Blockchain in terms of functions. However, after a few months and after talking to various industry experts, we realized that it did not fit our needs, as it does not have the speed we need, it uses the Proof of Work and the development is not exactly in line with our principles, but also the fact that the EVM has many bugs. Finally, we decided to leave Ethereum and continue the research.

At that point another option was Graphene, but the idea was immediately set aside, as graphene has not been updated for many months and it seemed almost as if the developers have abandoned the project. At that point we found Tendermint, with whom there was immediately “love”. It seemed that Tendermint was perfectly suited to what we had in mind and so we started working on it.