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⏰️Got the Time Tick, Tick, Tickin' In My Head

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The CLARITY Act Stalls: When Banking Regulations Meet Digital Currency Theater The CLARITY Act sits in congressional purgatory, and if you squint hard enough, you can almost see the real issue beneath all the regulatory posturing. This isn't really about innovation or consumer protection. It's about who gets to profit from your money sitting still. Here's the uncomfortable question nobody wants to answer: Why can't PayPal pay you 5% monthly interest on your balance? Seriously. Not 5% annually —let's be honest about what we're actually discussing here. But even reasonable returns on digital currency holdings run headfirst into a regulatory framework designed to protect banking monopolies that have spent decades convincing us that 0.01% savings rates are somehow the natural order of things. Stablecoins represent a genuinely new revenue stream, and they're essential infrastructure for smart contracts . That's not hype —it's just mechanica...

🌾Tuesday's Gone With the Wind 🍃

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Taraxa (TARA): Beyond Faucets and Into the Future of DeFi Pop Culture Most people who’ve heard of TARA , the utility token behind the Taraxa Network, likely know it from FaucetPay , where it circulates alongside a few other digital currencies. But if you visit taraxa.io , you’ll quickly realize that TARA is part of a much larger vision. While it’s easy to assume FaucetPay is quietly behind every micro-token it hosts, that doesn’t appear to be the case here. Taraxa’s platform makes a distinct pitch for building decentralized infrastructure— especially real-world, verifiable reputation systems —something FaucetPay doesn’t necessarily specialize in. At the heart of Taraxa’s mission is a problem every digital native will recognize: miscommunication and unverifiable information in day-to-day interactions, both online and off. They describe the platform as a place where audit logging (in simple terms, timestamped digital records of who said or did what) becomes public, tamper-p...