Later this year, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft should make official

At today's market value, the seized Bitcoins are work over $18 million (13.2 million), but there was a time, a few months back, when the same stack of BTC was worth closer to $38 million (27.86 million). As the publication points out, the sum is quite small compared to the current Bitcoin market cap, which stands at over $7.8 billion (5.72 billion). In fact, the $18 million worth of Bitcoins are only about 85 percent of the total trading completed in the past 24 hours.The auction is scheduled to take place on June 27 over a 12-hour time period. The nearly 30,000 coins are split into nine blocks of 3,000 BTC, dubbed Series A, and another block with the rest of the coins, dubbed Series B. Participants must make a $200,000(147,000) deposit from a bank in the United States to be accepted for the auction.Windows Phone 8.1 GDR1 Already Dogfooded at Microsoft – Report. Later this year, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft should make official a new flavor of the Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, and it seems that it is currently in the latest stages of testing with it.The new platform iteration is expected to arrive on devices as Windows Phone 8.1 GDR1, which will follow the naming scheme that Microsoft used for the WP8 updates.Apparently, the company has already started dogfooding the new OS iteration to its employees, which suggests that it is actually close to the final testing stage, as Neowin notes in a recent article.No specific info on when the new platform update might arrive on devices has been provided as of now, yet previous reports on the matter suggested that we might see Microsoft pushing it out before the end of the summer.The one thing that remains to be seen is whether the update will arrive on devices with the GDR (General Distribution Release) name attached to it, just as it happened with Windows Phone 8 last year.Apparently, Microsoft is referring to the new software version using this term internally, but chances are that it will change its name when making it available to users out there.Of course, no official confirmation on the matter has been provided as of now, but chances http://www.futcoinsteam.com ; are that Microsoft will unveil some details on the matter soon, most probably after the Windows Phone 8.1 OS iteration starts arriving on existing devices.For those out of the loop, we should note that the company unveiled the platform back in April, and that it also made it available for download as a Developer Preview starting the middle of the month.At the time, the software giant announced that all Windows Phone 8 handsets out there would receive the update to WP8.1, but did not provide specific details on when that should happen.However, some of the latest rumors on the matter suggested that Microsoft would be ready to make the platform upgrade available for users before the end of this month.