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‘I want her to choose the best strategy’: My wife’s Social Security is just $900. Should she claim spousal benefit at 62?

“She was a teacher at a school district, so didn’t put much into Social Security.”

‘I unexpectedly came into some money’: Is putting $20,000 into CDs a smart move?

“I want to make the process as straightforward as possible for my beneficiaries to access the funds.”

Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño-based foods in 26 states amid ongoing salmonella outbreak

The farming giant said this includes salsas, guacamole and pimento cheese dips.

Is $1 million enough for a household to retire? The answer keeps changing.

The Moneyist: “Some readers — and couples — would be grateful to retire on half that amount.”

The stocks of these ‘toll takers’ could be the AI boom’s next big winners

The next boom could be in stocks of companies collecting recurring revenue from AI workloads.

Barrick’s stock slides after dispute settlement sets the scene for IPO of mining company’s gold assets

Mining giant Barrick announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with gold-mining company Newmont to combine some of their mines — helping to support an initial public offering of Barrick’s North American gold assets by the end of the year.

This is the ZIP Code with the hottest housing market in the country right now

Today’s residential real-estate market is not for the weak, observes one buyer in what Realtor.com is calling America’s hottest ZIP Code.

Bitdeer increased Bitcoin mining output by nearly fivefold in Q2

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-top-mining-hardware-to-expect-in-russia.jpg" alt="Bitdeer increased Bitcoin mining output by nearly fivefold in Q2" class="type:primaryImage">Bitdeer mined 2,694 BTC in Q2, but ended the quarter holding just 150 BTC after liquidating its treasury earlier this year.

Strategy turns 1,690 BTC into $108.6M STRC buyback

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-how-strategyb-turned-k-into-m-using-a-high-risk-high-precision-strategy-2.jpg" alt="Strategy turns 1,690 BTC into $108.6M STRC buyback" class="type:primaryImage">Strategy sold 1,690 Bitcoin to repurchase STRC shares as its US dollar reserve rose to $4.65 billion and its Bitcoin holdings fell to 840,447 BTC.

Tokenized RWA surge to $4T may push LINK to $200 by end-2030: Standard Chartered

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-bitcoin-revolution-3.jpg" alt="Tokenized RWA surge to $4T may push LINK to $200 by end-2030: Standard Chartered" class="type:primaryImage">The LINK token may see a 25-fold increase to $200 by the end of 2030, as the growing real world asset market increases demand for the industry’s largest oracle services provider, according to Standard Chartered.

Markets flip for Fed rate-hike pause into CPI: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-bitcoin-could-be-the-next-big-inflation-hedge.png" alt="Markets flip for Fed rate-hike pause into CPI: Five things to know in Bitcoin this week" class="type:primaryImage">Bitcoin spiked to a new August high into Sunday’s weekly close as market participants turned their attention to the next US inflation reports.

H100 becomes Europe’s No. 2 Bitcoin treasury after 2,455 BTC deal

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-heres-how-chamber-of-digital-commerce-wants-to-make-crypto-market-great2.jpg" alt="H100 becomes Europe’s No. 2 Bitcoin treasury after 2,455 BTC deal" class="type:primaryImage">Sweden’s H100 more than tripled its Bitcoin holdings to 3,506 BTC after completing an acquisition involving 2,455 BTC.

Berkshire Hathaway finally started spending its nearly $400 billion in cash — on one stock it knows very well

Berkshire is buying its own stock after years of building up a cash pile. Not everyone is excited.

UK regulators to prepare tokenized gold framework: Report

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-uk-and-crypto-fca.jpg" alt="UK regulators to prepare tokenized gold framework: Report" class="type:primaryImage">The UK’s FCA is reportedly preparing a regulatory framework for tokenized gold and how these products may be used as collateral assets in wholesale markets.

Bitcoin Red Team founder turns to Chinese AI: ‘It absolutely guts me’

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/ai-gut.jpg" alt="Bitcoin Red Team founder turns to Chinese AI: ‘It absolutely guts me’" class="type:primaryImage">Bitcoin Red Team has now found 1,288 critical and high-level vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin ecosystem as of Saturday.

Australia orders Cryptolink Bitcoin ATMs offline over ‘basic reporting’ failures

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/atm.jpg" alt="Australia orders Cryptolink Bitcoin ATMs offline over ‘basic reporting’ failures" class="type:primaryImage">Australia’s financial watchdog has suspended Cryptolink’s registration for three months, adding to a crackdown that previously saw the Bitcoin ATM operator fined $56,340.

Crypto’s first quantum attack will look like unexplained breach: Quantus founder

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/quantum.jpg" alt="Crypto’s first quantum attack will look like unexplained breach: Quantus founder" class="type:primaryImage">Bad actors with access to a cryptography-breaking quantum computer probably won’t try to announce it to the world by hacking Satoshi Nakamoto’s high-profile Bitcoin wallets, crypto executives say.

U.S. stock futures flat as investors await inflation data, grapple with more Iran uncertainty

U.S. stock-index futures were little changed on Sunday, after new demands from Iran raised fresh doubts about the Strait of Hormuz reopening anytime soon and as investors await key inflation data later this week.

BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hodlers" alt="BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9" class="type:primaryImage">BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No.

Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’

<img src="https://s3-images.ctmedia.io/media/article-covers/hi-crypto-mad-max-fury-road.jpg" alt="Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’" class="type:primaryImage">Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national security one.