Block #926,000 | Hope in the Middle: Why Bitcoin Requires a Longer Clock

Commemorating Block #926,000 by Reframing Bitcoin Through Blocks, Silence, and Generations

There is something holy about the space between.
Between promise and fulfillment.
Between revelation and incarnation.
Between Malachi (last Old Testament Book and Matthew (first New Testament Book).
Between the seed and the harvest.

Yesterday at The Father’s House in Vacaville, Pastor Jake Taylor preached on “Hope in the Middle,” and it struck me. God allowed four hundred silent years to pass between the closing of the Old Testament and the opening of the New. Four centuries where Heaven felt quiet, yet history shows God was anything but idle.

During those four hundred “silent” years:

• Alexander the Great swept across the Near East.
• The Maccabees rose in revolution and reclaimed Jewish independence.
• Rome marched in and reshaped the world in 63BC.

God’s silence was strategy.
His stillness was preparation.
His timeline was operating on a scale far larger than the people living in it could perceive.

Which brings me to bitcoin.

Most people measure bitcoin in Gregorian years, fiscal quarters, and election cycles. They look at price charts and think the story is done, as if the “golden era” already happened in 2013 or 2017 or 2020.

But bitcoin does not live on human clocks.
Bitcoin measures time in blocks (one approximately every 10 minutes).

And when you shift from calendar time to block time, everything changes.

When I first read the Bitcoin white paper and began my deep dive, the network was around block #273000. I had no idea what God was setting up in my life or how this technology would merge with my calling. I was simply curious, hungry for truth, and sensing something different about this system.

Today, amazingly, we reached block #926000.

For anyone who knows my story, the numbers 9 and 26 have followed me for decades. They show up in moments that matter, in signals I cannot ignore, and in milestones God seems to mark. And now, of all days, of all seasons, of all moments in my life, bitcoin hits block #926000 right as I write about God’s long arc of legacy.

You cannot script that. You cannot force that. Sometimes God signs His timing with numbers. And here is what those numbers tell me today:

We are not late.
We are not behind.
We are not chasing the train.

Bitcoin will ultimately emit roughly 6,930,000 blocks with last to occur in 2140.
We are not even one million blocks into this story with six million more to go.
We are still in the silent years.
We are still in the intertestamental period of bitcoin’s creation story.
We are still in the part where God prepares foundations that generations ahead of us will stand on.

People worry they missed bitcoin.
But they are using the wrong clock.

If God took 400 years to prepare the world for Christ, what does it mean that Bitcoin is only 17 years old and just now entering the most important phase of its adoption curve?

Legacy is not measured in decades.
Legacy is measured in blocks.

The question is not “Where is bitcoin today?”
The question is “Who will benefit from the foundations we build now?”
My children. Their children. And the generations who will live 400 years from now.

We are still early.
We are still building.
We are still in the middle.

And the middle is where God shapes everything that truly lasts.

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Prayer

Lord of eternity, teach us to trust the silence as much as the breakthrough.
Give us patience for the middle and vision for the generations yet to come.
Thank You for guiding our steps and marking our moments with signs that remind us You are near. Help us build with integrity, invest with faith, and steward what You place in our hands for those who will live long after we are gone.
Anchor our perspective in Your timeline, not the world’s. Amen.