A source can establish a theory, protocol fact, technical context, or planning principle. It cannot establish a local outcome outside its scope.
Jason P. Lowery
Role: Primary source for the attributed power-projection theory.
Boundary: A novel theory and hypothesis-generating work, not proof of an urban outcome.
Satoshi Nakamoto
Role: Primary protocol source for hash-based proof of work and transaction ordering.
Boundary: Does not establish land, housing, grid, resilience, or public-policy effects.
Cynthia Dwork and Moni Naor
Role: Foundational processing-cost reference.
Boundary: Technical background, not evidence for a municipal project.
Adam Back
Role: Technical antecedent cited by the Bitcoin white paper.
Boundary: Technical background, not evidence for a local energy or land-use outcome.
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Role: Public energy-demand reference used to discipline infrastructure claims.
Boundary: National context does not establish the performance of a specific grid or project.
Committee on the Global Financial System
Role: Reference for the multiple drivers of property prices.
Boundary: Does not isolate a local Bitcoin effect or a single measurable monetary premium.
Jason P. Lowery
Role: Original November 1, 2021 conceptual graphic supplied as an owner reference.
Boundary: Reference and attribution only. The supplied image is not republished by Civic Bitcoin.
Congress for the New Urbanism
Role: Primary source for the region; neighborhood, district, and corridor; and block, street, and building scales.
Boundary: Planning reference. CNU text and imagery are not reproduced beyond attributed description.
Civic Bitcoin develops the framework. Intelligence Desk tests local claims against the public record. Use Intelligence Desk when the work turns on a current asset, governing instrument, meeting, vote, approval, market event, or public decision.