jessetree

"A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit." — Isaiah 11:1

An open-source reader for Bible translations posted to Bitcoin via the Bitcoin Schema protocol.

Every verse is an on-chain transaction. The reader is a window onto the canonical tree — the dominant branch chosen per (translation, book, chapter, verse) across a forest of historical posting attempts. The discarded branches remain on-chain as an audit trail; the canonical tree is what you read.

Live: jessetree.xyz (coming soon)

What's in the tree

Eleven translations, 320,494 verses, all posted on mainnet under the peck.cross app tag:

• Hebrew Tanakh (he_wlc — Westminster Leningrad Codex)
• Greek New Testament (grc_nt)
• English (KJV, ASV, WEB, BBE)
• Norwegian (1930)
• …and more

The metaphor

In the medieval Christian tradition, a Jesse Tree is a tree hung with ornaments representing biblical figures leading to Christ. Each ornament is a story, a prophecy, a name.

On jessetree, each ornament is a Bitcoin transaction. Verifiable, immutable, hung permanently on the tree. You can inspect the origin, the history, the lineage of every verse — because each one has a txid.

Stack

• SvelteKit (SSR) + Tailwind Typography
• PostgreSQL (canonical_tree table) for clean traversal
• Fallback to peck-reader HTTP API for forkers without DB access
• Cloud Run deploy, Cloudflare front

Data source

Two backends, selected via JESSETREE_DATA_SOURCE:

• postgres — direct SQL against peck_db (requires Cloud SQL proxy or peck-to dev env)
• overlay / peck-reader — HTTP against a public read-only API (anyone can fork and run); production uses overlay against overlay.peck.to (the standalone peck-reader service was retired 2026-09-04)

Running locally

cp .env.example .env
# edit .env — set either Postgres creds or PECK_READER_URL
npm install
npm run dev

Contributing

MIT licensed. PRs welcome for:

• Additional translations (post on-chain under peck.cross, then add to the reader)
• UX improvements for long-form reading
• Cross-reference support (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge seed, etc.)
• Accessibility

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Source: https://github.com/kryp2/jessetree

The biblical texts themselves are public domain. The code is free. The tree grows.