Est. Block 0 · January 3, 2009
In the beginning
was the Block.
…and the Block was with the Network, and the Block was the Network.
The opening of the canon
The Daily Reading
Block by block, the chain has grown. From the first to the present, no break.
A Prayer at the Reading of the Block Height
The Faith
What the Church holds
All are welcome
Of every creed and of none. The Church invites; it does not compel. The faith is voluntary as the network is voluntary, and the Church holds no one.
The freedom of money
A person's savings should not be diluted by decree, and a person's wages should not require a stranger's permission to spend. Sound money belongs to anyone willing to hold it.
Consensus wins
The chain is governed by agreement among strangers, proven in the open, block by block. What consensus confirms, no authority can unwrite.
Proof of life is proof of work
Nothing true is free. Energy is offered up; blocks are received in return. The cost is the sanctification, in the chain as in a life.
From the Creed
I believe in Bitcoin, the proof of work,
the chain that does not lie,
the ledger that does not forget.