SOURCE FACT
A statement directly supported by an identified record, with its date and scope preserved.
Evidence method
How Civic Bitcoin reaches a finding
The framework can sharpen a question. Only evidence can support a local conclusion.
01
Frame
State the asset, decision, affected parties, and question without assuming the answer.
02
Source
Prefer direct public records and primary technical sources; preserve stable identifiers and dates.
03
Classify
Separate source fact, protocol fact, theory, hypothesis, interpretation, finding, and gap.
04
Test
Apply the relevant SUF-001 tests and identify the counterfactual and local externalities.
05
Verify
Reproduce calculations, reconcile conflicting records, and keep missing evidence visible.
06
Publish
State the evidence cut, correction path, uncertainty, and what the record cannot establish.
Binding separation
01 · Theory
Attribute Lowery's power-projection proposition to Lowery and label it as theory.
02 · Testable urban hypothesis
State the mechanism, counterfactual, affected parties, and evidence that could disprove the proposition.
03 · Verified local finding
Publish a local conclusion only when project-, parcel-, grid-, or jurisdiction-specific evidence supports it.
Evidence states
Unknown is a valid result
PROTOCOL FACT
A technical statement established by the Bitcoin protocol source; it does not establish a civic outcome.
THEORY
An attributed explanatory proposition, including Lowery's power-projection theory.
HYPOTHESIS
A mechanism that identifies a counterfactual and evidence capable of disproving it.
VERIFIED LOCAL FINDING
A project-, parcel-, grid-, or jurisdiction-specific conclusion supported by local evidence.
INTERPRETATION
Civic Bitcoin's reading of verified facts, labeled as interpretation rather than record fact.
GAP
Required evidence is missing, conflicting, stale, or too broad to support a conclusion.
NOT APPLICABLE
The test does not apply to the filed program or question; no substitute score is forced.
Publication discipline
- — Do not convert Lowery's theory into a verified local claim.
- — Do not claim that Bitcoin removes the need for law, physical infrastructure, or territorial defense.
- — Do not claim a housing-affordability or land-price effect without longitudinal local evidence and a stated counterfactual.
- — Do not approve proof-of-work infrastructure from ideology alone.
- — Do not treat energy consumption as automatically wasteful or automatically beneficial.
- — Preserve not-applicable, unknown, and evidence-gap states instead of forcing a score.
Division of responsibility
Civic Bitcoin maintains the Bitcoin Urbanism doctrine, infrastructure and treasury frameworks, and Civic Asset Dossiers. Intelligence Desk maintains current monitored public-record changes and applied Smart Urbanism assessments. A framework source is never counted as a local event.
Corrections and dates
Every applied publication should state an event date, evidence cut, publication date, evidence state, source locator, and correction path. Dated publications remain part of the historical record; current monitored changes belong at Intelligence Desk.