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Homepage > News > Editorial > A time for truth: Bitcoin and the future we must build April 30 is National Honesty Day, a holiday quietly created in the early 1990s by M. Hirsh Goldberg, a former press secretary for the state of Maryland. After writing The Book of Lies, Goldberg realized that while April Fools’ Day is widely celebrated with pranks and deception, there was no cultural counterweight. No day reserved for honesty, integrity, and straightforward communication. So he chose the final day of April, a symbolic close to a month that begins with trickery to honor truth, transparency, and trustworthiness. It’s not a federal holiday. You won’t see parades or sales events. But maybe it should be more than a curiosity on the calendar. Maybe we need Honesty Day more than ever before. Why? Because in a world increasingly built on narratives instead of facts, on perception instead of proof, and rhetoric over reality, the very idea of honesty has become radical. And if there’s any tool designed for an era desperate for verifiable truth, it’s the BSV blockchain. BSV: Designed for permanent, verifiable truth Bitcoin was always capable of being more than just a payment network. It is also a payment network bootstrapped as a digital cash system, but that is just the baseline function that enables so much more! It’s a global ledger, or a global database, a universal distributed log of critical records that can be stored immutably, transparently, and without centralized custodians who might later manipulate the facts. I previously wrote about this in “An Inconvenient Weather App,” where I explored how WeatherSV could change the climate debate forever. By recording climate data on-chain, permanently, and publicly, it would become impossible to retroactively alter or reframe historical weather records to suit political agendas. There…

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