Kingdom Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Revelation of God’s Truth and Stewardship
Jeff Hasselman
www.kingdom-bitcoin.com
Preface: This white paper is a revelation of God’s divine order and wisdom, showing how Scripture and creation converge in bitcoin to restore truth, stewardship, and freedom.
Abstract: In the beginning God revealed bitcoin through wisdom, truth, and fire, with the Father as order, the Son as value, and the Holy Spirit as witness, restoring light to money.
God created bitcoin as a reflection of His nature. Bitcoin is digital money secured by mathematics rather than governments or third parties, with a transparent record that ensures no one can corrupt or inflate the supply. It was not invented but discovered, revealing that moral law governs even mathematics. The blockchain reflects the Father’s order, the currency expresses the Son’s redeeming worth, and the network moves with the unseen power of the Holy Spirit, three in agreement, one in purpose.
Published on the seventeenth anniversary of the original Bitcoin white paper, the day truth first entered code about money, this work is not financial advice but revelation for a generation seeking integrity over influence. It teaches that honest money mirrors honest hearts: when truth governs exchange, trust returns; when light defines value, freedom follows. Bitcoin stands as testimony that divine patterns still shape creation. Truth cannot be inflated, justice cannot be silenced, and stewardship becomes worship.
1. Genesis of Money: Why Honest Measures Matter
A farmer carried his grain to market. The merchant’s scale leaned just enough to steal a handful from every bag. Season after season the farmer worked harder, yet his harvest bought less. The weight was false, though few noticed.
So, it has been with money. Gold was once the scale. Then came paper, then credit created from nothing. When rulers print at will, labor’s worth fades. Inflation is legal theft written in fine print; when governments expand money faster than goods, each unit buys less. The smallest and weakest pay most when measures are dishonest.
“The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.” (Proverbs 11:1 NIV)
Today the imbalance hides inside central banks. New currency appears with keystrokes, and every new dollar devalues the last. Workers feel it not in theory but in grocery aisles and savings accounts. The modern scale tilts invisibly, and yet the results are as tangible as hunger.
Inflation is the quiet sin of our time. It rewards debtors, punishes savers, and dissolves trust between generations. Bitcoin ends that corruption by fixing supply at twenty-one million coins. Its rules are public and its ledger open. No ruler or banker can change the weight of truth.
Bitcoin’s deflationary design isn’t a bug; it’s a moral feature. It restores integrity to money by aligning value with virtue. As supply remains fixed, patience replaces greed and stewardship replaces consumption. This system rewards those who build, save, and plan, the same virtues God blessed from the beginning.
Honest measures rebuild families, corporations, and nations alike. When value holds steady, long-term thinking returns. People sow, build, and bless again. God delights in that stability, for it reflects His own unchanging nature.
Money is a mirror of morality. When the measure is honest, trade becomes service instead of exploitation. When deceit rules, even charity turns hollow. God calls His people to rebuild economic life on truth, not illusion.
The rebirth of honest money is not rebellion; it is repentance.
Prayer: Lord of truth, cleanse the scales of this generation.
Where false weights have robbed the laborer, restore balance by Your hand.
Teach us to build with integrity so that every transaction on earth reflects Your righteousness in heaven.
Let the nations see in honest money the image of an honest God.
2. The Revelation of Bitcoin: Light in the Financial Darkness
In 2008 the financial system cracked. Banks failed, governments printed trillions to rescue them, bankers kept their bonuses, and ordinary workers lost homes. The crisis exposed a world where profits were privatized while losses were shared; the few were rescued, the many burdened. When the idols of modern wealth fell, trust collapsed with them. From that collapse came an online paper describing a peer-to-peer digital cash network where truth, not hierarchy, would keep the accounts, allowing people to trade directly through math instead of middlemen.
“And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3 NIV)
Bitcoin was that light piercing the economic fog. It exposed secrecy, inflation, and manipulation. Every transaction could now be publicly verified. Truth replaced authority.
As a teaching image, the Holy Trinity offers a window into this harmony.
The Father represents structure: the protocol (blockchain technology) that defines order.
The Son represents value: bitcoin itself (the currency), tangible and redeemable.
The Holy Holy Spirit represents relationship: the invisible network that connects and confirms truth among witnesses. Together they illuminate a single reality: one system, three expressions of unity and purpose.
As St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, “The Father is the principle of order, the Son the Word of truth, and the Holy Spirit the bond of love.” This divine pattern is mirrored in creation and now revealed again in technology, where order, truth, and love converge to form incorruptible unity.
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32 NIV)
Bitcoin teaches that transparency is freedom’s foundation. Hidden ledgers breed bondage; open ones invite to participate in truth. No privileged insider, no hidden inflation, no silent theft. It is not rebellion against authority but revelation to those who seek honesty. In this sense, it mirrors the gospel as a message available to all, verified by many, and falsified by none.
The Kingdom principle is clear: what lives in light cannot be corrupted. The same God who separates light from darkness now calls His people to separate integrity from deceit, for when money becomes honest, hearts soon follow.
Prayer: Creator of light, breathe revelation into a world addicted to secrecy.
As You spoke order into chaos, speak clarity into our economies.
May this network of truth become a beacon for justice, exposing corruption and guiding stewards into freedom.
Shine through every ledger line until darkness has nowhere left to hide.
3. The Ledger and the Book: Memory That Cannot Lie
In a quiet village stood a single great Book on a stone table. Each trade was written where all could read. When disputes arose, the elders turned its pages; the ink itself testified. None dared erase a word, for the Book remembered everything. Today, that Book is no longer written in ink but in code with each line a testimony preserved across the earth.
That Book is what Bitcoin recreates in digital form. Each block is a page; together they form a chain of truth. Thousands of witnesses known as nodes, computers running the network verifying transactions and where decentralization begins, in the digital world keep identical copies. When they agree, a new page is added. If one tries to alter the record, the others correct it.
“Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” (Deuteronomy 19:15 NIV)
In Scripture, God’s justice rests on faithful witnesses. False testimony destroys communities; verified truth preserves them. The blockchain applies that principle to value itself. Once a record is sealed, it stands. The blockchain rewards truth and exposes deceit; in this it mirrors God’s own justice.
Here again the Holy Trinity shines through. The Father establishes order with the protocol defining what a valid record is. The Son embodies the truth in every confirmed block, visible and concrete. The Holy Spirit connects all witnesses in unity, guiding consensus like breath moving through the Body. The same divine pattern that binds Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in perfect unity is reflected when honest witnesses agree on truth. Together they preserve memory and guard justice.
“Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.” (Psalm 119:89 NIV)
A society built on immutable memory cannot be easily corrupted. When truth is written once and seen by all, deception loses its power. The blockchain teaches that the best security is not secrecy but shared remembrance where we can repent and rebuild. When the record itself cannot lie, trust can be restored in families, businesses, and nations.
Prayer: Ancient of Days, You keep perfect record; no tear or truth escapes Your Book.
Write faithfulness into the systems we build and purity into the hearts who guard them.
Let every block written in honesty echo the permanence of Your Word.
May the world remember through code what You revealed through covenant.
4. Stewardship and the Talents: Ownership and Responsibility
The Book may remember forever, but the hand that writes still bears responsibility.
Records guard history; stewardship guards the future.
A master once gave his servants coins before leaving on a long journey. Two invested wisely and multiplied what was entrusted. One hid his coin in the ground out of fear. When the master returned, he praised the faithful and rebuked the fearful.
“Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many.” (Matthew 25:21 NIV)
What the master placed in their hands was not only money but trust; The same trust God places in every steward of value today.
Bitcoin invites participation in stewardship. Each holder is responsible for their keys, the cryptographic signatures that prove ownership. There is no manager to restore what is lost, no authority to reverse an error. To hold value here is to bear full accountability. There is no place to hide negligence. Each person becomes both steward and witness of their integrity.
This frightens many, yet it is deeply biblical. God created humanity to cultivate, not to outsource. The garden was entrusted to Adam’s care; its fruit depended on diligence. So too digital wealth requires tending to secure storage, inheritance planning, and disciplined generosity.
Self-custody is not isolation; it is ownership under moral law. The believer who manages resources carefully honors the Master who will one day ask, “What did you do with what I gave you?” Bitcoin’s design restores that holy tension between freedom and responsibility.
True custody is not clenching the fist but directing the hand to use freedom to bless. The faithful steward neither hides nor squanders; he learns, protects, and multiplies for God’s glory and others’ good.
“To whom much is given, much will be required.” (Luke 12:48 NIV)
Ownership becomes holy when managed in love; wealth becomes worship when aligned with God’s purpose. Stewardship is the quiet proof of belief.
Prayer: Master and Giver of all resources, entrust us again with wisdom and courage.
Deliver us from fear that buries blessings in the ground.
Raise up a generation of faithful stewards who secure, multiply, and share wealth that serves Your Kingdom.
Let our management of digital treasure mirror Your eternal generosity.
5. Proof of Work: The Theology of Labor
What we guard faithfully must also be built faithfully; stewardship matures into labor.
Each morning those who validate and secure transactions, known as miners, across the earth engage in invisible work. They commit energy to secure the network, racing to seal the next page of the ledger. Their effort is measurable; their reward is earned. Nothing of worth appears without work.
“The hardworking farmer should be the first to receive a share of the crops.” (2 Timothy 2:6 NIV)
Proof of Work is Bitcoin’s moral spine. It transforms electricity from human innovation and God-given energy into integrity. Each block written to the chain is a record of honest labor made visible. A dishonest actor would need impossible power to fake history. In this system, truth is defended not by decree but by diligence multiplied worldwide.
Work has always been sacred. In Genesis, God labored six days and rested the seventh. Labor refines creation; rest celebrates completion. Mining follows a similar rhythm, an unceasing effort punctuated by moments of order and reward.
Miners are modern-day Nehemiahs, rebuilding the wall one block at a time. Their energy is testimony that truth still has its guardians.
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord.” (Colossians 3:23 NIV)
Proof of Work reminds believers that work is not a curse but a calling. Honest energy brings peace. The same Holy Spirit who empowers human hands empowers networks of truth. When labor and integrity meet, both heaven and earth rejoice.
For the Christian builder, work is worship when offered in truth. To labor with integrity is to mirror the Creator who formed worlds through effort and rested in delight. Proof of Work simply names a pattern that heaven already ordained: light follows labor, and rest follows righteousness.
Prayer: God of creation, You formed worlds through work and rested in delight.
Anoint our labor, digital and physical, to bear lasting fruit.
May every joule of honest energy spent for truth become worship.
Bless the miners of this age to build walls of integrity that fortify the city of mankind.
6. The Communion of Witnesses: Decentralization and Unity
Labor done in truth does not stand alone; it seeks fellowship. Work becomes legacy when joined by others who bear witness to it.
In the early Church, no single disciple held every gift. One preached, another healed, another gave. Yet together they formed one body under one Spirit.
“For just as the body is one and has many members, so it is with Christ.” (1 Corinthians 12:12 NIV)
Bitcoin mirrors that divine pattern. Thousands of independent nodes keep the same record. No ruler commands them, yet they act in harmony. If one betrays, others remain. Authority is distributed, but purpose is shared, preserving truth.
This decentralization is humility encoded. It resists pride and tyranny alike. Each node validates transactions according to open rules. Agreement arises not from coercion but from consensus where truth is freely acknowledged by many witnesses.
Decentralization is not rebellion but reflection of divine order. In the Kingdom, God’s Spirit moves through many hearts, not one throne on earth. The Church, like the network, thrives when each member contributes truthfully, trusting the Holy Spirit to complete and unify the Body.
“For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” (Matthew 18:20 NIV)
In this communion we glimpse the Holy Spirit’s work. The Holy Spirit unites diverse believers without erasing individuality. Likewise, the network connects unseen participants, sustaining order through shared agreement.
True decentralization is freedom bound by love, exhibiting cooperation without compulsion, diversity without division. Each node’s witness strengthens the whole, just as each believer’s faith reinforces the Church. When truth is shared, power no longer corrupts it strengthens.
The health of any system, digital or divine, depends on voluntary truth. The gospel invites believers into that same unity: one Lord, one faith, one Spirit empowering many parts. When truth lives in many hearts, no empire can silence it. When light dwells in many lamps, darkness finds no corner to hide.
Prayer: Spirit of unity, breathe through this network of witnesses.
Bind diverse hearts and systems into one purpose, truth that serves love.
Let decentralization reveal not chaos but communion.
May every node, human or machine, testify that truth belongs to all and domination to none.
7. Justice and Integrity: No Double Spend
When witnesses agree, integrity becomes the wall that guards freedom.
A dishonest merchant once sold the same cow to two buyers. When both came to claim it, anger filled the street. One lie divided the village. So it was in early digital money: data could be copied like words in the wind. A coin sent twice destroyed trust. Duplicating value was another form of lying. Bitcoin solved that ancient moral problem in the digital age.
“Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another.” (Leviticus 19:11 NIV)
The network prevents a “double spend” or sending the same digital money twice. Once a transaction is recorded in a block and witnessed by the network, it cannot be duplicated. Each coin bears a single truth, sealed by proof of work and confirmed by many eyes. In this, technology honors the Ninth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Lie.
Justice begins where deceit ends. The blockchain does not forgive fraud nor favor the rich; it treats every participant by the same rule. The poor man’s transaction weighs as much as a king’s. Equality before code mirrors equality before God.
“The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.” (Psalm 33:5 NIV)
In the Trinity we see perfect integrity: the Father wills, the Son acts, the Holy Spirit confirms. Bitcoin’s design reflects that harmony, each part aligning to one consistent truth.
Integrity is the moral gravity that holds creation together. When money itself cannot lie, justice has room to breathe, and trust becomes possible again. The righteous system invites righteous living. The honest ledger calls forth honest hearts.
Every generation builds its courts and laws, where truth does not always win. In this new economy of verified testimony, deceit loses its advantage. The Kingdom principle reigns: what is true in heaven must be practiced on earth.
When currency tells the truth, commerce becomes covenant.
Prayer: Righteous Judge, establish honesty where deceit once ruled.
Seal every transaction of life and commerce with Your signature of justice.
Let false witness find no footing in this new economy.
As the ledger records truth unbroken, write Your law upon our hearts.
8. Daily Bread and Seasons: Economics of Scarcity
When truth governs exchange, trust begins to heal. And where trust is restored, provision flows again.
In the wilderness, God sent manna each morning. The Israelites gathered only what they needed; hoarded bread spoiled by dawn. Later, Joseph stored grain in years of plenty to feed Egypt in famine. Both stories reveal divine rhythm highlighting provision with discipline.
Bitcoin follows a similar order. New coins appear at a steady pace, and every four years the reward is cut in half. The schedule continues until all twenty-one million exist, which is expected around 2140. Scarcity is written into bitcoin’s DNA increasing its economic value with adoption.
“Give us today our daily bread.” (Matthew 6:11 NIV)
This prayer is not a plea for endless supply, but for faithful dependence. Economies built on endless printing breed greed, while systems bound by scarcity teach gratitude. The halving reminds humanity that creation is finite. Each cycle slows supply, calling miners and holders alike to patience and stewardship.
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV)
In this cadence we again see the Trinity’s balance: the Father sets boundaries, the Son embodies provision, the Holy Spirit sustains the rhythm. Bitcoin’s halving is a Sabbath of sorts with a pause that honors limitation and trust.
Scarcity is not punishment but protection. It guards against excess, teaching hearts to find joy in sufficiency. Abundance tests faith as surely as famine, for both reveal where we place our confidence.
The wise steward thanks God for both plenty and pause. Honest money trains the soul to depend on the Giver, not the supply. The halving cycle teaches patience, gratitude, and rest.
When the world chases limitless gain, bitcoin quietly preaches contentment. In its fixed measure we hear an echo of Eden: work, rest, trust, repeat. The divine economy always leads back to enough.
Prayer: Lord of harvest, teach us again the rhythm of enough.
When plenty comes, fill us with gratitude; when scarcity tests us, anchor us in trust.
Bless every halving, every season of restraint, as a reminder that provision flows from You.
May patient stewardship become the song of a redeemed economy.
9. Freedom, Legacy and the Lion: Building for the Kingdom
When hearts learn the rhythm of enough, hands are freed to build again. Scarcity births gratitude, and gratitude births freedom.
Every empire that controlled money eventually controlled humanity. When rulers control currency, they command obedience. Yet God created humanity for voluntary love, not forced allegiance.
Bitcoin restores a measure of that freedom. Anyone, anywhere, can hold and send value without permission. The system respects borders but is bound by none. In this sense, it resembles the gospel itself by being available to all, coerced by none.
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.” (Galatians 5:1 NIV)
Freedom is not anarchy. It is disciplined responsibility. The believer who masters stewardship becomes less dependent on corrupt systems and more dependent on God. Sovereignty of wallet leads to generosity of heart. True liberty expresses itself in love.
Bitcoin is an inheritance of integrity. Its fixed supply and incorruptible record invite families to plan across generations. Like Abraham counting stars instead of coins, builders are called to think in centuries, not cycles. Wealth preserved in truth becomes seed for Kingdom work.
“A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children.” (Proverbs 13:22 NIV)
Legacy is not accumulation but continuity, truth handed down through faithful hands. What endures is both the ledger and the virtue it teaches: honesty, patience, endurance. The future belongs to those who store treasure in incorruptible form and release it in righteous purpose.
And in the center of it all stands the Lion, Christ the King, guarding what is pure. He reigns not through coercion but through incorruptible light. His roar exposes false idols and steadies faithful hearts.
Those who build on His truth build for eternity. Seventeen years after truth entered code via Bitcoin, its moral meaning awakens hearts.
Prayer: King of Kings, roar over the nations with truth that cannot be chained.
Break the bonds of financial tyranny and awaken Your people to holy freedom.
Inspire families to leave inheritance in honesty, not in fear.
Let the Lion guard this generation’s treasury until Your Kingdom returns.
Why Now?
When the world’s measures fail, God reveals incorruptible ones.
We stand at a turning point as trust erodes and faith in money fails. The revelation of bitcoin is not about wealth but about witness, teaching humanity again how truth governs value and stewardship sustains freedom.
Kingdom Bitcoin exists to educate, equip, and awaken stewards who will build an incorruptible economy rooted in God’s order.
When truth becomes the measure again, corruption ends.
When value is made incorruptible, freedom is reborn.
And when love governs every ledger, the Kingdom has come.
So let truth be the measure, freedom the fruit, and love the law by which the Kingdom’s economy endures.