After one year of writing Kingdom Bitcoin, I am less interested in predicting what Bitcoin’s price might do next and more interested in asking what money, technology, freedom, wealth, and stewardship are actually for. This six-part anniversary series looks back at the convictions that survived the writing, sharpened through Scripture, history, markets, technology, and ordinary household life. Some ideas became stronger, others became more disciplined, and a few changed entirely. What remains is a clearer hierarchy: God first, truth before narrative, stewardship before speculation, and technology beneath all of it.
Belshazzar was throwing a feast while Babylon sat under threat. Daniel 5 tells us that the king drank from sacred vessels taken from the temple in Jerusalem, praised idols, and then watched a mysterious hand write judgment onto the wall. Daniel was summoned to interpret the message, and one sentence still lands with extraordinary force: “You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.” The passage is not about monetary policy, and I would never force it into one. But it begins with a principle that has shaped almost everything I have written this year: measurement matters, and a scale is useful only if the standard itself is honest.
When I started Kingdom Bitcoin, I thought I was writing primarily about Bitcoin. Somewhere along the way, I realized I was really writing about the ruler. Money is not merely something we spend. It measures labor, stores pieces of human time, and carries purchasing power from today into tomorrow. A paycheck is yesterday’s work attempting to survive into next year, and savings are a claim that sacrifice made now should still possess meaningful value later.
That is why The Bent Ruler became more than a metaphor for me. If the ruler changes while everything else is being measured against it, we begin confusing movement in the ruler with movement in the thing being measured. A house can rise dramatically in dollar terms without becoming twice as useful. A portfolio can hit an all-time high while groceries, healthcare, insurance, tuition, and housing quietly consume more of the household budget. The problem with a ruler that stretches is not that the table somehow got longer.
Inflation therefore deserves more serious treatment than a monthly government statistic or an argument on financial television. New money and credit do not enter the economy evenly, and those closest to newly created liquidity may benefit before higher prices spread outward. Economists often associate that uneven transmission with Richard Cantillon, but households encounter it in much simpler language: some assets moved first, my paycheck did not. Bitcoin enters this conversation because its issuance follows rules users can inspect rather than decisions made meeting by meeting, but that does not make Bitcoin a magic shield against every force in the economy.
America’s Founding generation understood that political independence without credible financial architecture would remain incomplete. Alexander Hamilton’s 1790 work on public credit was built around the premise that establishing and supporting the credit of the new United States mattered deeply to the nation’s honor and prosperity. The young republic had obligations left from the Revolution and needed investors to believe those promises would be honored if the country hoped to finance its future. Hamilton was not secretly waiting for Bitcoin, and turning every Founder into a crypto enthusiast would be historical cosplay. But he understood that trust in the financial measure and trust in public obligations were not side issues to freedom.
Then all of this arrives at the kitchen table.
What does an honest measure mean when a family is deciding whether one income can still cover the mortgage, groceries, healthcare, college, generosity, and retirement? What does it mean when parents save diligently for twenty years only to discover that the target moved faster than the savings? This is where monetary theory either becomes pastoral or becomes decoration. God sees the household inside the statistic, the father trying to provide, the mother stretching a budget, and the child whose future is being planned years before he or she understands what money even is.
Proverbs 11:1 says, “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is His delight.” That verse does not tell us to buy Bitcoin, and Scripture should never be conscripted into an investment recommendation. It tells us something far more enduring. God cares about honest measurement because distorted measures eventually distort decisions, incentives, relationships, and stewardship.
After a year of writing, this conviction has only become stronger. Before asking what bitcoin is worth, inspect the ruler being used to measure it. A bent ruler cannot correct another bent ruler, and no monetary technology can redeem the human heart. But a straighter measure can help households see more clearly, preserve labor more faithfully across time, and make decisions with greater honesty.
That is where Kingdom Bitcoin begins for me now. Not with price. Not with speculation. With the measure.
Kingdom Principle 👑
Truthful stewardship begins with an honest measure.
Money influences how we value work, save for tomorrow, compare prices, make commitments, and provide for people we may never meet. If the measure itself becomes distorted, wisdom requires us to recognize the distortion rather than simply celebrate the larger numbers appearing on the page.
Bitcoin matters because it forces a fundamental question about monetary measurement, but Bitcoin remains beneath truth. The objective is not to replace one monetary idol with another. It is to seek straighter rulers while remembering that Jesus Christ remains the ultimate standard against which our lives, our wealth, and our stewardship are measured.
Prayer 🙏
Heavenly Father, give us eyes to recognize what is true even when distorted measures make reality difficult to see. Teach us to steward our labor, savings, generosity, and inheritance with wisdom, and protect us from confusing larger numbers with greater wealth or financial success with faithfulness.
Holy Spirit, lead our households into truth and contentment. Keep Jesus Christ at the center of how we understand value, and help us use every financial tool placed in our hands to serve people rather than worship possessions. May our measures be honest, our stewardship faithful, and our hearts firmly anchored in You. In Jesus’ name, Amen. 🙏📖⚖️📏🇺🇸🏠₿🕊️👑