Orange Bible
There is a “rich and vibrant community of Christian bitcoiners”, says the creator of the app — which, between faith, artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies, turns reading the Scriptures into a digital game with rewards in satoshis.
A, a Bible reading app for iOS created by Alin Armstrongrewards users with small amounts of bitcoin for maintaining a daily habit of reading Scripture, in an example of how even religious practice is being absorbed into the digital economy of rewards, streaks and subscriptions.
At first glance, Orange Bible looks like a Bible reading app similar to many others. It uses two versions of the Bible in the public domain and offers common features in this type of tools: research, marking passages, notes, reading plans, and prayer journal.
O distinctive element is financial. Users start a reading plan and accumulate satoshisthe smallest unit of a bitcoin, for following a daily routine. Rewards can increase as consecutive day streaks unlock higher tiers.
“What distinguishes Orange Bible from all other Bible reading apps is its unique reward structure. You don’t get a badge or a digital sequence. Earn real bitcoin”, Armstrong explained to .
The application is freebut the “full service” is reserved for a premium subscription of $8.99 per month. Subscribers receive triple the bitcoin rewards for each reading session and have access to Bible Study Assistant, described as an “artificially intelligent Bible study assistant” capable of answer questions about versessummarize conversations and save these summaries in a personal comment.
Armstrong built the application from a existing nicheat the intersection between online Christian communities and bitcoin advocates.
When he became interested in cryptocurrency in 2020, he was surprised to find what he described as “a rich and vibrant community of Christian bitcoinersThe success of his self-published book, which he says has sold more than 10,000 copies in the last three years, would have reinforced that conviction.
Armstrong maintains that technology itself can bring people closer to faith. He argues that there are users who “arrive for Bitcoin and leave Christians”, as he considers that the fixed and verifiable rules of currency confront them with objective truth, in a world he describes as made of “fake money, fake food, fake news, fake everything”.
From your perspectivebitcoin is not only close to Christian culture: is based on your values. “The principles that Scripture establishes about money—honest weights, lack of depreciation, a fair measure (Proverbs 11:1)—are exactly the principles codified in the protocol,” he said.
“Two thousand years of Christian economic thought, written in code. I call Bitcoin the truth machine, because all truth is God’s truth”.
