Bitshares (BTS) was launched in July 2014 as one of the first distributed encrypted password exchanges. Dan Larimer, co-founder of Steemit and EOS and now CTO of EOS, has launched Bitshares (BTS). Larimer is trying to build Bitshares because he believes that the evidence of workforce depletion is flawed due to network concentration. To solve this problem, he proposed a new consensus algorithm called bitshares concept and delegated proof of participation (DPoS). Although this consensus algorithm is less efficient, Bitshares offers faster network speed and flexibility.