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Tue. 02/08 - Wine Bricks To The Rescue + Decoding Dickens & Digital Dollars
Is a national digital currency coming to the US? And what would that look like? Plus, coders have teamed up with scholars of British literature to decode Charles Dickens’s secret notes. And the very clever wine bricks from the Prohibition Era that helped keep the wine industry afloat.
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The US is debating whether to adopt a digital dollar (NPR)
A US Digital Dollar Should Serve the Public, Not Banks (Bloomberg)
Fed releases long-awaited study on a digital dollar but doesn't take a position yet on creating one (CNBC)
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Feedback Form (Federal Reserve Board)
Decoding Dickens’s Secret Notes to Himself, One Symbol at a Time (NY Times)
Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did (The Guardian) Dickens Code
How Wine Bricks Saved The US Wine Industry During Prohibition (Vinepair)
CDC launches wastewater tool to help show COVID-19 trends (The Verge) CDC COVID Data Tracker Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter
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Is a national digital currency coming to the US? And what would that look like? Plus, coders have teamed up with scholars of British literature to decode Charles Dickens’s secret notes. And the very clever wine bricks from the Prohibition Era that helped keep the wine industry afloat.
Sponsor:
- Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews
Links:
The US is debating whether to adopt a digital dollar (NPR)
A US Digital Dollar Should Serve the Public, Not Banks (Bloomberg)
Fed releases long-awaited study on a digital dollar but doesn't take a position yet on creating one (CNBC)
Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Feedback Form (Federal Reserve Board)
Decoding Dickens’s Secret Notes to Himself, One Symbol at a Time (NY Times)
Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did (The Guardian) Dickens Code
How Wine Bricks Saved The US Wine Industry During Prohibition (Vinepair)
CDC launches wastewater tool to help show COVID-19 trends (The Verge) CDC COVID Data Tracker Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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