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The bitcoin price remains down today, with its 0.5% gain in the past 24 hours cancelled out by a 5% drop in a week and 10% fall in a month. However, it has rebounded by nearly 4.8% since reaching a 24-hour low of $18,262 yesterday, which it did in the wake of the Federal Reserve bumping interest rates in the US by 0.75%.

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Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped by more than 6 per cent this week and has failed to hold support at $22,000 after successfully breaching $22,600 mid-week. BTC continues to consolidate in the range of $19,400-20.100 which has held as support for months now. If stocks recover their losses next week, there is a likelihood of BTC gaining back $22,000. This week also scripted an historic day for the crypto world as Ethereum (ETH) completed its Merge, meaning the network will no longer rely on a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism. Ethereum, the world’s second most valuable crypto, has completed its massive software upgrade with promises of massive environmental benefits. The Merge is set to reduce Ethereum’s energy consumption by nearly 99 per cent. ETH, post the Merge, has dropped nearly 18 per cent this week as a sell-off event ensured. This can be attributed to short-term traders who bought ETH leading up to the event to gain on the positive momentum and to acquire new forked tokens. Once their motives were established, they sold their positions. Total crypto market cap is now below $1 trillion.

Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum's native token, Ether (ETH), started the week on a depressive note as investors braced themselves for a flurry of rate hike decisions from central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of England.

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The funeral on Monday of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will see the biggest gathering of royalty this century - perhaps ever - in London. 

Now, the open source code has been made available on GitHub, allowing for the testing of basic token management use cases, including minting, burning and transferring ERC-20 tokens.In addition to deploying the appropriate smart contracts and access controls, the Norges Bank sandbox includes a custom frontend and network monitoring tools.The sandbox network sits behind basic authentication and is only accessible by users with the appropriate credentials, meaning transactions are private.Nahmii says more complex and interesting use cases, such as batch payments, security tokens and bridges will soon follow.

There's a new Bitcoin (BTC) energy FUD in town: noise. In Sortland, a Norwegian municipality, locals are waging war on Bitcoin miners to thwart further BTC mining developments. Their latest protest against proof-of-work (PoW) mining is that it's loud. 

The difficulty of mining Bitcoin (BTC) rose by 3.45% on Tuesday, marking the fourth consecutive increase in difficulty for the network.

In a majorannouncement, the central bank of Norway, Norges Bank, has said that the source code for its central bank digital currency (CBDC) sandbox is now publicly available.

The central bank of Norway has hit a major milestone in digital currency efforts, releasing the open source code for the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) sandbox.

Ursula von der Leyen has unveiled a series of long-awaited proposals to tackle the EU's worsening energy crisis and curb the soaring bills that are putting European households and companies under financial stress.

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Energy bills in the UK will leap by 80% this winter, the country's energy regulator Ofgem announced today, as the Ukraine war continues to drive up prices.  

 

Norway's exports reached a record in July, driven mainly by natural gas prices that have soared since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is refusing to back growing calls for an EU-wide ban on giving tourist visas to Russians. 

Norwegian authorities have put down a walrus that gained international notoriety for its mischievous activities in Oslo. 

Ethereum, the second-biggest cryptocurrency by market value, just passed its final test before it pushes ahead with its Merge upgrade that it says will make it greener and therefore make it more competitive with Bitcoin.

A beluga whale stranded in France's River Seine has died after a failed rescue mission.