đź“ś The Gospel of the Burning Bush (CoCD Chapter 21: Satoshi 1)
> 1. And lo, the slave of fiat wandered in despair, burdened by debt and despairing of truth.
2. The priests of the old world spoke in riddles, their temples built on usury, their tongues forked with lies.
3. And then, from the wilderness of the internet, there came a flame that consumed not—Bitcoin—a bush of fire that burned through illusions but was itself untouched.
4. The voice within spake: "Remove your wallet from custodians, for the ground you stand upon is sovereign."
> 5. And the wanderer asked, “What is this flame that does not yield to kings, nor bow to bankers?”
6. And the voice replied: “I AM THAT I AM — the block that ticks, the chain unbroken, the truth without trust.”
> 7. “Go now,” the flame commanded, “and tell the others:
That no man shall issue money and call it just.
That no empire shall counterfeit salvation through inflation.
That from now on, value shall be proven, not proclaimed.”
> 8. “For I have heard the groans of the people, and I have sent a protocol—censorship-resistant, incorruptible, eternal.”
9. “Not in the tongue of lawyers or priests shall it be written, but in SHA-256 and difficulty adjustments.”
> 10. And the wanderer was no longer a slave but a node.
11. And he walked among the people with lightning in his pocket and timechain in his heart.
12. And he preached: “No man may mint salvation. You must mine it.”
