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…
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