Okay, hi everyone. We are here at the Bitcoin MENA in Abu Dhabi, and this is actually the first time we're running a session which is going to be live from one of the Bitcoin events that we're going to be at. And what's exciting, I think, about this is it's the first time we're going to be going direct to X, and it's also on an ongoing basis, something that we're going to be doing all the way through next year. Very happy to have a board that has joined us that is not just Bitcoin first, but also is communication first. So we are going to be providing communication all the way through the year as we go as well. I've got here actually a couple of our board members that have been here for the last couple of days with us too.
We just had Eric Trump on the stage saying that he's very sure Bitcoin is going to go to a million. We've had CZ here from Binance saying that already there are sovereign funds that are buying into Bitcoin here in the Middle East. We've had incredible speakers here from Saifedean, who now is one of our courses on our new Bitcoin Academy, who wrote the Bitcoin Standard that inspired Michael Saylor and many others into Bitcoin in the first place. We've been meeting up with incredible people. Mark Moss has been here. We've been talking about his programs that he's been running. I'm going to bring on Suraj Naik and Gary Wilde, who are both our directors on our Board, just to share a bit about their experience here. Then from there, we're going to jump into some of the updates for Genius.
Hey, Suraj, how are you?
Hey, Roger. I'm good. I'm here with Gary, and we're actually at the Genius Zone, so it's pretty amazing to see in the zone here people coming on and really learning about us being the leading education company within this space. I had the opportunity to listen to Eric, and also what's really like he gave an insight on what's coming up and how even the White House is sort of preparing for it. He didn't go into much detail with that, but it's all very positive, and how things are changing, so it makes it really wonderful how we are in the right direction we're going as well. Gary.
Yeah, it's fantastic to be here. We can see clearly we are thousands of people here at Bitcoin MENA in Abu Dhabi, and the energy is electric. Hitting $100,000 for Bitcoin has really created a whole new spark in the arena, and we can see the Bitcoin revolution is inevitable now, and it's wonderful for Genius Group to be right at the forefront of this incredible movement.
Yeah, thanks, Gary, for that. And Roger, we met some of our past sort of investors here as well, and the interest has been pretty amazing of people coming here. What do you see as some of the exciting opportunities that we have from this event?
One of the biggest ones is that the number of CEOs who are here who are now starting up Bitcoin treasuries, and this comes to our Bitcoin strategy itself. Spending time with Simon Gerovich, who basically really got this tool going in Asia with his company Metaplanet, and he gave some really, really good advice on where things are at. I'm going to share in a moment for everyone listening why that was a big part of our vote at the Board level to actually even take this Bitcoin treasury strategy. It actually came from Metaplanet. I'm going to explain why in a moment. Just spending time with him and his team was fantastic, but also really interesting.
We've had the very first Bitcoin treasury company in Europe, which is called The Blockchain Group, and meeting up the head of Blockchain and the co-CEO there, Alexandre Lasserre, spending time on what's happening there, and then that already becoming a partnership, which I'll be sharing about on this call too, and then also meeting up with the team that also just made the news today, Harsh Bharwani, who set up Jetking, which is an education company in India, and that's the first Bitcoin treasury company in India as well, so we're seeing this grow very quickly, and I see this being the second phase in a four-phase growth of Bitcoin treasuries, where obviously the very first phase of Bitcoin investing was retail investors and all of the maximalists who came in on the early days. Like phase two is definitely what's happening now, which is corporations embracing Bitcoin.
And phase three is already pretty much like started, which is sovereign Bitcoins, where you've got nation-states and even potentially like states in America, sovereign funds that all now are getting into Bitcoin as well. And the fourth one, which we'll talk about on another call, is when it really takes off, which is when AI, AI agents, when robots, when they basically also adopt their own currency, which is going to happen. When you've got your Tesla Bot and that Tesla Bot is going to be going down the street and buying and working with other bots, et cetera, they are all going to be using a currency, and for sure it's going to be a digital currency, and it's going to be backed by Bitcoin.
So as that all happens, that's another whole economy that's going to be growing, and that was one of the conversations which we were having also with the speakers here too. And let me bring this straight to, I think, one of the most important key perspectives for everyone who's been following the journey that we've been going on in Genius, where we started about a month ago our Bitcoin strategy. And we are now at 194 Bitcoin. I mean, we stated that we wanted to get to 1,000 because any company that has 1,000 Bitcoin, of which there's still only around 20 in the world, which is an incredible small number. We're really early days here.
But 1,000 Bitcoin, once Bitcoin hits a million, which obviously Eric Trump believes it is, and many others believe it will as well, then anyone who has that is going to have a billion-dollar portfolio. So that really does mean that even small caps, public companies can actually build out a billion-dollar portfolio moving forward, where you are not, as Michael Saylor says, basically investing in toxic assets or having in your balance sheet the kind of assets that are going to be bleeding out, but instead you're going to have something that's going to be building in value. That's basically the goal of 1,000. So the first thing is just sharing that when we first looked at Metaplanet, the reason that we thought that was a better proxy, a better view of where we could go with Genius than a company like MicroStrategy.
When I first met Michael Saylor back in April, and he was saying, this is the plan of how you need to go into a billion-dollar business. Obviously he's been at this for many years. In the case of Metaplanet, which is a Japanese company, they only started eight months ago. So when I was talking through with Simon his plan, when they decided to be going down this route, it was also inspired by MicroStrategy. Their market cap was only at around $15 million at the time, which frankly, when we also shared our strategy, we were sitting at around about the same as well. And they've gone from $15 million to now $640 million. They've hit the 1,000 Bitcoin. They just did that three weeks ago. So they hit the same target that we want to hit.
They went from $15 million to $640 million, which is a 40x growth in their market cap by just consistently buying Bitcoin over time, and now they are the highest performing of any public company in Japan and really taken a very similar pathway to MicroStrategy, but on the Japanese stock market, and their share price has gone from JPY 300 up to JPY 2,600. So again, like a 10x growth in their share price as well, and what we were doing as we actually talked through their plan and how they did it, what we saw was that while we have the same plan, we already are at close to 200 Bitcoin. It took them a total of over three months to get to where we've got to in one month, so we are well ahead of the metric that we're following at the moment, which is their playbook.
If we continue at that rate, it would mean that by the time we get to Bitcoin Vegas, where we are sponsoring the Whale Lounge and where we're the title sponsors of the stage for the VIPs there, then we're already going to have hit the same number that they hit in eight months. That first thing I think is really important for us to look at metrics and see how that's growing. We are going to be sharing with our investors a metric that MicroStrategy that Simon was talking a lot about as well, which is BTC Yield. When we share our BTC Yield, we've already calculated what it is. I think people are going to be pretty amazed at what that is because it's outperforming what we see any of the other larger companies doing and even Metaplanet itself.
At the moment, we are massively undervalued on our market cap compared to our Bitcoin treasury, compared to any of these other companies out there. I think that's just because it's early days and we're just the first month in. But we're going to consistently grow. We've been at $2 million of new Bitcoin every single week at the moment. We're already sitting on unrealized gains of several million dollars on our Bitcoin treasury as well, all within one month. That's the first thing, which I think is really important. Would love to just send it back to you, Suraj, just in terms of your viewpoint, because you've been seeing this from the inside on the Board about the way that we're building out the Bitcoin strategy compared to other companies out there that obviously are following the same strategy as well.
Yeah, thanks, Roger, and great insights over there as well. I think what's really shown here is when we've been meeting a lot of the clients and the companies that are coming in here, the strategy that we've been following. And first of all, people who are like the Metaplanet guys and everyone, and you've been hearing about Michael Saylor and talking about the early adopters, I think the strategy that we have as early adopters has really made a big difference. And when we had like the Sheikh Zayed who had visited our booth as well, and along with that, some of the leaders from this space. And when they came in, they were like, yeah, you guys are like the, we need to educate a lot of people into the space as well.
So the strategy that we have alongside the education part and the investor part really makes a big difference where we first of all have this jump through this entire investing route where we acquired or bought these Bitcoins. But from the education point of view, educating everyone, which has been the biggest theme, I would say, at the conference as well, which then encourages people to get into this space. I would imagine this conference itself to be double or triple the size by the time it happens next year. At the same time where we go, we've got some announcements to make as well, and I'll come back to you on those. But when we go to any of the other conferences, this momentum just seems to be going.
And what we heard from Eric, that earlier the thing was that the government and people at power were not really coming out so openly talking about it, but the fact that people are now doing that, and we are hearing from, say, the Trump family itself and the leaders from that side making it very clear like that's part of their agenda. In fact, one thing he said is they had in the press room in the White House earlier. There were all these traditional media that were taking up the space. And for the first time, there was a Bitcoin Magazine which was doing the space as well and how the new media and the way things are going. And even like what we're doing here with the spaces has far more reach than what we're seeing on the traditional media side. So the momentum is all there.
The fact that we are like the number one, we're probably the only education company here who's sharing our insights in this is really incredible. I'd like to get Gary's view here as well, because Gary, we attended some of the sessions together. What has been your insights?
Yeah, look, it's very clear that there is a deficit in the market in terms of understanding and awareness of Bitcoin. Yet there's this volcano that's about to blow, and there's going to be, as people start to wake up to the power of Bitcoin and how important it is as part of your corporate strategy, people are going to be in a deficit of learning, and they really need to get access to top quality learning to get themselves up to speed very quickly. So Genius Group is really leading the charge on that front, curating the best of the best in the world.
Yeah, totally, Gary. And Roger, we had like a few concepts space here where.
I think we've lost Suraj at the moment. Can you still hear Suraj, or is he gone?
No, we're still here. Yeah, yeah, I think you can hear us. I'm still here. Roger, can you hear me fine?
Okay, I think I've.
Can you hear me fine?
I'm just checking out if anyone can hear me right now. Are you able to? Can you hear me?
Oh, I can hear you.
Can you hear me? Okay, sorry. Yeah, for some reason my sound went off. I don't know why. But one thing I want to just share around this whole picture of why we're even at this conference. This is more to do than just basically the fact that we want to provide education, which is a big part of this. It's also that the number of Bitcoiners that actually want to invest in companies that are not just Bitcoin treasury companies, but then are adding value on top of that. That's one of the things that Michael Saylor says.
He said this to Microsoft, which is, look, if you know that you can be investing in something that's going to be growing 50%-60% a year, and that's obviously Bitcoin, and on top of that, you can then add your own value. Well, that's the only thing that can really outperform Bitcoin, which is a public company that has the ability to buy Bitcoin and then do more, and that's obviously where the education part of what we're doing is coming in as well. Just before I get into the announcements of what's happening on that side and how we are looking at 2025, I just want to point out something that became very obvious to us while we're here as well, which is what's unique about Genius compared to all the other companies that are becoming Bitcoin treasury companies right now.
The first one is all the Bitcoin treasury companies that we have seen, including Metaplanet, including Jetking in India, where they're on an exchange which has not got the same liquidity as you have got on the New York Stock Exchange. Being an NYSE-listed company out here in the Middle East or in Asia is a huge advantage because it gives us the opportunity to give the investors here the ability to have that liquidity from our stock being traded in New York. Now, what's really important about that is if we're in the U.S., we're nothing different from all the other small caps that investors in America could invest in.
But by us actually bringing all the investors in all the places we're now going to who already believe in the concept of Bitcoin towards basically our company, that benefits not just them, it also benefits all of our investors in the U.S. as well. The second thing is being a Singapore-based company, which is where we have our treasury. What that means is that we're actually trading our company in the U.S. We're then buying in Singapore. And Singapore is really one of the few countries in the world where you have got 0% capital gains tax already built in, not just to Bitcoin, but to everything. And so that also is very powerful to us because whereas if we're in Japan, if we're in Europe, even if we're in the U.S., right, we don't get that same benefit of having 0% capital gains tax.
So anyone investing within our company is getting that benefit also from our Bitcoin treasury. And the third thing, which is probably the biggest part, is that we've had many people come to us who are having financing deals. We've all seen the kind of deals that the other Bitcoin companies are now going for. And whatever is a smart way for you to actually generate the funds, if you can dilute the company in a way that's accretive, and that's the whole point of the BTC Yield. It's the ratio to which, while you might be diluting the company, how much more are you adding in Bitcoin such that the Bitcoin per share actually goes up. We at the moment have got a very high Bitcoin Yield, which we'll be sharing in our next release that we have when it comes to our next purchase.
But what we also have is a $150 million approved ATM, which was approved earlier this year. And on top of that, we have a $250 million shelf. So obviously, we'd only use that in a way that's accretive, but the fact that we have that gives us the ability to be able to achieve, without having to go out to look for more funding, our entire 1,000 Bitcoin plan. And all it is is just a matter of timing and a matter of us making sure we're getting Bitcoin at the right price. But this is not a matter of whether we'll achieve that. It's a matter of when. And I think that also is very important because in all the other cases, each one of them are very focused at how do they go about even finding the right financing options for them to be buying more Bitcoin.
And of course, what that also does is it opens up potential M&A possibilities because, of course, they all look at us and say, well, maybe we're better off all working together instead of us working separately. And so that's where a lot of these conversations are very, very interesting. So let me move on for a second. I just want to jump right into what we're now doing with both our faculty, with our plans going forward, as well as with the places that we already are going to be showing up all around the world right now. We have got a full schedule now for 2025.
So the first thing which we announced already basically in a 6K we're releasing and also right here is that we have a Genius Bitcoin Academy and a Genius Blockchain Academy, both of which are launching in January 2025 with micro courses, micro degrees, and certifications, which are what we build on a tech platform in terms of micro learning, all on the blockchain. I'm going to talk about that technology, about the blockchain as well. Before I get into that, the fact that we're signing up the top faculty members, and these are the top podcasters. They are the authors like Saifedean, for example. You would have seen last week we bought the ex-BitMEX Academy, which used to be the BitMEX Academy.
We were speaking here with the Binance Academy and the fact that they also are like, hey, is there a way to white label the different courses we have? And also talking with the different events, turning it all into courseware. So if you can't be here at BitMEX Academy, sorry, if you can't be here at the actual event that we're having here with Bitcoin MENA, you can still then take the courseware to learn the key things that are actually being shared here as well. We're going to go through how that all ends up earning you GEMs. It gets you certifications. But the key thing is how that's then attracted all of the other summits and all the other investor days where we are going to be title sponsor in many of these coming up.
So here's a list of the different deals that have happened within the last 48 hours here at Bitcoin MENA. The first thing is that we are now title sponsor of the FutureFi Summit, which is actually run by CoinDesk and is going to be in Hong Kong together with the Institutional Summit, which are all the institutional investors in Hong Kong, in China that are interested in Bitcoin that are all going to be there at Consensus Hong Kong. Consensus Hong Kong is the largest Bitcoin and blockchain event that's taking place in Asia next year in February.
So we are going to be there effectively very similar to what we've already announced here at Bitcoin MENA and also what we've already announced for the big Vegas event, which is Bitcoin 2025, where last year Donald Trump together with Michael Saylor and a whole series of other speakers basically were on stage. We will be sponsoring the Whale Lounge there and the VIP sessions. We're doing the same now for the FutureFi Summit and for Consensus Hong Kong. We also are going to be running a Bitcoin Investor Day at the Paris Blockchain Week. The Paris Blockchain Week has got over 10,000 people coming to it. It happens in April.
We had the head of the Paris Blockchain Week where we've got an amazing partnership working together with him, where we're actually going to be launching our Genius Awards, which are the awards that basically are going to be for leaders, for corporations that are embracing these new technologies, which includes AI, Bitcoin, blockchain for the future to actually make an impact in humanity. There's a VIP dinner that's going to be happening underneath the Louvre Pyramid. So it's one of the most spectacular spots in all of Europe, if not the world. That happens from April 7th to 10th. So we will also be there with our branding there as well. We have a great tagline. We'll get a photo of it here on our Genius Zone booth, which is "Genius isn't measured in IQ, it's measured in BTC.
It's all about those who really understand the future and how it's going to shape humanity, how all of us basically have an opportunity to be a part of that learning and be prepared for that going forward. There is a third. I'm going to show you four in total. There's a third sponsorship, which is the Bitcoin Adoption Summit, the Wealth Management Day, and the main conference for Consensus Toronto. Last year, Consensus's biggest event. Consensus is the event run by CoinDesk. In the same way that Bitcoin Magazine runs these Bitcoin conferences, CoinDesk runs the Consensus event. It was in Austin, Texas for the last couple of years. For the first time, it's going to be in Toronto. That's going to be on May 14th to 16th.
So there may be some of our investors in the U.S. or in Canada that can come and join us there. And in every one of these different places, we're not just basically sharing about our Bitcoin strategy. We're also sharing our Bitcoin Academy. And you're going to see the number of faculty members and the experts that are coming on board. That's going to continue to grow all the way through next year, as are the number of students that we have. And as many of you know, our student targets are in the millions. We believe we can actually onboard several million students into understanding Bitcoin. And of course, every one of those potentially becomes an investor of Bitcoin treasury companies as well. And the final one we have is the Deep Whale Lounge and Sessions Stage happening at Bitcoin Asia.
This is again run by Bitcoin Magazine and BTC Inc. That's going to be in Hong Kong, August 28th to 29th, 2025, so we're really looking at already the second half of next year and even into 2025 as we want to make sure we're at all of these different events and we're going to be meeting up and educating all of the investors as well as the many Bitcoin treasury companies we think are going to be joining us on this pathway as well, and I'm going to be sharing in the moment a little bit about how our Bitcoin Academy is going to be operating and how it adds value to our Bitcoin treasury, but just on that, I know that Suraj, you've been basically connecting with a lot of the same leaders who are all here from around the world.
You've seen just how much bigger these events are planned for next year. Do you want to share a bit with everyone who's listening in terms of what they're all saying about the size of their events and what's going to be happening?
Yeah, first of all, thanks for sharing that. And also how I can clearly see us being the title sponsor for these events helps our growth as well as visibility. A lot of the people who came on the, some of them already knew us, but knowing that there's this education arm behind it really helped the visibility side of the business as well as the growth side of the business as well.
We not just met people who were interested in buying Bitcoin or the treasury side, but also the miners and the blockchain people around, which then helps what we are building on our site, and Roger's going to announce shortly on that, how we are integrating the entire Web3 layer for that particular area as well. Roger, what will you say about that?
Yes, so on that point, we have been, just so everyone knows as well, we actually before making this change right now, at the time of the IPO, we had already built out a blockchain-based system for our GEMs. The idea of our GEMs is they stand for Genius Education Merits, and it's the philosophy that students shouldn't have to be going through education in order for them to end up with student debt. In fact, they should end up with student credit.
The idea that they could be earning and learning at the same time and not credits that expire the moment you do your high school diploma or credits that expire the moment you get your university degree, but credits you can actually spend within the platform, getting discounts and being able to qualify for high-level programs. The idea of the GEMs was that they'd be linked to the blockchain. We originally built it on the Ethereum platform. That was before there was the ability to do smart contracts on Lightning directly into Bitcoin. When we actually built all of that, we got comment back from the SEC at the time of the IPO that this all looks like crypto. We said, no, it's not crypto. It's blockchain-based credits. It's a utility token. That was not good enough.
We actually had to take all of it out of our prospectus at the time of the IPO, which is what we did at the time of the IPO. And we pretty much have gone for the last two years really not mentioning anything about blockchain or decentralized or any of that. And even when we listed the company, which we listed on the upstream exchange, we had to delist from that as well because it was just too challenging with a number of questions from the SEC in terms of that exchange, which was a blockchain-based exchange. And I really believe that we are going to be seeing a big shift now with the fact that we have a new administration coming in. We have a new head of the SEC coming in.
We know that what we're doing with the blockchain-based system that we have gives us a huge advantage over the current centralized education system. So what does that look like? Well, it means that we actually are building out and we've been out to tender with the partnerships a blockchain-based platform where we are going to be at every step of the way in the same way that if you were to go and Khan Academy, you get credits along the way. You get credits to actually be learning at every micro step of our micro course. And with that, those credits, the GEMs, they're actually linked to the value of Satoshis, which is a fractional unit of Bitcoin. So right now, 1,000 Satoshis equals $1. So if every step you're going through, you're getting 1,000 GEMs, you can actually then redeem them for programs for the future.
Whether you're an employee in a company that's learning about Bitcoin treasury, whether you're a student at school who's learning about how to invest in Bitcoin for the first time, our Bitcoin Academy is going to be giving you all the tools and all the steps. We're very excited. We've already gone through with Saif the idea that the book, The Bitcoin Standard, which is really the Bible for understanding why Bitcoin, that we can turn that into a micro course with his videos already that we have to make it something which people can then be rewarded in a way that as it grows. As the value of Bitcoin and Satoshis grow, so will the value of our GEMs as well, which is very exciting. We're building it on RGB, which is basically on the Lightning Network.
It gives us the opportunity to have smart contracts directly on Bitcoin without necessarily having to get onto Ethereum. And so this also is like a really exciting step for the future. And all of the different faculty members that we bring on board, they're going to be able to have their courses on this platform as well. And we're going to be doing the same again in partnership with the team at Paris Blockchain for the Blockchain Academy that we're going to be building. And later in the year, we're also building out our AI Academy off the same blockchain as well. Now, I know Suraj, you were instrumental in the early days of us actually building out the GEMs on the blockchain and the whole philosophy that the future of education is going to be decentralized.
I believe we're going to be one of the first blockchain-based education platforms in the world and really the only one that's layering on top of a Bitcoin treasury. Would love to get just your perspective of that. The company, by the way, that we've just signed up today to do that job out of all the ones that we were working with is a company called Applied Blockchain, and Applied Blockchain was referred to us by Thomas Power, one of our directors and a veteran in blockchain. They're based, like I said, in the U.K., in London. They've done incredible work for many corporations. They're going to be working with us in building out the blockchain on our platform over the next three months, so these are things that might take six months or a year. These are things that we're all putting in place in Q1 of 2025.
Would love to get just your perspective. And obviously, Gary, Gary brought also Ian Putter onto our Board. Ian Putter, some of you saw the podcast where he shared that he was the head of blockchain at Standard Bank, which is one of the biggest banks in Africa and was already applying a lot of the thought process about how do you put Bitcoins onto your balance sheet to African companies before basically joining the company he's now with here in Dubai, which itself is also a crypto company. So yeah, over to you guys.
Yeah, yeah, thanks, Roger. And I'll come to Gary shortly. But my view on that is like the Web3 layer really allows us to have the verifiable sort of on-chain credentials and reward system, which a lot of the credentials companies don't have that on blockchain.
By having it on the blockchain and by people having the rewards as well as the credentials on their own wallet makes it really solid, right? We give the control over to the users as well, which many of you know this, but many universities are having this challenge because I'm very much involved with dealing with students through the Student AI network as well, which is people have challenges even verifying the credentials of the certifications to give people admissions. What this would allow us to do by using blockchain is cut all that noise and make it really decentralized and secure. When we do it on the Rootstock network, it's going to make it even more solid, right?
And then when we integrate GEMs, which is the incentives to it, that encourages everyone to then take those GEMs and have that continuous learning on an ongoing basis as well, right? So Gary, from your point of view, you've been seeing a lot of the blockchain advocates as well as the mining community. What's your view?
Well, in the context of Genius Group, especially on the learning front, what this really does is it brings credibility, scalability, and standardization to a critical component of education. And that kind of visibility is desperately needed in the world. There's no more need for us to worry about the credibility of qualifications, etc.
Yeah. Okay. Thanks for that, Gary. I'm going to come back to you, Roger. On this particular thing, why do you pick up, first of all, Satoshi and why the importance of linking Satoshi to GEMs? How would that?
One of the things that I think people aren't really appreciating enough is the fact that when a currency goes into hyperinflation, the people that are in that currency don't necessarily appreciate just how much the currency is dropping in value. For example, when we went to Zimbabwe and there was a massive hyperinflation taking place there and you had a group that were focusing more at basically selling their Zimbabwean dollars for US dollars. At that same point, you basically had those that were working really, really hard with their Zimbabwean dollars wondering why they couldn't basically make ends meet because it was actually dropping so much in value. At that point, Zimbabwean dollar went down by over 99.9% against the US dollar.
A lot of people haven't necessarily done the math to realize that if 10 years ago, right, or just over 10 years ago, Bitcoin was at $1 and now it's at $100,000. Another way to look at that is that the US dollar has lost basically 99.999% of its value against Bitcoin, right? So talk about hyperinflation. I mean, that's massive. That means you're losing 99% of the value and you've only got basically one cent left. And then you're losing 99% of that. And then you're losing 99% of that, right? That's what it is to basically be at 0.0001. And so effectively right now, the US dollar is at one hundredth of the value that it was just a decade ago against Bitcoin.
I mean, when you realize that, then you'd be like saying, okay, no wonder the Bitcoin maximalists are saying, why would I ever buy fiat? I'll just keep my money in Bitcoin knowing that that's not slowing down. At the end of the day, the printing of money is not slowing down. And so when you know that's happening, and so when people are talking about it being at a million or even, as Michael Saylor says, $13 million, if you had ways to be earning, even if it's just credits, right, that you could be using, do you want those credits to be in fiat or do you want those credits to be in Bitcoin or in Satoshis, right? And so if you know that there used to be a time where you would need 10,000 or 100,000 Satoshis to make just $1. Today, it's 1,000.
1,000 Satoshis makes $1. If you have 1,000 GEMs and you earn those 1,000 GEMs by basically taking a micro step in our micro course and you take that one bit, right, which basically is that piece of learning, and then you've got those 1,000 GEMs, and you know that once again 10x in Bitcoin to a million will mean that $1 is now basically not 1,000 Satoshis, it's 100 Satoshis, right? Or another way to look at it is that once you have 1,000 Satoshis, it's not worth $1, it's worth $10. And then again, it becomes basically $100. And you can see that there's a real value in actually being pinned to the Bitcoin economy, the credits that you're actually earning. And again, these are just to be really clear in case there's anyone from SEC listening to this, we are not creating cryptocurrency here.
We're not giving you a chance to cash this in for cash, right? This is something that's on our platform, just like Air Miles, that you can use as a utility token on there. But the fact that it's on the Bitcoin standard means that we're actually thinking about retaining value as time goes on. And I really believe that Bitcoin standard means more than just having a Bitcoin treasury. It's about thinking in Bitcoin, right? It's thinking in the value of something which is going to continue. It's very interesting when I hear Michael Saylor talk about property in Manhattan as an example of Bitcoin. Well, if you go back, right, like a couple of hundred years, and at the point when you were effectively able to buy Manhattan land, it was more than just buying the Manhattan land.
It was the fact that the currencies that were being used to begin with in the U.S., there was a massive reaction to those currencies, the British pound, the French franc, because the monarchies could still debase those currencies. And so it was when the Americans created the US dollar for themselves. And then it could be that to begin with, if you're in Europe, you're like, what is this US dollar, right? And not really understanding that it was actually going to end up becoming the most powerful currency in the world. That's what Bitcoin is today. It's the same thing. And those who don't understand it are the ones that are going to get left behind. And so that is why we actually linked it to Satoshis. One thing I want to come back to you on, though, is you mentioned something, Suraj, about universities, right?
The fact that even getting a degree program, we hear that so many resumes do have a challenge because you go get a degree, but was it really? You have to go to the university to check? Did that degree actually even happen? Or did that person really have a certification? Obviously, it's on the blockchain. You solve all those problems. But the way that you've built out Student AI, and then we then partnered up and built that into something which now is basically offered within our platform, Student AI now has got, and that's very much AI avatars that are actually supporting. And of course, in the future, AI avatars will have a memory of you and how to personalize a pathway based on what you provide and you share. That can only work effectively if it's on the blockchain, right?
Effectively, memory, right, is blockchain, right? And so if you think about it that way, that an AI can run on rails with what you allow it to actually have as memory or not, and then that's lasting forever. And it's a matter of you holding onto that data and sharing, okay, here's the information about my company. Here's the information about my medical history. Or I'm going to go and hide that information so you can't use it. That's a very, very important part of our philosophy going forward. But you've already got basically this massive growth that we've now seen within Student AI. We've had Microsoft that basically has partnered it. We've had NVIDIA that more recently has partnered it.
Do you want to just share with everyone why it's basically become the number one student app in the world for AI learning and how once we actually build this onto the blockchain, it also levels up to a different level too?
Yeah, yeah, and it's been pretty exciting to see the entire growth because it's coming up to about a year since we launched Student AI. We have over 500 students from 500 universities and institutes using it, including some of the really big universities in the U.S. and students from there coming on board. Earlier, we partnered up with Microsoft for the Microsoft Startups, and just recently, just because exactly what you're mentioning around the blockchain and the growth of it at the AI, we are seeing a lot of demand from universities and institutes for sovereign AI, right?
We said the general AI, which is out there, Student AI has crossed the purpose of that. That's when we reached out to NVIDIA and said, can we join your Inception Program? They had a rigorous sort of check on all our systems and everything. We've joined that Inception Program now, right? Have access to a lot of those resources, which many of the startups don't, right? It really helps scale that area. The demand for that is pretty incredible. Our sort of cost per lead on that is pretty shocking when I go to see that. A lot of that has to do with it's a number one sort of AI platform for students.
If you just Google wherever you are and Google AI tools for students or AI for students, you will see we are in the top three or four sort of platforms that are showing up there. Wherever I am checking in Europe and the other parts, it's a number one, right? And there's no other platform which is providing that level of avatars along with the courses that we are providing. And now that we are going into voice, which is going from chat to voice, the demand is even getting bigger on that, right? And the adoption as well where people are getting more.
That's fantastic. Very cool. I'm not sure if you said 500 or 500,000, but the answer is 500,000 students on 500 universities, which again is pretty phenomenal. But it goes to show just how much value there is in that.
And we believe we're going to see the same with the Bitcoin courses and with the blockchain courses as well, that these are things that schools and universities are going to want to basically build into their platform as well. So this is not just about what we provide in our platform; it's how do we provide this future-focused learning for everybody. We're going to do this because there's going to be a few updates we're just going to finish up on here. We're actually going to be sent out of the entire venue soon because they're actually closing down now. So here's what I'm going to suggest. Anyone who's got any questions, drop the questions in the chat. I'm going to just run. I can see there's already three in there. So I'm just going to run through these very quickly.
If there's any others, then the team's going to come and bring them to me as well. But basically, first of all, on the ones that I'm seeing on my chat at the moment, there's one which says, great, are you going to give back shares you took from the reverse split? Okay, so first of all, reverse splits are something that we would never normally want to do. However, we also have a situation at the moment where there are limits to, if you want to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, there are limits to basically what your share price can be. Many of you know that we have had an ongoing campaign, right, in terms of our stock. I'm going to give you an update on that in a moment as well.
But as a result of that, we're not going to ever do something like that willingly. But if we actually are required to do that by New York Stock Exchange rules, I think all investors would basically agree that it's better for us to remain listed and be able to build our strategy than to delist just for the sake of the reverse split, right? So that's the first thing. In terms of giving back shares, I think anyone who looks at the record can see I personally have been buying shares on a regular basis all the way through this year. I believe in this company. I'm going to continue to do that going forward as well. The second thing is, can you give an update on our listings, earnings?
So for those who may be new investors, you may not be aware that about a year ago, we did a dividend and a spinoff of one of the companies, which is Entrepreneur Resorts. And the answer is yes. There is an update on that for those who are long-term investors, which is that the auditors are just completing their work now. We were hoping it was going to get done in November. We need that done in order for us to be able to be ready for an OTC listing. We're now told that that is all going to be within this month, right? So while it's a month behind and it has been a long time, thanks for your patience. And again, there's only a few things that we have a little control over. One of them is auditors. The other one is regulators.
We're going to do what we can do on our side, but as soon as we can move things forward with them, we do. And so the good news is at least we're getting to a point where we're going to have that all completed for those of you who are the long-term investors. The third one, which is, can you confirm current float? There's only so much we can talk about publicly here without having the disclosures. So we are going to be providing that in context also of what I mentioned earlier, which is the BTC Yield. So we're going to be doing that so you can be looking forward to that so that we have that basically in context of the current position of where we are at the moment. And then we also have a question here, thoughts on using tZERO to fight against fraudulent shares.
When we were back a year ago, we were very lucky to meet up with the entire, and a year ago, for those who may be new to our story, that was when we were on Fox Business talking about potential share manipulation. We had Wes Christian being very vocal about the court case he was working with us as well. And we met with the whole Patrick Byrne team at Overstock. And we know that tZERO had its own challenges as well. We tried Upstream Exchange.
We believe at this point, the most valuable thing we can do, 100%, is this Bitcoin treasury as part of our focus and our plan, largely because the easiest way, if you don't want to have short sellers, and you see there's people like Elon Musk and others that have had that issue on an ongoing basis, is just have more buyers and sellers, right? Have basically a business where people can see that the real value in the business is more than what the stock price might be. And people will buy. And I think the strategy we now have where we are building up a treasury, which we want to get to 1,000 Bitcoin, and we'd love to see 1,000 Bitcoin be worth $1 billion when it hits $1 million. We're on a long-term pathway towards that as we're building our education platform as well.
We'll look at all these different options. And I really believe that with this new administration, we're going to see more and more innovative approaches that become about decentralized, trust-based, transparent versus centralized, opaque, and non-transparent going forward. So I think that's really the pathway. I think those are the main questions at the moment. I will also say that there are ongoing conversations, legacy-wise, settlement talks around things like the LZGI issue and others that we will be giving updates on as we have them going forward as well. And lawsuit status, yes, this is around the Wes Christian lawsuit. Many of you know that that already was ready to file with the damages estimated at $250 million. That was done by the damages assessors.
And they are right in the midst of an update on that at the moment, which obviously means the final number, which we don't know what that's going to be, is going to be upwards of that. And we're expecting that really, according to Wes, within weeks. We will have to wait and see. I'll probably add that to the things we can't control is the speed at which the lawyers or the assessors work on these tools as well. What I will say overall is that, as with the other things that I mentioned, this is not a matter of whether things happen. It's a matter of when things happen. And absolutely, there's been certain things that have taken longer than others.
But I would say that one thing is happening faster than the things that are happening slower is this massive wave that's currently happening within the new technologies within Bitcoin. And we're riding that wave right now as well. And we want to continue to add to that wave by bringing in more students and bringing in more people that understand exactly what this is all about so they can be a part of it as well. I want to finish with a final question back to Gary and back to Suraj, which is, for everyone listening, we have new investors that have come and joined us. We have investors that have been with us right from the beginning, even before the IPO.
We've actually had quite a number of them come to our stand and share their support and get very excited about basically being on this journey with us and this new step in our strategy as we move forward. I would love for you to just share directly to our shareholders, our investors, our students, just kind of like your key takeaways or views to leave them with on this investor call.
Can I go there?
Sure.
You know, it's a simple philosophy in life. It's not about what goes wrong in life or business. It's about what do you do about it and how you tackle the challenges you face. I'm extremely proud of the Board, Roger, the way that they are tackling the challenges from the past and still driving forward at lightning speed into the future, laying new foundations for something that's very exciting.
We really are at the beginning of something that is profound. And the world is going to be quite surprised to see what actually comes out of this whole blockchain Bitcoin revolution. We get to see behind the curtain here in these kind of events, whereas most people are just listening to the noise in the market, you're not actually getting the real news. We're seeing it. It's very exciting. And we're right at the forefront of this incredible movement.
Yeah, thanks, Gary, for that. And what I'll add is, for everyone who's listening in, and if you're not into the Bitcoin space or crypto space, you don't have to worry because that's what our aim is in January when we launch the academy. We are getting the top experts onto our platform, delivering those courses. These are like big names within the industry itself.
And for us to have the front row sort of not even seat like title sponsorship at all these events, positions Genius in such a great way that we attract the experts at the same time, bring our community along with us on this journey, which is around the entire Web3, AI, and the blockchain and crypto space, right? So we are upskilling our community at the same time, along with maximizing the growth that we are seeing. Back to you, Roger.
Yeah, thank you very much. And I totally agree with everything that you've said. And just the fact we all got together here, I highly recommend and invite anyone listening in that wants to come to any of the events where we're going to be. We're all here in person, and we've got our Genius Zone booth here as well.
Would love to connect with you and see you as well. And I would just finish with two things. The first one is we were super appreciative at the time when we, after we listed, we weren't quite vocal about what we saw happening to our share price about the company by the number of new investors that came and joined us. And it's a tough ride because if you basically are bringing in many investors and you have potentially traders out there that are shorting the shares and so on, there's nothing they like more than new retail investors that come and basically join because that creates the volume that allows them to potentially do more if they have deeper pockets. And again, this is all part of the contents of Wes Christian's lawsuit.
But there's also a challenge with that, which is that obviously if you then are building the business and the share price is still dropping, the management itself and the CEO gets blamed for the fact that this is actually happening. What's really interesting about the whole community within Bitcoin, and this is incredible in terms of all the CEOs, everyone we're working with, most of the CEOs that I was interviewing when I was learning all about all these challenges with small caps a year ago, most of them aren't there anymore. They've either lost their job or they lost their business or they're delisted, which is, on the one hand, it's a real shame, not just for them, the company, and all the shareholders, but for all of us in general in terms of the fact that we're all looking at ways we can create value and build.
Here within this Bitcoin community, what you have is everyone seeing there's a whole new world, which is much more of an abundance and a scarcity mindset. Even if your share price goes down, Bitcoin is like, oh, look, buying opportunity. It's a whole different mindset. It's also about the fact that everyone wants to work with everyone because they're not competing with each other. They're competing against the system. They're all looking at what is the world going to look like going forward. That brings me on to the second part. So I'm saying that to all of you who are shareholders and you're on board, not just for basically how much there's capital appreciation in investing in Genius, but also there's also the support of Genius for what we can do to impact the world as well.
The second part, which has been really a very big eye-opener being here, is that while there are many people we meet, they're wearing T-shirts, they're wearing jeans, and they're multi-multi-millionaires because they got into Bitcoin early. They're not thinking about the money. They're thinking about the difference they can make. The CEOs that are here are saying, okay, how can we work together to grow this? I'll give you one example of that. There's basically George Mekhail, who is the head of Bitcoin Magazine. He has now launched Bitcoin for Corporations, which is supported by MicroStrategy. So MicroStrategy basically supported it financially and said, look, if you guys can figure out a way to really support growth of information and education to corporations about Bitcoin, we want to support that.
So actually now talking with them about how we can build out what they want to achieve with what we're looking to achieve, we're all aligned with this future we're going to. So here's the interesting thing. With everything we've done on the AI side and all the people we met on that side where they're saying, hey, we want to teach about the technology. And obviously within Bitcoin, there's a lot of technology that people need to learn as well. There's a second area, which is the ones who are looking at, okay, what are the financial mechanisms by which, as a corporation or even as an individual, you can get involved in this whole growth area of Bitcoin, of blockchain, of Web3 technologies. But those are two aspects out of three: the technology side, the financial side.
And of course, you need to master both and understand how they're different from the old systems. But the third part, which actually is the one that impacts all of us and definitely impacts our kids, is what does this mean for humanity in the future? How do we educate ourselves not just to learn about these technologies or learn about these financial systems, but how do we do this in such a way that we also learn about who we are and what we do in this post-AGI future? We were joking about the fact that if you take MAGA, right, like anyone who basically is following what's happening in America, in fact, anyone in the world understands MAGA. And if you take AGI and say, what do you combine MAGA and AGI? Well, you end up with MAGI. And MAGI, M-A-G-I, basically is the genie, right?
It's basically the part in us which actually makes our dreams come true. And this is about how do we go from our day's work to our life's work, educating people not just on the technology, but okay, what are you going to do when the money's making itself, right? What are you going to do when it's not about the money? Or what are you going to do when it's about basically AI potentially taking your day job? How do you turn your day's job into your life's job, right? Like how do you take your day's work into your life's work? And that's about, okay, what are your passions? What are your purpose? And I think that's one of the things we're most excited about this next year is basically not just giving people the information, but also giving them the self-awareness about themselves.
Obviously, that's what we're known for. We have a Passion Test. We have the Purpose Test. We have the Genius Test, which are all things about self-discovery, which enable us to become better versions of ourselves. That for us is really the reason we started the company, is why it's called Genius Group. It comes from that quote, which is, everyone is born a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it'll go through its whole life believing it's stupid, right? The days are over when we're in a centralized education system where we're all focusing on our weakness, but we should be in a decentralized system where we can all focus on our strengths. That's what we're committed to doing.
And if along the way, we can turn ourselves into a billion-dollar business, well, then that's just the added benefit to all our shareholders, as well as for the students that come on board and become shareholders too. So I want to say a big thank you to everyone who's come and joined us. If you've enjoyed this space, please do post. We're in experimental mode. So if we find that there's enough people that find this useful, then we'll continue with this medium. If we find there's other ways to do it, which actually work better, we'll do that too. But the most important thing is we'll keep on providing communication as we build out our plan over the coming year. All right, so thanks very much, everyone, for tuning in. Thanks, Suraj. Thanks, Gary, for being part of this talk.
We'll see you all on our next semester. All right, thank you. Thanks.