After one year of writing Kingdom Bitcoin, I have become 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.
The siege of Samaria in 2 Kings 6 and 7 is one of the Bible’s most brutal economic stories. The city is cut off, food becomes scarce, prices become grotesque, and the crisis reaches directly into households. Elisha then announces that conditions will reverse, and by the next day food is suddenly available again after the enemy camp is abandoned. The story is not a lesson in central banking. It is a reminder that economies are built on real things, food, energy, labor, security, and trust. A central bank can change the price of money. It cannot print grain into a besieged city.
That realization became one of the biggest expansions in my first year of Kingdom Bitcoin. I started writing about Bitcoin and somehow ended up staring at thirty-year Treasury bonds. There was a reason. Bitcoin does not trade in a vacuum, households do not live in one, and even sovereign governments have balance sheets. Interest rates affect borrowing, government debt requires buyers, energy shocks reach inflation, and the cost of financing eventually works its way from bond desks into mortgages, businesses, and kitchen-table decisions.
This year made the lesson vivid. In September, the Federal Reserve raised its target range by a quarter point to 3.75%–4.00%, reminding markets that monetary policy can move differently from the story investors prepared themselves to hear. Federal Reserve The larger point is not whether one hike was right or wrong. It is that financial regimes change, and assumptions built during yesterday’s environment can become liabilities tomorrow. Bitcoin may have fixed issuance, but the world around it still reprices liquidity, credit, risk, and time.
Government debt belongs in that conversation without turning it into apocalypse theater. A sovereign can tax, borrow, issue currency, and refinance in ways a household cannot, but it does not escape arithmetic. Bonds mature. Interest must be paid. New debt must find willing buyers. Public credit is therefore a relationship between present promises and future resources.
Alexander Hamilton understood that early. His 1790 Report on Public Credit treated the new nation’s debts as central to the credibility of the Republic. Library of Congress America had won political independence, but Hamilton knew independence would be difficult to sustain if creditors concluded the country’s promises were unreliable. He was building confidence in a young financial system, not making an argument for unlimited borrowing. The principle still matters: public credit can finance a future, but eventually the future receives the invoice.
That is why I have become more careful about easy monetary narratives. The dollar is not automatically “dying” merely because countries diversify reserves. Gold can outperform Bitcoin when large buyers prefer an asset with centuries of monetary history. Bitcoin’s institutionalization can bring deeper markets and greater access while also introducing leverage, ETFs, treasury companies, and forced selling. Financialization gave Bitcoin a bid. It also gave Bitcoin a leash.
None of this weakens the Bitcoin thesis for me. It makes it more honest. Bitcoin does not need America to fail in order for Bitcoin to matter, and I have no interest in rooting for national dysfunction to prove a monetary point. A fixed-supply asset can matter inside a strong America just as property rights, fiscal credibility, honest markets, and responsible institutions matter inside a free society. The question is what role a scarce, independently verifiable monetary asset might play in a world where every sovereign still has promises to finance.
Then the macro comes home. A bond yield can become a mortgage rate. An energy shock can become a grocery bill. Policy can influence employment, credit, college financing, insurance, and retirement plans. God sees the household inside the statistic. That is why understanding macroeconomics should never become an excuse to stare at screens while the people we claim to be providing for sit across the table.
Jesus said in Luke 14:28, “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost?” That is not a bond-market verse. It is a stewardship verse. Count the cost. Understand the obligations. Do not confuse optimism with a plan.
After a year of writing, my conviction is simpler than my macro charts. Learn the system. Understand debt, rates, currencies, liquidity, and the pressures surrounding Bitcoin. But never allow the system to become the source of your peace. Markets move. Governments borrow. Central banks change course. Jesus does not.
Kingdom Principle 👑
Wisdom understands the system without allowing the system to become the source of our peace.
Debt is not merely a number on a government spreadsheet. Interest rates are not merely lines on a Bloomberg screen. Monetary decisions eventually move through businesses, wages, mortgages, savings, retirement accounts, and kitchen tables. Understanding the plumbing helps us steward wisely, but knowledge becomes another idol if it convinces us that enough analysis can remove uncertainty from life.
Bitcoin offers a different monetary architecture, but it does not exempt us from living inside the world as it actually exists. We should understand sovereign debt without rooting for sovereign failure, value scarcity without worshiping an asset, and prepare our households without living in fear. The sovereign has a balance sheet too. God does not.
Prayer 🙏
Heavenly Father, give us wisdom to understand the financial systems surrounding us without allowing those systems to govern our hearts. Teach our leaders to count the cost of promises made today, give households discernment in seasons of changing prices and interest rates, and help us distinguish prudent preparation from fear.
Holy Spirit, guide how we save, borrow, invest, give, and provide for those entrusted to us. Keep Jesus Christ as our source of peace when markets move, governments struggle, and forecasts fail. Help us understand the world clearly while remembering that our ultimate security has never rested in a currency, a bond, a portfolio, or Bitcoin, but in You. In Jesus’ name, Amen. 🙏📖🏛️🇺🇸⚖️📊🏠₿🕊️👑