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I am torn on that. I think there is a place for civil law to be a reflection of moral law.
Indeed, I think each an every law that is on the books is an expression of SOMEONE'S morality. The question of how just a law is comes down to how well it reflects the only true morality, which is God's law, and therefore how well the civil magistrate fulfills his God-ordained duty to be a terror to the evil-doer and rewarder of the good.
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I get the theonomy argument. But Bitcoin isn’t civil government, it’s a tool, like mathematics. It exists under God’s sovereignty but serves everyone, like rain falling on just and unjust alike.
Civil magistrates punish evil. Bitcoin validates signatures. Those are different spheres of authority.
Whose interpretation of God’s law gets encoded anyway? Reformed? Catholic? The moment we make Bitcoin enforce morality, we’re fighting over which morality, and we’ve lost what makes it useful and unstoppable.
Your node, your conscience. Filter if convicted. But let’s not confuse individual faithfulness with protocol level enforcement. Even common grace operates without discrimination
