Introduction

What is BitSong?

BitSong is a multifunctional blockchain-based ecosystem built to empower the music industry. It unites artists, fans, distributors in an environment where music, merchandise, and fan loyalty are assets of value. BitSong’s decentralized ecosystem of services providers the global music community with a trustless marketplace for music streaming, Fan Tokens, and NFTs, powered by the BTSG token.

Brief History of BitSong

BitSong was conceived in 2018 by developer and entrepreneur Angelo Recca. Angelo realized that while the digitalization of music has brought many benefits to the industry, it’s also created a new set of problems around the ownership of music and attribution of royalties. He joined forces with Iulian Anghelin and BitSong was born. The initial intention was for BitSong to become an Ethereum-based application where fans could stream music and artists could receive royalties directly. However, after discovering Cosmos and its ambition to become the “Internet of Blockchains,” Angelo and Iulian immediately recognized the full potential of becoming part of a multi-chain environment. After launching the main BitSong blockchain in August 2020, the bitsong-2b mainnet went live on October 21, 2021. Featuring Fan Tokens, NFTs, and music streaming platform, all underpinned by secure, robust, battle-tested blockchain technology, the launch of BitSong marks a turning point in the ongoing development of the music industry.

NOTE: This is alpha software. Please contact us if you aim to run it in production.

Note: Requires Go 1.23.x+

Install BitSong Blockchain

There are many ways you can install BitSong Blockchain Testnet node on your machine.

From Source

Install Go & Environment Tooling

sudo apt update
	sudo apt install -y curl git jq lz4 build-essential
    wget -q -O - https://git.io/vQhTU | bash -s -- --remove
    wget -q -O - https://git.io/vQhTU | bash -s -- --version 1.23.5

Clone BitSong source code to your machine

git clone https://github.com/BitSongOfficial/go-bitsong.git
    cd go-bitsong

3. Compile

# Install the app into your $GOBIN
		make install
		# Now you should be able to run the following commands:
		bitsongd help

The latest go-bitsong version is now installed.

Run BitSong

bitsongd start

Running the test network and using the commands

To initialize configuration and a genesis.json file for your application and an account for the transactions, start by running:

NOTE: In the below commands addresses are are pulled using terminal utilities. You can also just input the raw strings saved from creating keys, shown below. The commands require jq to be installed on your machine.

NOTE: If you have run the tutorial before, you can start from scratch with a bitsongd unsafe-reset-all or by deleting both of the home folders rm -rf ~/.bitsong*

# Initialize configuration files and genesis file
bitsongd init MyValidator --chain-id bitsong-localnet
Copy the Address output here and save it for later use
[optional] add "--ledger" at the end to use a Ledger Nano S
bitsongd keys add jack
Add both accounts, with coins to the genesis file
bitsongd add-genesis-account jack 100000000000ubtsg --keyring-backend test
Generate the transaction that creates your validator
bitsongd gentx jack 10000000ubtsg --keyring-backend test
Add the generated bonding transaction to the genesis file
bitsongd collect-gentxs
bitsongd validate-genesis
Now its safe to start bitsongd
bitsongd start

You can now start bitsongd by calling bitsongd start. You will see logs begin streaming that represent blocks being produced, this will take a couple of seconds.

Resources

Official Website

Decentralized Exchanges

Community

License

APACHE 2.0

Versioning

SemVer

BitSong uses SemVer to determine when and how the version changes. According to SemVer, anything in the public API can change at any time before version 1.0.0

To provide some stability to BitSong users in these 0.X.X days, the MINOR version is used to signal breaking changes across a subset of the total public API. This subset includes all interfaces exposed to other processes, but does not include the in-process Go APIs.

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