Joshua did something after Israel crossed the Jordan that I understand differently after this year of Kingdom Bitcoin. God told him to take twelve stones from the river and build a memorial so that someday children would ask, “What do these stones mean?” The stones were not the miracle. They were markers of the miracle, reminders that God had carried His people through something they should not forget. As I look back on Year One, that is how these 330 articles feel to me. Not trophies. Stones.
In twelve months, I have written more than 335,000 words about money, Bitcoin, stewardship, America, technology, family, freedom, and faith. I completed my first book, The Bent Ruler: Broken Money, Honest Scales, and the Christian Fight for the Future. I am nearing completion of The Second Declaration: God, Bitcoin, and the Stewardship of America’s Next 250 Years. Somewhere between article one and article 330, Kingdom Bitcoin became larger than a newsletter about an asset. It became an attempt to understand what truth requires of us when money, technology, institutions, and culture are changing at the same time.
And before I go any further, I need to say something directly to everyone who has come along for this first year: thank you. To every subscriber who has opened an email, read one of these admittedly not-always-short articles, shared a post, sent a note, challenged an idea, encouraged me, or told someone else about Kingdom Bitcoin, I am genuinely grateful. There is something humbling about writing into a blank page and discovering people on the other side who actually want to think through these questions with me. You have made this first year far more meaningful than the article count could ever capture.
And to the paid subscribers, I want to offer a special and very heartfelt thank you. You chose to put real economic value behind this work, and I do not take that lightly. Your support has felt like more than a subscription. It has felt like a vote of confidence in the mission, the research, the writing, and the belief that conversations about money, Bitcoin, faith, stewardship, America, and the future are worth pursuing seriously. I am deeply grateful that you have chosen to invest in Kingdom Bitcoin while it is still being built.
The biggest shift was simple. I began writing about Bitcoin and realized I was actually writing about the ruler. Money is a measuring instrument for labor and time, yet we rarely stop to inspect the measure itself. That became the idea behind The Bent Ruler and one of the convictions I carry forward: before asking what Bitcoin is worth, inspect the ruler being used to measure it. Proverbs 11:1 says, “The Lord detests dishonest scales, but accurate weights find favor with him.” A society cannot distort the measure indefinitely without eventually distorting how people understand reality.
But honest money was never enough. The writing repeatedly forced me back to stewardship. Who controls the asset? Who carries the responsibility? What happens to it if I am gone? What does Denise understand, what are James and Elle learning, and who comes after us? “Not your keys, not your coins” matured into something I believe is more useful: know where responsibility lives. A seed phrase is not an estate plan, and financial sovereignty without competence is simply unmanaged risk wearing a confident T-shirt.
That household lens changed almost everything. Inflation stopped being a chart and became groceries, tuition, insurance, a mortgage, and the anxiety of parents trying to plan ten years ahead. Sovereign debt stopped being a Washington abstraction and became the bill one generation can quietly send to another. Inheritance stopped meaning only assets and began meaning wisdom, character, freedom, responsibility, and opportunity transferred across generations. The further into the future we are willing to think and sacrifice, the wider the circle of people our stewardship can serve. I came to call that long-horizon love.
America also moved from the background to the center of the work. Washington taught me to think about posterity. Madison sharpened my understanding that good architecture should not require perfect people to remain good. Hamilton forced me to think more deeply about public credit, productive capacity, and the financial machinery beneath a republic. Franklin kept appearing wherever builders, invention, thrift, and useful enterprise entered the story. The Second Declaration grew from that conviction: America’s next 250 years will require more than celebrating 1776. Freedom has to be stewarded, rebuilt, defended, and handed forward.
Then I went deeper into the machine itself. Mining, nodes, proof of work, blockspace, Lightning, privacy, custody, governance, wallets, and open-source development made Bitcoin more interesting to me, not less. The deeper I went, the less interested I became in slogans. Bitcoin is not powerful because nobody controls anything; it is powerful because different participants control different things and important claims can be independently verified. I increasingly prefer “trust-minimized and verification-maximized” to “trustless.” Truth should not fear inspection.
The writing also pushed outward into the Federal Reserve, Treasury markets, sovereign debt, gold, liquidity, regulation, AI, and capitalism. I learned to say when gold performed better than Bitcoin. I learned that Bitcoin does not need America to fail in order for Bitcoin to matter. I learned that the central bank cannot print oil, technology can expand human capability without providing human purpose, and profit is a useful signal but a terrible god. Perhaps most importantly, I became more comfortable allowing evidence to sharpen the thesis rather than demanding that every headline prove it.
Through all of it, Jesus Christ had to remain the center or the entire project would eventually become another sophisticated idol. Bitcoin cannot redeem humanity. Markets cannot tell us what a person is worth. AI cannot produce wisdom simply because it produces intelligence. Capitalism cannot manufacture virtue. Government cannot save us, and neither can escaping government. The hierarchy became clearer as the year went on: God, then truth, then stewardship, then technology.
So I look back at 330 articles with gratitude, but I do not see a finish line. I see stones beside the river. I see a year in which God used writing to clarify convictions I did not fully understand when I began. I see readers who decided these questions were worth thinking about alongside me. Joshua’s memorial existed so the next generation would ask what happened there. My hope is that someday these words cause someone to ask a better question about money, freedom, inheritance, technology, or faith, and then keep walking toward truth.
Year One taught me something I did not expect. Kingdom Bitcoin was never ultimately about making Bitcoin larger. It was about putting Bitcoin in its proper place. Place money beneath truth. Place technology beneath stewardship. Place the self beneath God. The future belongs to Him. The stewardship belongs to us.
Kingdom Principle 👑
Memorials matter when they remind us what God has done and prepare us to steward what comes next.
Year One gave Kingdom Bitcoin a clearer hierarchy and a clearer assignment. Seek honest measures without worshiping money. Pursue freedom without abandoning responsibility. Build technology without surrendering human dignity. Prepare households not merely to inherit assets, but to inherit wisdom.
The 330 articles are not the destination. Neither are the books. They are stones beside the river, reminders of what God has been teaching me and invitations to keep building faithfully from here.
And they also remind me that very little worth building is built alone. To everyone who has subscribed, read, shared, encouraged, questioned, prayed, and supported Kingdom Bitcoin during this first year, thank you for being part of these first stones. To the paid subscribers especially, your support has helped affirm that this work is worth continuing, deepening, and building upon. I am profoundly grateful.
Prayer 🙏
Heavenly Father, thank You for carrying me through this first year of Kingdom Bitcoin. Thank You for every article, every idea, every correction, every reader, every conversation, and every moment when writing forced me to understand something more deeply than I did before. Thank You for The Bent Ruler, for The Second Declaration taking shape, and for the opportunity to use words in service of truth, households, freedom, and generations still to come.
Thank You especially for every person who has chosen to come alongside this work. Bless those who read, share, encourage, challenge, pray, and financially support Kingdom Bitcoin. I am deeply grateful for every subscriber and especially for those paid subscribers who have invested directly in this mission. May I always steward their trust with humility, excellence, honesty, and gratitude.
Holy Spirit, guide what comes next. Keep me curious without becoming distracted, convicted without becoming prideful, and bold without losing humility. Above all, keep Jesus Christ at the center of Kingdom Bitcoin so that money remains beneath truth, technology remains beneath stewardship, and every success remains beneath God. The future belongs to You. Help me faithfully steward the part You have placed in my hands. In Jesus’ name, Amen. 🙏📖🪨✍️🎉🇺🇸🏠₿🕊️👑