Tue. 02/08 - Wine Bricks To The Rescue + Decoding Dickens & Digital Dollars

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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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 ExpressVPN, ExpressVPN.com/kottke for an extra 3 months FREE on a one-year package 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.9	tuesday february 8th 2022 i'm jackson bird today is a national digital currency coming to the u.s and what
0:36.9	would that look like?
0:38.3	Plus, coders have teamed up with scholars of British literature to decode Charles Dickens' secret notes.
0:45.8	And the very clever wine bricks from the Prohibition era that helped keep the wine industry afloat.
0:53.2	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
0:59.0	William Jennings Bryan is probably rolling over in his grave. Forget the gold standard,
1:04.9	the U.S. Federal Reserve is considering adopting a digital dollar. Now, you may have heard rumblings about this because last month,
1:12.9	the Federal Reserve put out a long-awaited paper considering the pros and cons of a digital
1:18.6	currency, but stopped short of taking a position on one way or the other. Now, it's not unprecedented.
1:25.4	China started a trial of a digital currency in January of 2020,
1:29.6	and India announced plans to do the same, but what exactly is a national digital currency?
1:35.9	How would it work? Now, in terms of user experience, it would probably be like using
1:40.4	cash app or Venmo, but the money would be issued as digital cash or a central bank
1:46.0	digital currency or CBDC by the U.S. Mint just like they print bills and mint coins.
1:52.7	What makes a digital dollar different, for one, is the removal of the middleman, so to speak,
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