Living on One Bitcoin: A One-Year Experiment in Money, Time and Stewardship

By Fr. Mark Hamlet

Living on One Bitcoin
A One-Year Experiment in Money, Time, and Stewardship

One Life -- Two Currencies

What happens when you stop measuring life in dollars? Can we escape inflation?
Bitcoin has a way of challenging long-held assumptions about money, saving, and value.

In 2025, Fr. Mark Hamlet, a Catholic priest, set aside one Bitcoin and used it to fund an entire year of ordinary living-groceries, travel, gifts, and daily expenses-while carefully tracking every transaction in both dollars and Bitcoin. He stopped using dollars.

The life itself did not change.
Only the measurement did.

By the end of the year, the same life revealed three different dollar costs-depending on the monetary system used to measure it.

This book is not about predicting markets or offering financial advice.

It is a book about hope.
It is a firsthand account of a simple but profound experiment:

What if money is not just currency, but a way of carrying the value of our time into the future?

Blending personal experience, economic insight, and a deep understanding of faith and stewardship, Living on One Bitcoin invites readers to reconsider how they save, spend, and measure the value of their lives.
Because in the end, the question is not only what we earn or spend-
but what we are truly preserving.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GZLQ39TD
• ISBN13: 9798195332358
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"